Ilhan Omar Under Investigation for Wealth

Fox News alert, Ilhan Omar under investigation

after racking up millions while she was in Congress.

Senior national correspondent Kevin Kork has it.

What's up Kevin?

Good to see you my friend.

What's the old saying? Follow the money?

Well, that's precisely what the House Oversight Committee is doing.

They are probing squad member Ilhan Omar's skyrocketing family wealth, Jesse,

especially in the wake of that $9 billion, some would argue $19 billion,

Somali social services fraud scandal that exploded in her district in Minnesota.

The oversight chair, James Comer, says his team's lawyers are exploring

the extraordinary step of subpoenaing Omar's spouse over his curious business practices.

Republicans want to know how the Somali-born Omar and her politically connected husband

Tim Manette went from being nearly broke to being worth around 30 million bucks in just a year.

According to her 2024 disclosure forms, quoting Comer now,

there are a lot of questions as to how her husband accumulated so much wealth over the past two years.

It's not possible. It's not.

And he's a money guy.

Manette and his partner, Will Haler,

back in 2022 formed an investment firm, Jesse, named Rose Lake Capital.

They had 42 bucks in their bank account at the time, but in a year,

up to 25 million bucks according to Omar's filing.

By the way, he also has a wine business that went from next to nothing to millions on its books.

Not surprisingly, associates were so perplexed about the irregularities,

they brought information and attention to the feds to, you know, look into it.

Now for her part, the Congresswoman has repeatedly,

and I say defiantly denied any wrongdoing while being also careful to criticize the ongoing probe.

But you know, sometimes I say, Jesse, the ones who yell the loudest have the most to

Well, innocent until proven guilty. I'm sure everything was perfectly legal.

We're just checking to find out.

Kevin, good to see you.