Representative Ilhan Omar’s (D., Minn.) campaigns have, since 2018, disbursed roughly $230,000 to a consulting firm owned by Tim Mynett, a fundraising strategist whose wife accused him of having an affair with Omar in a recent divorce filing obtained by the New York Post.
Omar’s 2018 campaign spent $62,674 on "fundraising consulting" services provided by Mynett’s E Street Group and the spending has only increased since. The freshman Democrat’s 2020 reelection campaign has, according to FEC data, spent $160,000 on Mynett’s services thus far in 2019, despite it being an off year.
The reelection campaign has laid out $21,547 in travel expenditures for Mynett since April. In a divorce filling obtained by the New York Post, Mynett’s wife suggests the travel was not work-related.
"Defendant's more recent travel and long work hours now appear to be more related to his affair with Rep. Omar than with his actual work commitments," reads the divorce filing, submitted in D.C. court on Tuesday.
If Mynett’s wife is correct about the purpose of the campaign-funded travel, Omar may be facing an FEC violation. It wouldn’t be the first time; Omar was hit with a $500 fine in June for improperly using campaign funds to travel to a conference in Florida.
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