Comer Says Omar Husband’s Winery Closed After Fraud Allegations

House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer says a California winery co-owned by Rep. Ilhan Omar’s husband closed after allegations that it sold investors empty wine barrels. Comer discussed the winery over the weekend on Fox News’ “Sunday Night in America” with Trey Gowdy.

“I can tell you from our initial investigation of Omar and her financial disclosure form that there are multiple fronts where you could get a search warrant issued,” Comer told the Fox News host. “First of all, not only was there a huge discrepancy in the financial disclosure form, there was the winery that was the big base of her $25 million listing on her financial disclosure form. That winery has, according to the press, been shut down because of fraud.”

The winery, eStCru, was co-owned by Omar’s husband, Tim Mynett, and ceased operations in April. Attorneys for Mynett and his business partner told the Minnesota Reformer, “Any suggestion that Will or Tim deliberately defrauded investors or otherwise consciously conspired to rip people off would be false and defamatory.”

The winery’s closure has renewed scrutiny of Omar’s financial disclosures as federal authorities pursue a separate immigration-document investigation. Earlier this month, agents searched her Washington, D.C., residence. The inquiry concerns allegations that Omar and her father misstated her age in connection with her citizenship; Omar and her supporters have rejected the claims and called the investigation politically motivated.

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Federal investigators have obtained Rep. Ilhan Omar’s DNA and personal passport as part of the immigration probe, Fox News reported Tuesday. The report did not say how authorities obtained the DNA or disclose any test results. The New York Post separately reported that the sample could be relevant to longstanding allegations about Omar’s 2009 marriage to Ahmed Nur Said Elmi, which Omar has denied.

Comer’s committee has also questioned the change in value Omar reported for her stake in eStCru. In a February letter to Mynett, Comer noted that Omar’s 2023 disclosure “lists a stake in your winery eStCru worth between $15,001 and $50,000.” The next year’s form showed the stake “worth between $1,000,001 and $5,000,000.”

“There are serious public concerns about how your businesses increased so dramatically in value only a year after reporting very limited assets,” the letter stated. Omar told The Wall Street Journal in mid-April that she and her husband together hold less than $100,000.

The winery was founded in California in 2020 and was later named one of Wine Business magazine’s “Hot Brands of 2022.” A House Oversight Committee spokesperson told Fox News Digital that the panel had referred the matter involving Mynett to the House Ethics Committee. “Regarding the investigation into her spouse, the House Oversight Committee referred the matter months ago to the House Ethics Committee and encouraged it to do its job and review the concerning allegations,” the spokesperson said. The Ethics Committee has not taken up the case.

The winery allegations have also drawn attention amid Minnesota’s wider fraud scandals. In a separate case, prosecutors have pursued dozens of defendants in the Feeding Our Future child-nutrition fraud, which involved roughly $250 million in federal funds. In May, Aimee Bock, the convicted founder of Feeding Our Future, alleged Omar knew more about the scheme than she has acknowledged. Those allegations are separate from the winery inquiry.