The Situation With Congresswoman Ilhan Omar and Her Husband Just Took a Dangerous New Turn Into Fraud

By now you’ve probably got an idea of what’s going on with the investigation against Congresswoman Ilhan Omar. She’s been accused of fraudulently increasing finances for businesses owned by her husband, only to tell everyone that it was merely an oversight. Then there was the discussion surrounding a purportedly fraudulent marriage, which she reportedly put in place to keep her brother in the United States.

But as the House Oversight Committee continues its investigation, it’s just come across a real doozy that deserves deeper investigation.

According to Fox News, a winery that was co-owned by Tim Mynett, Omar’s husband, had to be shut down due to claims of fraud. It had shut down this past April in the midst of investigations into Omar’s affairs, but, before that time, it reportedly did quite the number on investors.

Rep. James Comer (R-Ky.), the Chairman of the Committee, noted, “First of all, not only was there a huge discrepancy in the financial disclosure form, there was the winery that was the big base of her $25 million listing on her financial disclosure form.

“That winery has, according to the press, been shut down because of fraud.”

Comer noted that the winery had been selling empty wine barrels to investors, under the label of “wine to be aged.” And I’m sure they didn’t take very lightly to that. If you pay for something, you should get it, and not have to wait for something “to be aged.” That, folks, is fraud.

“I can tell you from our initial investigation of Omar and her financial disclosure form that there are multiple fronts where you could get a search warrant issued,” Comer explained.

Indeed. The fact that Mynett and his partners were perfectly fine with selling far lesser product to people that invested into their business is enough to infuriate anyone.

This, on top of the faulty financial disclosure from before, should give investigators more than enough to look into.

U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro is already getting to work on that, announcing that her office has begun probing Omar’s financial disclosures – just right after her home was searched by federal agents.

Now, we know that she was under investigation before by the Office of Congressional Conduct (OCC), who later disclosed in a 5-1 vote that any allegations revolving around her be dismissed. But with this new evidence that’s come into play, I can’t help but think they were a bit too quick with that vote.

As expected, Omar has been working on the defense, especially with her re-election campaign going in full swing. She’s already denied any wrongdoing about her, and has both the press and former President Barack Obama providing support for her.

In fact, Obama has tried to turn this against President Donald Trump, insisting that there’s some kind of vendetta against Omar. “The full weight of the federal government is being brought down on a law-abiding elected official because she has dared to criticize the President,” Obama noted, believing the probe to be nothing short of “appalling.”

The problem, Obama, is that she’s not exactly law-abiding. Why isn’t she disclosing more about the numbers she put in the financial report? Why isn’t she talking more about this rumored marriage to her brother? Why is Mynett being so quiet about what his businesses have been doing with inflated revenue and, with this new report, misleading items?

All we have is a response from Mynett’s lawyers. “Any suggestion that Will or Tim deliberately defrauded investors or otherwise consciously conspired to rip people off would be false and defamatory.”

And yet…no official statement. No explanation.

People can pick on Trump all they want, but it appears that Omar has more skeletons in her closet than a storage facility at Spirit of Halloween. A deeper investigation is needed to get some answers, since we’re not getting them upfront. I’m glad that the Committee, along with Pirro, are hard at work to find the truth. Because no one should get away with fraud in the United States.

Not even a “law-abiding elected official.”