Ilhan Omar's New Magic Filing Trick: $30M Disappears Faster Than Her Principles

In a stunning performance that would have any stage magician green with envy, the amazing sudden wealth of Democrat Representative Ilhan Omar (MN-05) has evaporated, like dandelion fluff on a windy summer's day.

The Squad member claims that the $30 million in wealth supposedly in the hands of her and her husband was just a mistake in accounting records.

Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., said she is not a millionaire and blamed a major accounting error after a congressional financial disclosure listing her assets as high as $30 million drew scrutiny from Republicans and a congressional watchdog.

An amended filing reviewed by The Wall Street Journal shows Omar and her husband’s assets were between $18,004 and $95,000, a sharp drop from an earlier disclosure that estimated their holdings between $6 million and $30 million.

"The amended disclosure confirms what we’ve said all along: The congresswoman is not a millionaire," Omar spokesperson Jacklyn Rogers told the Journal, adding that the filing was corrected "as soon as the discrepancy was identified."

 

Uh huh.

Now, from (let's be fair) between $8 million and $30 million, to somewhere between $18,004 (seems oddly specific) and $95,000, that's quite a mistake. Any accountant making a mistake that grand should be discharged. Also, are we to believe that Ilhan Omar and her venture capitalist husband never saw the initial report, which was horrendously in error? Are we really supposed to believe that? Imagine your accountant coming to you with paperwork showing your net worth at $30 million - wouldn't you stop and say, "Hey, wait just a doggone minute here, I'm not that rich!"

Sorry, Ms. Omar, but my horse squeeze detector is off the scale right now.

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Remember, her husband is still facing serious questions about his business and his business associates.

A longtime Democratic operative who worked for top party figures before jumping into private ventures with the now-husband of Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., Tim Mynett, is back in the spotlight as swindling allegations resurface and Congress investigates Omar's skyrocketing net worth via her husband's companies, according to her financial disclosures.

William Hailer and Mynett, who met working for now-Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison when he was in Congress, were both political operatives before they turned to venture capitalism and the wine industry. Hailer was a senior advisor to former Democratic National Committee Chairman Tom Perez and also has an extensive history working for Ellison, who was the DNC co-chair. Between consulting fees and reimbursements, Hailer raked in over $250,000 advising the DNC and Ellison, according to FEC filings.

Here's the onion:

Through these business ventures, which include wine and cannabis, Hailer left a trail of fraud and swindling allegations tied to eSt Ventures, which was co-founded by Hailer and Mynett, and the subsequently formed Badlands Fund, which was created to control another investment fund that the pair also created called Badlands Ventures.

Uh huh.

Now, even a rabid leftie like Ilhan Omar is entitled to due process, which in her case would seem to be a Congressional investigation into her sudden wealth - and its even more sudden evaporation. Now, the world of venture capital and high finance isn't a world I've ever moved in, not when I have to take a look at our bank balances before dropping $200 worth of diesel fuel into my pickup. But this sure smells fishy to me. This whole thing, an "accounting error" that amounted to tens of millions, the fact that wasn't noticed by Rep. Omar and her husband, who had to know they weren't really that rich, and now the sudden resolution?

I'm not buying it.