Rep. Omar Cleared in Financial Disclosure Case.
A nonpartisan House entity has recommended dismissing an allegation that Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., filed false or incomplete financial disclosures.
The Office of Congressional Conduct board voted 5-1 to recommend that the House Ethics Committee dismiss the allegation, according to confidential findings viewed by The Wall Street Journal.
"The Board recommends that the committee dismiss the above allegation concerning Rep. Omar because there is not substantial reason to believe that Rep. Omar reported false or incomplete information in her financial disclosures," the report says.
The findings are not public.
An earlier report on a separate allegation involving Omar became public in 2022 after the House Ethics Committee did not vote to dismiss the matter, triggering its release under House rules.
The Office of Congressional Ethics in that case unanimously recommended dismissal, and the committee published the report without further review.
Nothing in the current matter has reached that stage.
A financial disclosure filed last year listed Omar and her husband, former political consultant Tim Mynett, with assets valued between $6 million and $30 million.
An amended filing, which Omar's office attributed to accounting errors, put the couple's assets at $18,004 to $95,000.
Mynett's venture capital management firm in Washington, D.C., and his winery in Santa Rosa, California, were shown in the amended filing as having no net value once liabilities were counted.
Aides said Omar reviewed the form before it was filed in 2025 but did not catch the error because she is not involved in her husband's businesses.
Her most recent financial disclosure, filed in May, listed assets between $20,005 and $125,000.
It also showed student loan and credit card debt each between $15,001 and $50,000.
"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 spokeswoman Jacklyn Rogers said.
Omar rejected the millionaire label in an Instagram post in February 2025.
"My salary is $174,000 before taxes, I don't own a home, and I'm still paying off my student loan debt," she wrote.
President Donald Trump suggested in January that Omar had profited from Minnesota's welfare fraud scandal and said the Justice Department was scrutinizing her.
Rep. James Comer, R-Ky., chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, suggested earlier this year that he might subpoena Mynett.
Omar's office said she has received no communications from the Justice Department or the House Ethics Committee about any pending investigations.
Story by Jim Mishler, a seasoned reporter, anchor and news director, has decades of experience covering crime, politics and environmental issues.
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