Rep. Ilhan Omar and her husband's winery was shut down for fraud after they apparently sold investors barrels of wine with nothing inside, according to Rep. James Comer.
"From our initial investigation of Omar and her financial disclosure form, there are multiple fronts where you could get a search warrant issued," House Oversight Committee chairman James Comer said to Fox News.
"Not only was there a huge discrepancy in the financial disclosure form, there was the winery that was the big base of her $25 million listing on her financial disclosure form."
"That winery has, according to the press, been shut down because of fraud. They were apparently selling investors barrels of wine to be aged, but there was nothing in the barrels."
Back in February, after reviewing financial disclosures filed by Omar, Rep. Comer sent a letter to Omar's husband questioning how eStCru LLC and Rose Lake Capital LLC went from being worth $51,000 in 2023 to up to $30 million in 2024.
Comer at the time said the discrepancy was very concerning, noting how the California winery and venture capital firm "increased so dramatically in value only a year after reporting very limited assets."
"Given that these companies do not publicly list their investors or where their money comes from, this sudden jump in value raises concerns that unknown individuals may be investing to gain influence with your wife," he said at the time.
A couple of months later, in April, the winery reportedly shut down operations.
What happened to the audits on homelessness spending and the EDD promised by California State Controller Malia Cohen?
She told me she didn't want to duplicate work of others in state government. She also told me her office needs more money to do audits:
🚨 CALIFORNIA’S ELECTION STORY JUST CAUGHT FIRE — AND THIS GOES BACK TO ALEX PADILLA.
Don’t make the mistake of thinking this is simply Newsom vs. Bill Essayli.
Newsom is stepping into the fight now.
@SenAlexPadilla helped build the system they are fighting over.
Before Gavin Newsom defended California’s voter rolls, Padilla served as California Secretary of State.
Under Padilla came the expansion and implementation of the election architecture I have spent months investigating:
• VoteCal
• Motor Voter
• DMV voter-registration transfers
• Vote Centers
• Ballot drop boxes
• Expanded vote-by-mail
• The Voter’s Choice Act
• The unanswered Riverside voter-registration problems
• Documented DMV errors involving thousands of Californians
I wrote this story BEFORE DOJ arrived with more than 20,000 names it says are likely noncitizens registered to vote in California.
Now DOJ has sued California.
This did not begin yesterday.
🚨 READ THE PAPER TRAIL:
PART I — The 2020 Election Steal Was Built Before COVID
Zuckerberg money, Alex Padilla’s election model, and the Sacramento County paper trail:
https://t.co/sBDe7mdo15
🚨 PART II — Sacramento Had Election-System Warning Signs Before CTCL Money Arrived
https://t.co/OJHJc12zFu
🚨 PART III — After the Grant: The Alarm Sacramento and California Cannot Ignore
https://t.co/Kg2SBksjXZ
🚨 BECERRA AND PADILLA — THE 2016 ELECTION-SECURITY QUESTIONS
Riverside. VoteCal. DMV failures. Change Request #14.
What did California know, and what was done about it?
https://t.co/andttH1o14
🚨 CALIFORNIA’S VOTER-ROLL PROBLEM IS BIGGER THAN NONCITIZENS
Published September 30 — before this lawsuit.
I asked the question California still needs to answer:
If California will not use the expanded federal SAVE system, what independent system is California using to verify citizenship?
https://t.co/wHGoicUObb
And now, October 15, 2026:
The United States Department of Justice has sued California after federal investigators said they identified more than 20,000 registered voters they believe are likely noncitizens.
That allegation still has to be proven in court.
But California can no longer dismiss the underlying verification question as hypothetical.
Newsom may be standing at the podium today.
BUT TO UNDERSTAND HOW CALIFORNIA GOT HERE, GO BACK TO ALEX PADILLA.
Follow the documents.
Follow the timeline.
And ask the question I have been asking from the beginning:
WHO VERIFIED THE VERIFIERS?
— Christine Bish
THE BISH REPORT
@USAttyEssayli@CivilRights@XavierBecerra@SteveHiltonx@GavinNewsom@nickshirleyy@DrWeber4CA@AGRobBonta@C_3C_3@ZavalaA@CAGOP@Milajoy@GuntherEagleman@nicksortor
I told everyone 2 years ago Sheng Thao's co-defendant lover Andre Jones had an outsized influence at City Hall.
Few listened and the City of Oakland attacked me for it and tried to silence me.
California Politics 360 interviews this Sunday:
•FA U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli on voter rolls court fight
•Western States Petroleum CEO Jodie Muller on gas prices
•State Controller Malia Cohen on her run for reelection
•Optiq Co-Founder Cole Patterson on early ballots
The public should be outraged that a highly-paid elected official refuses to be interviewed by a very fair journalist.
Malia Cohen should be run out of office by the people who elected her if she can't defend her reelection.
Do voters even care?
@SoanbergerVA parole board just released a felon on parole who previously, when he was on parole for 2 PRIOR rapes, then raped a child under 13! Youngkin’s board said NO, Spanberger’s board called it a ‘technical violation,’ said just THREE years was enough, and let him out without a single no vote! Raping a child while on parole for 2 PRIOR takes is not a “technicality.” FIRE THE SPANBERGER PAROLE BOARD!
https://t.co/WM85yznQBt