WASHINGTON – A congressional investigative panel on Friday requested financial documents from companies owned by Rep. Ilhan Omar’s husband after President Donald Trump’s insinuations that a sharp rise in the value of those enterprises may be the result of fraud.
Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., the chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, has asked the lawmaker’s husband, Tim Mynett, to turn over a wide variety of documents.
Those include emails, filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission and other information – including all related to any travel to Somalia, Kenya or the United Arab Emirates undertaken by anyone affiliated with Mynett’s companies.
“Given that these companies do not publicly list their investors or where their money comes from, this sudden jump in value raises concerns that unknown individuals may be investing to gain influence with your wife,” Comer wrote Mynett. “Media reports further suggest that you may have raised money from investors using misleading information, meaning some of those funds may have been obtained improperly.”
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The companies in question are a winery in California called eStCru and an international consulting firm called Rosel Lake Capital.
“This is all a political stunt,” a spokesperson for Omar said. “These sham accusations are talking points meant to fundraise, not real oversight.”
The spokesperson said the investigation into Mynett’s companies and the lawmaker’s finances “is an attempt to orchestrate a smear campaign against the congresswoman” and suggested that Comer should instead look at Trump and his family “enriching their net worth by billions of dollars.”
According to financial disclosure forms filed annually by members of Congress that list assets, income and liabilities in broad ranges, Mynett’s companies skyrocketed in value between 2023 and 2024, catching Trump’s attention.
In 2023, Omar’s financial disclosure form (filed in 2024) showed modest outside income and assets, and credit card and student loan debt worth between $45,000 and $150,000. That disclosure form also listed Mynett as having an interest in eStCru worth between $200 and $1,000.
Mynett also listed an asset interest in Rose Lake Capital, which describes itself on its web site as a company with vast international experience whose expertise includes “structuring deals, mergers and acquisitions, debt structuring and capital raising.” The company was listed as being valued at between $15,000 to $50,000.
A year later, on Omar’s 2024 financial disclosure form (filed in 2025), Rose Lake Capital was listed as being worth $5 million and $25 million. And the winery in California was listed at being valued at between $1 million and $5 million.
A spokesperson for the congresswoman had previously said the attacks on Omar’s finances were “inaccurate.”
“She does not have millions in the bank,” the spokesperson said. “The financial disclosure clearly shows that the income her husband received (from Rose Lake Capital) did not exceed $15,000.”
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The financial disclosures show Mynett received between $15,000 and $50,000 from that business in 2023 and no revenue from Rose Lake Capital in 2024.
The spokesperson also said the valuation of the companies in question “reflects the full cost assessment of the businesses, in which her husband is one of several partners, and does not reflect her husband’s individual share.”
Comer’s request for documents may precede the issuance of subpoenas to force their delivery. Comer has investigated other Trump political foes, including former President Joe Biden and his family members, and is also conducting an investigation into fraud in social service programs in Minnesota.
Trump has also said the Justice Department is investigating Omar’s finances and escalated his ongoing feud with the Somali-born congresswoman this week.
On Truth Social, Trump insinuated, without proof, that Omar was linked to terrorists. He reposted a link to a news report about U.S. forces striking ISIS-Somalia leaders, adding a caption that said, “Was Ihan Omar there to protect her corrupt homeland?”
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