Besides scrutiny from the feds, Rep. Ilhan Omar’s husband’s winery could land the embattled power couple in hot water with imams too.
Political consultant Tim Mynett converted to Islam to marry Omar, a practicing Muslim — but selling booze is strictly banned in Islamic law, which considers anything to do with alcohol sinful — or “haram.”
“I assure you that they got married in accordance with Islam and the law, and Ilhan’s husband converted to Islam,” a spokesperson for Omar’s office told BBC Somalia at the time of the 2020 wedding.
It was Mynett’s California-based wine company eStCru, together with his other allegedly shady business ventures, that helped propel the couple’s worth to up to$30 million and attracted a probe by the House Oversight Committee and the Department of Justice.
Omar claimed the wine biz was worth between $1 million and $5 million in her May 2025 financial disclosure, which covered the 2024 calendar year.
But by that point, the venture had gone belly-up for more than a year, adding to the mystery of why she would have placed such a high value on it in the first place.
“We’re not experts in Islamic law — but we’re pretty sure scamming the American people for a living violates every religion,” slammed Republican National Committee Press Secretary Kiersten Pels.
eStCru wasn’t a traditional brick and mortar winery, but rather just a label that subcontracted producers throughout the West Coast to bottle wines for them.
The venture was short lived — it only sold a handful of wines between 2020 and 2023 — including a Malbec called “The Devil’s Lie;” a Cabernet Sauvignon named “Blockchain;” and a red blend “Overt,” described by drinkers as “flimsy” and “tart.”
The company was part of a larger “collective” selling wines out of a Santa Rosa storage space called Punchdown, whose boss told The Post Mynett’s was one of more than 20 labels it housed at the time.
eStCru’s short existence was marked by scandal — despite being named “hot brand of the year” in 2022. By early 2023, its winemakers said they had stopped getting paid, and the brand was no longer advertising on social media.
By that fall, Mynett and his business partner Will Hailer, two Democratic operatives who had met working for now Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison, were sued by one of their investors.
The investor, a DC restaurateur, claimed he’d been swindled into plunging $300,000 into the venture in 2021 and that the pair “fraudulently misrepresented” eStCru was a legitimate company.
They settled out of court, records show. By early 2024, eStCru reportedly only had $650 in the bank, according to court documents. In November 2024, the website went dark.
It’s not clear why after all of this failure Omar placed the business’ value in the seven figures. In her financial disclosure covering the previous year of 2023, when eStCru was at least alive, she only put its value between $15,000 and $50,000 — significantly lower.
When reached for comment by The Post, a company spokesperson said the winery is dead.
“While reports have made it seem like eStCru was a physical winery, it wasn’t. It was a direct-to-consumer wine company that is no longer operational and for which Mr. Mynett won’t show income derived in a 2025 statement,” they said.
The revelations come with the Congresswoman under fire with questions swirling about what the Somali-born politician knew about the $9 billion Minnesota fraud scandal involving the Somali community.
As for failing to follow religious strictures, this is not new territory for the couple.
Mynett’s ex-wife, DC Department of Corrections medical director Beth Mynett, suspected the pair of having an affair when the “Squad” member hired Mynett to work on her first Congressional election campaign as early as 2018 — allegations Omar and Mynett have denied.
In 2019, Mynett was pictured carrying multiple six packs of Stella Artois beer to Omar’s DC pad and picking up the congresswoman in his blue Mustang while puffing on a cigarette – also “haram” in Islamic law.
Adultery is punishable by stoning in Islamic law.
“She is a figurehead for us, the most famous Somali in America and she has embarrassed us,” one local community leader complained to the Daily Mail regarding the adultery accusations.
“I don’t know what she is thinking.”
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