Posted on 06/27/2024 2:48:26 AM PDT by Libloather
Rep. Ilhan Omar is facing a new ethics complaint alleging she did not report tens of thousands of dollars in assets from her husband's weed and alcohol business.
Since Omar and Tim Mynett, a Democratic operative, wed in 2020, there has been scrutiny over his business ventures.
Now, there is a scathing new complaint against Mynett following a Minnesota Reformer report. It states that he is being sued for failing to properly pay back his business investors.
It calls on the Office of Congressional Ethics (OCE) to launch a 'preliminary inquiry' before referring the matter to the House Ethics Committee.
Mynett's business partner Will Hailer secured a $300,000 investment from D.C. restaurateur Naeem Mohd to start a wine business, eStCru, in 2021.
The pair promised to triple Mohd's investment in just 18 months. Hailer and Mynett had founded consulting firm E Street Group - which the Omar campaign paid $3 million in 2020 - together.
They'd been paid in grapes by a former client and hired a respected Sonoma winemaker to turn that into wine they would sell, then pay back Mohd $900,000.
They promised that if they didn't pay Mohd $900,000 in a year and a half, they would take on a 10 percent monthly interest, according to a contract obtained by the reformer.
However, Mynett and Hailer only paid Mohd $300,000, about a month late, according to according to a lawsuit filed on behalf of Mohd.
The pair's winemaker, Erica Stancliff, said she stopped getting paid in early 2023 and was forced to resign after months without pay.
Around the same time - April 2023 - Hailer and Mynett's other companies agreed to pay $1.7 million to three South Dakota marijuana entrepreneurs after a lawsuit alleging fraud and breach of contract.
The pair only paid $500,000 and agreed...
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Democrats hate business and hate America. Of course they are going to cheat on their taxes (and cheat their customers and investors too).
Why would you she report any of it? It’s not like she’s going to get in trouble.
I thought alcohol was prohibited to muslims.
I would stop reading the business plan there.
BTTT
Ilhan Omar - D eceiver, D evil
Brotherf—ker thinks it doesn’t apply to her.
If I was paid in grapes, they'd be a former client, too 🤓
Wine and weed? That doesn’t sound very Islamic.
CC
This isn’t her brother husband tho
C'mon man, she's a dem, nothing to see here, she's safe.
Right. She divorced him to marry this guy.
Deport omar back to Somalia now.
Looks like another money laundry.
Muslim
African American
Woman
That is three get out of jail free cards.
Drugs and alcohol are forbidden for the Muslim, but it’s OK to make a profit off them when selling to non-Muslims.
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