Omar amended filing reduced family assets from $6M–$30M to $18,004–$95,000
The Office of Congressional Conduct, the nonpartisan entity charged with reviewing misconduct allegations against House members and staff, has recommended that the House Ethics Committee dismiss allegations that Rep. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.) reported false or incomplete information in her congressional financial disclosures. The OCC’s board voted 5-1 in favor of dismissal, according to findings marked confidential and viewed by the Wall Street Journal.
The OCC report concluded that “there is not substantial reason to believe that Rep. Omar reported false or incomplete information in her financial disclosures.” The investigation was opened earlier this year after a disclosure Omar filed in 2025 showed assets of between $6 million and $30 million — a massive rise in wealth from her previous annual filing. The jump triggered questions among Republicans eager to scrutinize a critic of President Trump.
Omar subsequently filed an amended disclosure addressing what her aides described as major accounting errors in her initial document. The amended filing reduced the couple’s assets to between $18,004 and $95,000. Congressional disclosure forms require only broad ranges, not exact values.
The discrepancy centered on businesses tied to Omar’s husband, Tim Mynett, a former political consultant involved with a venture-capital management firm in Washington, D.C., and a winery in Santa Rosa, California. Those businesses had originally been listed as worth between $6 million and $30 million. In the amended filing, they were shown as having no value once liabilities were factored in. The venture-capital firm was listed as generating between $100,000 and $1 million in income, while the winery showed income between $2,501 and $5,000.
Omar’s aides said she reviewed her form before its 2025 filing but did not catch the error because she is not involved in her husband’s businesses and trusted the accountant involved. Her most recent disclosure, filed in May, listed assets valued between $20,005 and $125,000, along with $15,001 to $50,000 in student loan debt and $15,001 to $50,000 in credit-card debt. Omar is 43 years old.
Amended congressional disclosure filings are not uncommon; numerous House and Senate members have failed to disclose stock trading transactions properly, the Journal noted.
The recommendation comes amid heightened scrutiny from Republican lawmakers and the president. Trump suggested in January that Omar profited from Minnesota’s massive welfare fraud scandal and said the Justice Department was scrutinizing her. Rep. James Comer (R., Ky.), chairman of the House Oversight Committee, earlier this year suggested he might subpoena Omar’s husband over what appeared to be a significant jump in family assets. Omar’s office said she has received no communications from the Justice Department or the House Ethics Committee about any pending investigations.
Omar spokeswoman Jacklyn Rogers said in a statement: “This vote clearly underscores that the congresswoman did nothing wrong, and attempts by the far right to manufacture controversy and distract from the facts are pathetic and nothing more than a desperate distraction from their own failures.”
Omar, the first Somali American and one of the first two Muslim women elected to Congress, has frequently drawn Trump’s ire. The two have clashed since her 2018 election to a heavily Democratic congressional district that includes Minneapolis and nearby suburbs. Animosity has grown amid revelations of massive welfare fraud first uncovered in Minnesota during the Biden administration, as well as the fatal shootings of two of her constituents in January by federal immigration officers.
Omar first gained national attention as part of a group of younger, progressive women known as the Squad, who often challenge Democratic leadership and are vocal Trump critics.