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ethics rules in failing to disclose her husband’s assets and liabilities stemming from his marijuana and wine businesses, according to a conservative watchdog group., should be investigated by the Office of Congressional Ethics over the lack of disclosure, the National Legal and Policy Center argued in a complaint filed on Wednesday with the independent agency.
Omar, over the last three years, has not disclosed to Congress the value of these troubled business ventures, NLPC said in the complaint, pointing to a reported $300,000 investment from a Washington, D.C., business owner, Naeem Mohd, in the wine business — eStCru. “While Mynett and Hailer’s wine business seems to be a bust, they say they are now working to sell the intellectual property and trademarks associated with the brand,” NLPC’s counsel, Paul Kamenar, wrote in the complaint. “Indeed, Rep. Omar did not list any transactions by her spouse under Schedule B: Transactions for the last three years regarding any of his wine and cannabis businesses.”
Rep. Ilhan Omar talks during a press conference to call for a ceasefire in Israel and Gaza on Capitol Hill on Friday, Oct. 20, 2023, in Washington. , one Minnesota Republican said the public in his and Omar’s state is “tired of the financial grifts these political leeches are playing to enrich themselves.”
Omar is “unafraid to make potentially illegal financial decisions at the expense” of voters, said Joe Fraser, who is running for Senate in the Gopher State.in the past over paying millions of dollars through her campaign to a firm owned by her husband. In response to criticism of apparent wrongdoing to enrich him, she defended the payments.“I don’t pay my husband, I pay the firm to do work,” she said in 2020.
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