Forbes Media Chairman Steve Forbes delivered a blistering on-air assessment of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) during a live appearance on Fox Business, raising serious questions about the source of her sudden wealth and calling for a formal investigation into her finances and her husband’s business ventures.
Forbes focused in particular on a California winery listed in Omar’s recent financial disclosures, an asset valued at $5 million that he suggested may not even exist.
“Weird is not the word for it,” Forbes said during the segment.
“There’s another word for it called crooked.
“That’s why we have to have an investigation into this.”
The comments come as scrutiny intensifies over Omar’s financial filings, which show her household net worth skyrocketing from under $1,000 to estimates as high as $30 million in roughly a year.
Much of that wealth is tied to ventures associated with her husband, Tim Mynett, including an investment firm known as Rose Lake and the California winery listed at multimillion-dollar valuations.
Forbes questioned how such wealth could materialize so rapidly.
“It’s amazing how people can go into Congress and then become these entrepreneurial investing geniuses,” he said.
“She had under a thousand dollars of net worth, and her husband didn’t have much.
“And suddenly now they’re multimillionaires.”
The Fox Business discussion zeroed in on the winery disclosed by Omar, which Forbes notes appears to lack any public footprint.
Despite posing as a multi-million-dollar business, Omar’s “winery,” eStCru LLC, doesn’t have an address, a phone number, active social media accounts, or even any available options to purchase wine.
In addition, a website domain for the company, estcru.co, is “expired” and returns an error.
“That winery in California that she and her husband own, where did that come from?” Forbes asked.
“Where’s the wine there?
“And nobody can seem to find it,” Forbes said.
“I’ll make a speculation and prediction that $30 million came from sources that are illegal, period.”
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Omar has denied any wrongdoing, arguing that her financial disclosures reflect broad valuation ranges required under federal law and that critics are misrepresenting the figures for political reasons.
She has said she has not been contacted by investigators and insists the assets were properly reported.
No criminal charges have been filed.
However, House Republicans have launched oversight inquiries, and President Donald Trump has publicly suggested that federal authorities are examining Omar’s finances.
“We’re going to get answers, whether it’s through the Ethics Committee or the Oversight Committee, one of the two,” Rep. James Comer (R-KY) told The New York Post last week.
Omar, a Somali-American refugee who reported negative net worth when first elected to Congress, and Mynett have seen their reported household wealth surge in recent years, according to official filings.
In her 2024 disclosure, their combined assets were listed in a range spanning from roughly $6 million to $30 million.
It marks a dramatic increase that has fueled questions about how such wealth could be accumulated while Omar earns a congressional salary.
Much of the valuation stems from Mynett’s business interests, including the California winery and a Washington, D.C.-based venture capital firm, Rose Lake Capital, which saw its reported value jump sharply in a short period of time.
Trump has gone further, suggesting Omar’s net worth could exceed $40 million and alleging financial misconduct.
Omar has forcefully rejected the claims as politically motivated and baseless.
However, she has not provided any evidence to counter the allegations.
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