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Poor (in a figurative sense) Ilhan Omar. People are always picking on her, when it’s very obvious that some people put some zeroes in some places that caused her to be accused of some kind of insane explosion of wealth for her and her husband. However, she is telling us the “real story” that it was actually an accounting error that led people to believe she and her husband had amassed 30 million dollars of wealth, and their true value is under $100,000. If you believe this tall tale, there are some great unbombed Iranian bridges for sale at this writing.
To listen to Omar tell it, she is always the victim and never the perpetrator. If she had a theme song, it would be, “Why’s everybody always picking on me?” She is responsible for introducing the MEALS Act (Modifying Essential Access to Lunch for Students) inside a larger act (CARES Act), which set the table for over 1 billion dollars to be stolen from American taxpayers through the now defunct Feeding Our Future non-profit company.
In hearings, federal prosecutors have asserted that Feeding Our Future accounted for at least $300 million in fraud, with false meal claims, fake invoices, and kickbacks. It’s obvious that Somali pirates don’t just operate on the high seas. In all fairness, these same federal prosecutors have not accused Omar of fraud; however, her campaign did receive $7,400 from individuals convicted in the Feeding our Future scam and when this was revealed, her campaign did return the funds to donors.
Like or hate the woman, she must be given credit for her ability to discover loopholes in government bureaucracy and use the system to benefit herself and her supporters. She has been credited with realizing that Minnesota, with Governor Tim at the helm, was a very ripe place for Somalians to settle and exploit lax enforcement of federal dollars, which has also led to her being placed in a position of power as a member of Congress.
As media and other members of Congress (and even President Trump) called for investigations of her for a variety of allegations, including lying on immigration forms, being married to her brother, and having her wealth skyrocket to 30 million dollars in a short period of time, she has denied everything. Her most recent alibi about the 30 million dollar wealth claim is that it was an accounting oversight and the glaring discrepancy “didn’t jump off the page.” I think that the difference between having 30 million dollars vs under $100,000 would “jump off the page to most rational individuals, don’t you? So, despite being quite astute about being able to manipulate legislation that led to a billion dollars of fraud ending up in the pockets of many Somali immigrants, she claimed ignorance and recently amended her disclosure of her and her husband’s assets, which she now claims to be between $18,000 and $95,000. Perhaps she’ll start a GoFundMe account because this is almost at the poverty level.
When I first heard about this story and the excuses made by the congresswoman, it brought me back to the movie Brewster’s Millions, which was a 1985 movie starring Richard Pryor. The premise of the comedy is about a minor league baseball player, Monty Brewster, who is given the opportunity to gain an inheritance of 300 million dollars by spending 30 million dollars in 30 days without showing any assets. The fact that Monty Brewster and Ilhan Omar needed to make the exact amount of 30 million dollars disappear, albeit for different reasons, is definitely a textbook case of irony. Yet, this is where the similarity ends. In Monty Brewster’s case, he is successful and the movie has a happy ending and he gets the 300 million dollar inheritance. He does it legally and complies with the terms of the will that granted him this opportunity.
Ilhan Omar, on the other hand, may not have the same happy ending as Monty Brewster. How is it remotely possible that a savvy politician would not immediately correct stories reporting her net worth being $30 million, when it is just $95,000? How is it that a savvy politician would introduce legislation that would allow $250 million in state funds to allegedly be pocketed by Salim Ahmed Said, who just happened to be the co-owner of the Safari Restaurant, which is where Omar held her 2018 congressional victory party? Said was convicted in March of using the fraudulently obtained funds to support an extremely lavish lifestyle that included a $2 million dollar mansion. If something smells bad here, it must be the odor of Somali cooking (of the books).
In addition to Omar’s dubious dealings, her husband Tim Mynett (jokingly referred to as “Timmy My net worth” by podcaster Trish Regan) is also involved in numerous questionable business dealings, which include a SLAY news report that stated the following about a winery they own: “In 2024, they made about $15,000, and in 2025 it exploded to up to $5 million dollars…“Yet, they weren’t producing any wine.” The report went on to say that there was no business license for the winery. When confronted with these allegations, they are not happy campers, and either refuse to answer the questions of reporters or express anger at the accusations. If they were to produce a movie about this, it could be titled: The Grapes of Wrath.
In a 2023 lawsuit, Mynett was also accused of promising a 200% return on a $300,000 investment in the winery and not paying until legal action was filed. To further complicate this financial puzzle, House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer noted that Mynatt’s firm, Rose Lake Capital, was previously valued at $1,000 but unexplainably surged to $25 million in the initial 2024 report.
Spokeswoman for Omar, Jacklyn Rogers, stated that Omar is not a millionaire and her legal team made the following written statement, “As the busiest of people, it is very common for members and their spouses to rely on learned professionals like accountants to make calculations and determinations.” Yes, and I’m sure these “learned (or perhaps, leared) professionals” are subject to making errors in the amount of tens of millions of dollars for all their clients. Maybe they learned accounting at the Learing School of Finance.
She’d have been better off with TurboTax.
Recently, Omar has gone on the offensive and one of her targets is investigative, independent journalist Nick Shirley. When Shirley made statements about Omar’s suspicious net worth, she, of course, made it personal and said, “His efforts are creepy harassment, creating a cloud of suspicion unfairly at minorities.” He responded by calling her “the queen of fraud.”
It should be interesting to see how all of this plays out if republicans can stop making threats and actually prosecute someone who has been accused of numerous infractions. We will see if making multiple excuses and playing the poor Somali victim card will be enough to prevent her ouster from Congress, or maybe she’ll find new accommodations in federal prison or possibly be the recipient of a one way ticket back to the place she has sworn allegiance to as a member of Congress: Somalia.
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