Congressional investigators are preparing for a court fight as they seek to use every tool at their disposal to unravel how “Squad” Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and her hubby Tim Mynett came to be worth up to $30 million in just a few years.
The goal, House Oversight Chairman Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) told The Post, is “to win in court” while finding out what caused the “big spike” in Omar’s net worth.
He warned that “everybody’s lawyered up in these investigations” – during a week where his committee took a break from its probe of Minnesota health care fraud to vote to hold Bill and Hillary Clinton in contempt for declining to comply with a committee subpoena in a separate Jeffrey Epstein probe.
“If you want to win in court – there’s people that do stunts,” he explained. “You have to give people an opportunity to come in first.”
Comer, who told The Post last week he was considering subpoenaing Omar’s politically connected husband Tim Mynett, said a key factor is whether Mynett’s businesses are jointly owned with Omar. It isn’t clear from business records that they are, and Omar has not disclosed a personal ownership stake on her disclosure forms, although she did report his assets and income, as required by federal statute.
“A lot of people’s eyebrows raised really high when they saw the $30 million range when it was dramatically lower just a few years ago,” Majority Leader Rep. Steve Scalise (R-La.) told The Post.
Very little is known about two companies, financial firm Rose Lake Capital and winery eStCru, that together showed a sudden surge in Omar’s wealth from virtually nothing to up to $30 million. Mynett’s stake in Rose Lake alone rocketed from being worth nothing to up to $25 million in just a year, according to Omar’s 2024 financial disclosure.
“Somebody’s going to find out. It’s either going to be my committee or the Ethics Committee,” Comer said.
Even as they push for information, Republican lawmakers are worried about potential blowback. “We all live in glass houses, so to speak. I don’t, but my party does,” said Rep. Pete Sessions (R-Tex.), who chairs the Government Operations panel on the Oversight Committee.
After The Post’s report on Omar’s sudden wealth last week, President Trump said she “should be in jail.” Omar has not been criminally charged. He brought Somali-born Omar up again during his speech confronting European leaders in Davos Wednesday.
“And then we have this fake congressperson, who they just reported is worth $30 million. You believe this? Ilhan Omar talking about the Constitution that provides me . . . she comes from a country that’s not a country, and she’s telling us how to run America. Not going to get away with it much longer, let me tell you,” Trump said.
If Trump was referencing a federal investigation, a law enforcement source this week spoke to the challenges. “Yes it’s being probed. But I don’t think anything is going to happen,” said the source. “It’s going to be fairly tough to prove anything linked to her.”
Comer said he is still sorting through jurisdictional issues of which congressional body has the power to try to force documents and testimony from him.
Back in 2016, Kentucky Republican Rep. Ed Whitfield resigned from Congress after a damning Ethics Committee probe found that he had “dispensed special privileges” for his lobbyist wife, Constance Harriman. The panel, which has its own subpoena power, interviewed 11 witnesses – including the congressman and his wife – and reviewed 140,000 pages of material.
The man who was elected to fill his seat? Kentucky’s then-state agriculture commissioner, James Comer.
The Post reached out to Omar and to Mynett for comment on his companies and wife’s financial filings.
