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Somali math: Ilhan Omar disputes $30M net worth, claims assets of $95K in amended filing

April 18, 2026 | | Print Article

Claiming her actions were made “voluntarily,” a Democratic lawmaker faced with a federal probe filed a new financial disclosure with a dramatic adjustment to her potential $30 million net worth.

Protests and initiatives from the left have shown top priorities to include defending open borders and safeguarding the flow of taxpayer dollars to support what many suspect to be massive fraud operations. With her constituency tied to both, Minnesota Rep. Ilhan Omar (D) took a step to dispel suggestions that she was surreptitiously profiting, claiming a “discrepancy” was behind a difference of millions in net worth.

“The amended disclosure confirms what we’ve said all along: The congresswoman is not a millionaire,” said spokesperson Jacklyn Rogers to The Wall Street Journal. “The congresswoman amended her disclosures voluntarily as soon as the discrepancy was identified.”

According to the amended filing, the assets of Omar and her husband, Tim Mynett, fell between $18,004 and $95,000 while their income landed between $102,503 and $1,005,200 for 2024.

Omar’s 2023 financial disclosure had indicated the Rose Lake Capital firm that Mynett and business partner Will Hailer, formed in 2022, had less than $1,000 in assets, only to jump in value to between $5 million and $25 million in a single year while claiming management of $60 billion in assets.

Mynett also listed a stake in a winery, eStCru LLC, with assets listed between $1 million and $5 million after the previous disclosure valued it between $15,000 and $50,000.

Further, Rogers’ statement appeared to brush off the fact that Omar received a letter from the Office of Congressional Conduct (OCC) about the disclosures and, as was reported earlier this year, both the House Oversight Committee and federal investigators had opened investigations into Omar’s financials, particularly in light of the rampant fraud uncovered among the Somali community of her state.

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“They are probing Squad member Ilhan Omar’s skyrocketing family wealth,” Fox News senior national correspondent Kevin Corke had told host Jesse Watters, “especially in the wake of that $9 billion — some would argue $19 billion — Somali social services fraud scandal that exploded in her district in Minnesota.”

An attorney for Omar told the OCC, “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 that appear on public filings.”

“While the error is of course unfortunate,” the attorney added, “there is nothing untoward and nothing illegal has occurred.”

Additional concerns resurfaced this week when a January interview of Iowa Sen. Joni Ernst (R) made the rounds with her telling Fox Business host Stuart Varney, “One of our spending bills making its way through Congress was a $1 million earmark from Representative Ilhan Omar of Minnesota, which was an earmark that was supposedly going to a substance abuse clinic, which actually happened to be housed in a restaurant and run by three individuals that share the same residential address, according to their IRS paperwork.”

As for the Journal’s framing of the “discrepancy” as a mere “accounting error,” users on social media weren’t buying it.

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