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Ilhan Omar’s husband’s wine company has been officially DISSOLVED amid scrutiny

April 27, 2026 | | Print Article

Amid scandals and investigations of Rep. Ilhan Omar’s finances, a California winery co-owned by her husband has reportedly shut down.

California business records revealed that the Santa Rosa winery ceased operations earlier this month, soon after House Republicans began questioning Omar’s net worth. The Minnesota Democrat’s husband, Tim Mynett, reportedly owned a stake in eStCru Wines, which abruptly shut its doors on April 4.

“The people at the address didn’t even know what we were talking about when we went out there because it never existed in that location,” independent journalist Nick Sortor told Fox News’ Kayleigh McEnany. “And it’s awfully coincidental that only days after her accounting error of millions of dollars, that this entity, this wine company, ends up being dissolved.”

“Financial disclosure forms, filed by your wife Representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, show eStCru LLC and Rose Lake Capital LLC, which you hold ownership stakes in, went from being worth as much as $51,000 in 2023 to as much as $30 million in 2024,” House Oversight Chair James Comer (R-KY) wrote in a letter to Omar’s husband back in February, referring to the winery founded in 2021 and a Washington, D.C.-based venture capital firm that Mynett co-founded in 2022.

“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,” the letter to the political consultant continued.

But Omar brushed away the apparent discrepancies, citing an accounting error for the difference in numbers, and also claiming her husband’s assets were between $18,004 and $95,000 as opposed to the 2024 financial disclosure filing of between $6 million and $30 million.

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“The winery’s short existence was marked by scandal, despite being named ‘hot brand of the year’ in 2022. By early 2023, its winemakers said they had stopped getting paid, and the brand was no longer advertising on social media,” the New York Post reported. “It was hit with several fraud allegations and lawsuits from investors, according to a 2024 report in the Minnesota Reformer. Former employees also told the newspaper that they hadn’t been paid.”

“There’s a lot more questions than answers here,” Sortor told McEnany. “Where did that millions and millions of dollars go? Did it get loaded into suitcases and head off to Somalia?”

Social media users had plenty to say as well.

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