eStCru, the California winery co-owned by U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar’s (D-Minn.) husband, Timothy Mynett, dissolved nine days after Omar filed an amended financial disclosure listing the business with no net value. The timing has renewed scrutiny over the winery’s reported valuation after The Dallas Express first reported on the change earlier this year.
As previously reported by The Dallas Express, Omar’s financial disclosures valued eStCru LLC, co-owned by Mynett and his business partner William Hailer, between $1,000,001 and $5,000,000 in 2024, up from between $15,001 and $50,000 in 2023.
The disclosure drew scrutiny from House Republicans, including House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer.
In a February 5 letter to Mynett, Comer wrote that eStCru and Rose Lake Capital were disclosed as being worth as much as $30 million in 2024 after being listed at as much as $51,000 in 2023, a jump that he said raises “concerns that unknown individuals may be investing to gain influence with your wife.”
Comer also requested financial records, SEC filings, and documents related to travel by anyone affiliated with eStCru or Rose Lake Capital to the United Arab Emirates, Somalia, and Kenya.
Omar later filed an amended disclosure. In the amended disclosure, both businesses were listed with no net value after liabilities were taken into account. The amended filing reduced the couple’s reported asset range from as high as $30 million to between $18,004 and $95,000.
Omar’s office said it voluntarily amended the filing after identifying the “discrepancy,” and spokesperson Jacklyn Rogers said it corrected the filing after discovering the “error.”
“The amended disclosure confirms what we’ve said all along: The congresswoman is not a millionaire,” spokeswoman Jacklyn Rogers told The Wall Street Journal. Omar updated the filing after a March letter from the Office of Congressional Conduct, an independent group that reviews misconduct allegations against members, The Wall Street Journal reported.
The amended filing still left unresolved questions about how the businesses had previously been valued. The same filing still listed between $102,503 and $1,005,200 in 2024 income from the two businesses, including $213,200 from Rose Lake Capital and $3,000 from eStCru. Omar’s office has not publicly detailed the liabilities that reduced the reported asset values to zero.
As previously reported by The Dallas Express, eStCru’s website was blank, its public phone line was inactive, and social media accounts tied to the label appeared dormant even as the company’s reported valuation rose into the millions.
Independent journalist Angela Rose reported that a visit to the winery’s listed address in Santa Rosa, California, found a letter from the building operator, Punchdown Cellars, stating that eStCru had not been a client there for several years and had ceased operations at that location.
I visited the principal address of ESTCRU winery. This winery is co owned by US Rep of Minnesota Ilhan Omar’s husband, Timothy Mynett, yet seems to allegedly be a shell business used to launder funds.
Here we were informed that 40+ wineries operate out of this location and that… pic.twitter.com/FZRdHqgdRa
— Angela Rose (@angelaroosee) February 4, 2026
Court records show that as of February 2024, eStCru had $650 in its bank account while it was defending a lawsuit brought by Washington, D.C., businessman Naeem Mohd, who sought $780,000 in damages. The case was later settled in November 2024.
Meanwhile, the National Legal and Policy Center filed a complaint with the Office of Congressional Conduct alleging that Omar failed to properly disclose financial assets, transactions, and liabilities connected to Mynett’s businesses.
The dissolution of eStCru comes as House Republicans continue pressing for records related to the company and Rose Lake Capital.
A 2025 email between Mynett and his accountant reportedly valued eStCru at $1.5 million and Rose Lake Capital at $7.9 million, with Mynett owning roughly one-third of each. The amended disclosure later listed both businesses with no net value.
Omar has said the earlier filing overstated the couple’s wealth because of accounting errors.
