Rep. Ilhan Omar’s husband, Tim Mynett, is caught in a whirlwind of suspicion as his venture capital outfit, Rose Lake Capital, mysteriously wipes nine key names from its website while a massive welfare fraud scandal rocks Minnesota, Breitbart reported.
This story boils down to a billion-dollar fraud scheme, ties to Omar’s circle, and a digital disappearing act by Mynett’s firm that’s raising eyebrows across the political spectrum.
Let’s start at the beginning: Tim Mynett, married to Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), launched Rose Lake Capital back in 2022.
Almost overnight, the firm’s value reportedly skyrocketed from next to nothing to somewhere between $5 million and $25 million, per recent reports.
That kind of rapid ascent might impress Wall Street, but it also invites questions about how such wealth accumulates so fast.
Meanwhile, Omar’s own net worth has allegedly jumped from a modest $51,000 to a staggering $30 million in just one year, a figure she disputes but one that’s tied to Mynett’s ventures, including a winery alongside this venture capital firm, according to the New York Post.
Now, let’s pivot to the bigger storm brewing in Minnesota, where federal prosecutors have charged eight more individuals, six of Somali descent, in a welfare fraud scheme described as the largest of the pandemic, totaling over $1 billion in stolen taxpayer funds.
Omar herself has deep connections to organizations and individuals implicated in these cases, even hosting events at Safari Restaurant in Minneapolis, a venue linked to the investigations.
The owners of Safari, Salim Said and Aimee Bock, have already been convicted in the Feeding Our Future case, which siphoned off $250 million in child food aid from the state.
Amid this legal firestorm, between September and October, Rose Lake Capital scrubbed the names and bios of nine officers and advisors from its public website, a move that smells like damage control to many observers.
Among those erased are heavy hitters like Adam Ereli, a lobbyist and former Obama ambassador, and Max Baucus, another Obama-era ambassador, alongside DNC-linked figures like Alex Hoffman and William Derrough.
Even Keith Mestrich, ex-CEO of Amalgamated Bank, vanished from the site, a man who once boasted of his institution as “the institutional bank of the Democratic Party,” per his own words.
While none of the nine removed from the website face charges in the fraud, the timing of this digital purge—right as new indictments dropped—hardly seems coincidental.
Critics also point to Omar’s legislative record, noting she pushed policies that some argue opened the door for what federal authorities call a historic fraud, as reported by the New York Post.
Rep. Randy Fine (R-FL), never one to mince words, has even proposed a resolution to expel Omar and slammed Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (D-MN), declaring he “should be in jail” for his handling of the issue.
