00:00Minnesota's 5th Congressional District, and we called together this press conference in the wake of yesterday's article in the Minnesota Reformer about my opponent, Representative Omar.
00:13She paid her husband, Tim Minette, $3 million of campaign money, and the way her time in office has given his business access and credibility, as they've misappropriated more than $1 million in money from South Dakota investors.
00:34They left workers unpaid and found the funds frozen by the Office of Foreign Assets, control, the U.S. Treasury Department in charge of enforcing sanctions.
00:50Unfortunately, this story is just the latest scandal in a string of new stories about Representative Omar that narrow the focus on her and bring us further from the type of progress our district and our country needs around issues that affect the lives of our neighbors.
01:14Representative Omar has used her time, her three terms in Congress, what many would consider the opportunity and honor of a lifetime, to divide our community and enrich herself in the process.
01:31Minnesota Reformer reporter Max Nesterak's article mentions at least three of the businesses that Tim Minette and his partner Will Haler started.
01:49The first was their political consultancy, which received an unprecedented sum of money from Representative Omar's 2020 race.
02:01where she raised in millions, where she raised in millions, raked in millions of small dollar contributions from across the country during the election cycle.
02:11Three million dollars was spent with E Street, and a large portion of that money went directly back into her own household.
02:23After that, Tim Minette and his business partner Will Haler started a winery, a decision made when one of their marketing clients apparently offered them grapes in lieu of money.
02:40The winery left its workers unpaid and is currently being sued for breach of contract, a bizarre arrangement where they agreed to return an investment of $300,000 with a return of $900,000 just 18 months later.
03:03But to remember famed myself to address months later.
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