Public records indicate lien is active, though company insists debt has been paid
A company owned by Tim Mynett, the multimillionaire husband of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.), failed to pay its fair share of taxes in 2021, according to a tax lien obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.
Mynett’s company, EStreetCo, accumulated nearly $206,000 in unpaid income, Social Security, and Medicare taxes in 2021, the IRS charged in a tax lien filed against the company in Sonoma County, Calif., in January 2023. Omar, who introduced legislation in February to “make corporations pay their fair share,” was married to Mynett when the IRS says the company failed to pay its taxes.
In her 2021 financial disclosure, the Minnesota Democrat described EStreetCo as a “creative agency” and said Mynett’s share of the company was worth no more than $1,000.
EStreetCo provided advertising, design, and public relations services, and boasted a staff of at least 17 people, according to an archived version of its website. Mynett’s business partner, former DNC adviser Will Hailer, formed EStreetCo in October 2020, and business records show the pair owned the firm until its dissolution in June 2022, about seven months before the IRS filed the lien.
EStreetCo is not to be mistaken for Mynett’s former political consulting firm, E Street Group, which received $2.9 million from Omar’s campaign during the 2020 election cycle. There are no known tax liens against E Street Group.
Though the Sonoma County recorder has no records showing the IRS has released its tax lien against EStreetCo since filing it over two and a half years ago, a spokesman for the firm said Wednesday the bill had been paid. “The tax bill has been paid in full and a credit is due,” the EStreetCo spokesman told the Free Beacon. “We have reached out to the IRS to see why or if the lien is still active.”
The EStreetCo spokesman declined to respond to questions about when the firm allegedly resolved its tax debt. Instead, he provided the Free Beacon copies of IRS account transcripts dated Sept. 3, 2025, showing the IRS owed a $3,042 tax credit to the company and that the firm owed nothing to the federal government.
The IRS declined to comment.
News that Mynett’s company apparently failed to pay its fair share of taxes comes as Omar faces intense scrutiny over a Free Beacon report that found her personal fortune exploded to as much as $30 million in 2024, an increase of at least 3,500 percent over her reported net worth in 2023, which was no more than $163,000.
“It’s the kind of return Warren Buffett could only dream about,” conservative podcast host John Ashbrook said of Omar’s remarkable accumulation of wealth on Fox News on Tuesday.
Omar’s net worth in 2024 was derived almost entirely from the value of two other firms her husband and Hailer own—the California-based winery eStCru LLC and Rose Lake Capital, a venture capital firm that once boasted on its website expertise at structuring “legislation” on behalf of its clients and partners. Rose Lake Capital removed all references to “legislation” from its website sometime after Tuesday morning.
Omar’s office did not return a request for comment.
Mynett’s stake in both companies was worth no more than $51,000 at the end of 2023, Omar reported in her financial disclosure that year. Both firms had less than $700 across their bank accounts in early 2024, according to lawsuits filed against the companies from investors claiming Mynett and Hailer defrauded them out of millions of dollars.
By the end of 2024, however, Mynett’s combined stake in the two firms ballooned to as much as $30 million, according to Omar’s financial disclosures, and he and Hailer had settled the lawsuits with cash.
Mynett did not return a request for comment.
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