NEW: Ilhan Omar's net worth skyrocketed to upwards of $30 million in 2024, an increase of at least 3,500% in just one year.
Her husband's venture capital firm was no more than $1k in 2023. Now, she says it's worth up to $25 million. It specializes in structuring "legislation."
Omar said in February it's "categorically false" and "ridiculous" to claim she has anything more than a few thousand dollars to her name.
That was true in 2023, when she and her husband were worth no more than $163,000.
Omar's 2024 financial disclosure shows she and her husband — her former campaign consultant Tim Mynett — accumulated a fortune worth $6 million to $30 million. And they have hardly any debt.
NEW: "Gold Bar" Bob Menendez accepted bribes after helping Egypt's spy chief cover up its alleged involvement in the murder of Jamal Khashoggi, new book reveals.
Prosecutors covered this during his trial—but major news outlets didn't mention it in their reporting.
That includes the Washington Post, where Khashoggi used to work, and whose editorial board accused the Trump admin of covering up his murder.
WaPo quoted the yellow portion of this prosecutor's memo in a Jan. 11 story. The blue portion referring to Khashoggi: ignored entirely.
This shouldn't be news today. But it is because the media outlets that covered Menendez's trial appear to have deliberately ignored what was arguably the most interesting aspect of it.
NEW: The House Ethics Committee has rebuked @AOC for simultaneously claiming her longtime partner, Riley Roberts, is and isn't her "spouse."
This has allowed AOC to grant her "spouse" special perks and freebies while also shielding his financial affairs from the public.
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The Ethics Committee buried its rebuke of AOC deep in the footnotes of its July report finding she violated House Rules in her attendance of the 2021 Met Gala:
"The Committee also found evidence that Representative Ocasio-Cortez listed Mr. Roberts as her “spouse” on paperwork filed with the House relating to privately sponsored travel, although the two were not legally married at the time of the gifted travel."
"The Committee further notes that at the same time Representative Ocasio-Cortez was seeking to take advantage of exceptions to the Gift Rule only applicable to spouses and/or certain relatives, she was not disclosing Mr. Roberts's financial interests as is required of Members who are legally married."
How did we get here?
AOC's attorney, David Mitrani, explained in no uncertain terms in a May 16 letter to the House Ethics Committee that Roberts is considered AOC's "spouse" only in the context of federal campaign finance law, but NOT for financial disclosure requirements.
NEW: @FreeBeacon has learned that Senator Raphael Warnock lives in a $1 million luxury Atlanta home FOR FREE—bought and paid for by the historic Ebenezer Baptist Church where MLK Jr. preached.
News of Warnock's new luxury church-funded housing accommodations will likely come as a surprise to his congregation, which just two weeks ago had to listen to the Senator urge them to donate their BONUS CHECKS to the church to help pay down its mortgage debts.
MLK Jr. would have never approved of church funds being used this way, said Dr. Albert Paul Brinson, who was ordained by the civil rights icon in 1965 and is widely recognized as serving as a "living source on the life and ministry" of MLK Jr.
NEW: @FreeBeacon obtained voluminous records showing how Georgia state bureaucrats inserted transgender and DEI questions into a blockbuster contract last year that determined who will administer healthcare to millions of residents starting next year.
/w @jessicaschwalb7
The records show that a cadre of Georgia state bureaucrats deliberately modified questions in the Georgia Families Medicaid contract to highlight left-wing policy priorities.
That includes edits to a question about a hypothetical 14 y/o transgender kid made around June 2023.
Georgia awarded the contract based on responses to a 1,000-point questionnaire.
Top 4 point getters got the contract.
In the end, the difference between 4th and 5th was just under 10 points.
The transgender question was worth 10 points, meaning it played a crucial role determining which companies Georgia selected to administer Medicaid to millions of residents beginning next year.