What Happened to Ilhan Omar’s Winery? Inquiring Minds Are Asking
Is Rep. Ilhan Omar one step closer to criminal exposure and, hopefully, denaturalization and deportation? We can only hope.
A California winery, co-owned by Tim Mynett, the husband of Rep. Ilhan
Omar (D-Minn.), was legally dissolved just nine days after Omar quietly amended her financial disclosure to indicate that the winery was worthless. This amendment came about a year after she had previously reported its value to be as high as $5 million. On April 4, Mynett’s business partner signed the termination filing for eStCru LLC without providing an explanation.
The winery existed almost entirely on paper. Its website was blank, its phone line was disconnected, and its social media accounts were inactive. A visit to its Santa Rosa address revealed a letter from the building manager stating that eStCru hadn’t been a tenant there for years. The winery sold bottles with names like “Blockchain” and “Clothesline.” This was the full extent of its operations—a ghost business listed in a sitting congresswoman’s disclosures, valued in the millions of dollars.
The numbers were astonishing for a company that seemed to lack any real activity. In May 2025, Omar filed his 2024 financial disclosure, revealing that eStCru was valued between $1 million and $5 million—an increase of at least 1,900 percent from the previous year’s valuation of just $15,000. At the time of this massive surge, court records indicated that the company had only $650 in its bank account. Additionally, it was facing a lawsuit from a businessman in D.C. who accused Mynett of “fraudulently misrepresenting that eStCru LLC was a legitimate company,” seeking $780,000 in damages. This case was settled in November 2024.
Then, on March 26, Omar filed an amended disclosure stating that eStCru had no net value. Just nine days later, the company was dissolved.
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As we reported, when a reporter confronted Omar on camera regarding the winery and her finances, the exchange became heated and personal.
And:
Reporter: “You were just talking about how Trump’s economy has failed the American people. But I think the American people really want to know how you went from a negative $65,000 before coming into Congress to over $30 million in just seven years.”
Omar: “My disclosure is public enough.”
Reporter: “A lot of people are now looking into that and finding
eStCru winery, a winery that doesn’t actually seem to exist. Is that a real winery?”
Omar: “Or do you all actually look at and read things? Or do you just ask silly questions?”
Reporter: “It’s listed in the financial disclosure. Can you explain it? Because we have a lot of questions about it and things just aren’t adding up. There’s no real phone number, there’s no real location.”
Omar: “You need to prepare yourself, because you can’t continue embarrassing yourself like this.”
This all screams fraud, by the way.
The eStCru implosion is part of a larger financial disclosure issue. In February, GOP House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer (KY-01) initiated a formal inquiry after documents revealed that eStCru and another Mynett firm, Rose Lake Capital, experienced a dramatic increase in reported values—from as low as $51,000 in 2023 to as high as $30 million in 2024. Rose Lake Capital claims on its website to manage $60 billion in assets, yet it is not registered with the SEC.
“This sudden jump in value raises concerns that unknown individuals may be investing to gain influence,” Comer wrote.
Omar’s office has called the strange and sudden disappearance of her wealth an “account error.” Because $30 million accounting errors happen all the time with members of Congress, you see.
