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The headquarters of Rose Lake Capital — the Washington venture firm co-founded by Rep. Ilhan Omar's husband, Tim Mynett, which claims to manage $60 billion in assets — does not appear to exist at the address the company lists for itself.
Investigative journalist Angela Rose went to the firm's listed consulting headquarters, a WeWork coworking building in Washington, D.C., and walked every floor of it. "I walked by every single office in this building, and everyone has their logos proudly displayed on the wall," she reported. "I asked around for Rose Lake Capital, and people were not familiar with it. I looked at every logo, and Rose Lake Capital did not have an office here."
Rose Lake Capital was formed in 2022 by Mynett and former DNC adviser Will Hailer. Its website has boasted of $60 billion in assets under management, an "extensive global network," and expertise in structuring "legislation." Yet the firm is not registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission — the regulator that investment advisers managing anywhere near that kind of money are normally required to register with — and there are no verifiable records of the deals its marketing describes.
The empty address lands on top of a disclosure record that has already drawn investigators. On Omar's 2023 financial disclosure, Mynett's stake in Rose Lake Capital was valued at between $1 and $1,000. One year later, her 2024 disclosure put the same stake at between $5 million and $25 million, while the couple's combined business interests were listed at $6 million to $30 million. Omar later amended the filing, listing both of her husband's businesses as having no net value once liabilities were counted and cutting the couple's reported assets to between $18,004 and $95,000. Her office said the original form had failed to subtract the businesses' debts and that the congresswoman is not a millionaire.
The firm's public face has been quietly shrinking as the questions grow. Between September and October, Rose Lake Capital's website was scrubbed of the names and biographies of its officers and advisers — a roster that had included former Sen. Max Baucus and former Ambassador J. Adam Ereli, both Obama appointees, and former Amalgamated Bank CEO Keith Mestrich. Baucus told the New York Post the firm's pitch "sounded a little bit fishy."
The paper trail is now in official hands. House Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer requested financial records and communications from both of Mynett's companies in February, and U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro said on October 13 that her office is investigating Omar's disclosures. No charges have been filed, and a congressional ethics watchdog separately voted in September to recommend dismissing the newer disclosure allegations — a recommendation that does not bind Pirro's criminal inquiry. Omar has denied wrongdoing and accused the Trump administration of targeting her for political reasons.
What no filing can explain is the simplest fact Rose put on camera: a firm claiming $60 billion, a global network, and a hand in structuring legislation lists a Washington headquarters where nobody has heard of it, no logo hangs on any wall, and no office exists on any floor.
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