Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) says she isn’t as wealthy as previous financial disclosures showed — a claim which prompted calls for investigations from President Donald Trump and House Republicans.
Omar disclosed last year that she and her husband held assets of between $6 million and $30 million, which represented a massive rise in wealth from her previous annual filing.
However, Omar now is blaming the filings showing she had quickly become very rich on major accounting errors, according to a report yesterday in the Wall Street Journal.
An amended filing viewed by the Journal shows that she and her husband’s assets to be only $18,004 to $95,000. Disclosure forms don’t require exact values, only broad ranges.
Omar’s husband Tim Mynett, a former political consultant, is involved in several businesses, according to the disclosure forms. They include a venture-capital management firm in Washington, D.C. and a winery in Santa
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