The probe of “Squad” Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D-Minn.) husband Tim Mynett and his shady business ventures could go global.
House Oversight Chairman Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.) wants the House Ethics Committee to look beyond the US at Mynett’s failed business ventures and include places such as Somalia, Kenya and the United Arab Emirates.
Mynett’s investment firm Rose Lake Capital wanted to build solar panels in Africa and his main business partner received a $10,699 air ticket to Dubai after talks about a deal there, The Post has reported.
Those international business dealings make up just part of a shrouded array of business ventures that prompted Somalia-born Omar to disclose a jump in assets from virtually nothing to as much as $30 million, federal filings show. Her 2024 disclosure lists Rose Lake Capital as being worth between $5 million and $25 million.
The family’s skyrocketing net worth came as the multi-billion Somali social services scandal unfolded in Omar’s district, and as Rose Lake scrubbed key information from its site, including the list of its officers as The Post reported.
Comer’s committee initially spearheaded the probe and in a Feb. 5 letter to Mynett, demanded he turn over “all documents and communications” by anyone affiliated with either Rose Lake Capital LLC or his failed California winery eStCru LLC related to travel “to the United Arab Emirates, Somalia or Kenya, or travel undertaken to solicit business connected to those countries. This includes the dates of travel, the individuals who traveled, and the stated purpose of each trip.”
“She needs to explain to the American people how her net worth went from zero to $10 million in one year, and explain why the Biden Department of Justice was investigating her husband’s financial activities over the course of that year, where her net worth ballooned up,” Comer said on NewsNation’s “Katie Pavlich Tonight” Wednesday night.
Mynett has until Feb. 19 to respond to the request and has not yet done so. He did not respond to a request for comment by The Post.
Comer asked House Ethics panel chair Rep. Michael Guest to pick up the probe, which his own members insisted they were better suited to do.
“Ethics is the proper committee to investigate members,” Rep. Anthony Garbarino (R-NY), an Ethics member, told The Post.
An Omar spokesperson, Jackie Rogers, called Comer’s letter to the lawmaker’s husband a “political stunt” and claimed it was part of a “smear campaign.”
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