Rep. Ilhan Omar cites accounting error in $30 million financial disclosure
Rep. Ilhan Omar blamed major accounting errors for suggesting she was a millionaire after a congressional financial disclosure caught the attention of Republicans.
The disclosure filed by the Minnesota Democrat last year showed her and her husband’s assets were estimated at between $6 million and $30 million. But an amended filing shows that Ms. Omar and her husband, Tim Mynett, had assets of between $18,000 and $95,000, the Wall Street Journal reported.
The revised disclosure came after the Office of Congressional Conduct requested additional information earlier this year, according to the Journal.
Ms Omar’s lawyer wrote to the watchdog, saying the inaccurate information was unintentional and came from the use of accountants.
“As the busiest of people, it is very common for members and their spouses to rely on learned professionals like accountants to make calculations and determinations that appear in public records,” the attorney wrote, according to the Journal. “While the error is of course regrettable, there is nothing untoward and nothing illegal has occurred.”
Ms. Omar’s spokeswoman, Jacklyn Rogers, told the Journal that the record was corrected “as soon as the discrepancy was identified.”
“The amended disclosure confirms what we have been saying all along: the MP is not a millionaire,” Ms. Rogers said.
The inflated figures trace back to Mr. Mynett’s two businesses: a winery and a venture capital firm.
A 2025 financial disclosure filing previously valued her husband’s business interests in the millions, but the businesses were listed in the amended filing as having no net worth after debts were taken into account, according to the Journal.
The amended filing shows that Ms. Omar reported between $102,503 and $1,005,200 in income in 2024 from her and Mr. Mynett’s assets, the newspaper reported.
But assets as high as $30 million prompted Republicans to question how this massive discrepancy went unreported. House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer, Republican of Kentucky, sent a letter in February to Ms. Omar’s husband, raising concerns about the financial disclosures and requesting financial documents.
Ms. Omar could now be the subject of an investigation by President Trump and House Republicans, the outlet reported.
