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Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) is once again under fire — this time because her husband Tim Mynett’s $25 million venture capital firm, Rose Lake Capital, reportedly purged key officer details amid growing questions about the couple’s wealth and Minnesota’s ongoing welfare fraud investigations.

According to her latest financial disclosure in May, the couple’s net worth surged 3500% in just one year; their net worth is now anywhere from $6 million to $30 million. The venture capital firm alone, per the filing, is worth between $5 million-$25 million.

The New York Post was the first outlet to report Mynett’s firm scrubbed names on Saturday.

“There’s a lot of strange things going on,” Paul Kamenar, counsel to the National Legal and Policy Center, told the Post. “She was basically broke when she came into office and now she’s worth perhaps up to $30 million … she needs to come clean on these assets.”

Rose Lake Capital allegedly had less than $1,000 in assets in 2023, according to the financial disclosure for that year — leading many to question the firm’s skyrocketing fiscal growth.

Between September and October, nine officer and advisor details were removed from the site, including former Obama officials, according to the NYP.  These names include former Obama Ambassador to Bahrain Adam Ereli; former Obama Ambassador to China Max Baucus; DNC Finance Chair associate Alex Hoffman; former DNC treasurer William Derrough and former ex-CEO of Amalgamated Bank Keith Mestrich, per the New York Post‘s findings.

This move comes amid growing scrutiny of Omar.

Ninety people have been accused, and in many cases convicted, of defrauding the state of hundreds of millions of dollars — three of whom have alleged ties to Omar, though she has not been charged herself.

Some of the scrutiny toward Omar comes from her support of reforms that have since been exploited in this fraud scheme, which includes the MEALS Act — changes to the federal reimbursement rules during the COVID-19 pandemic, waiving oversight requirements to increase timely access to meals for children.

When asked by Fox News Digital if she regretted pushing for the bill and thinks it led to fraud, she offered a brief response: “Absolutely not. It did help feed kids.”

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• A father in Texas tracked down his kidnapped 15-year-old daughter by using her phone’s location via parental controls, according to the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office

• Police said “the suspect had threatened the victim with a knife and abducted her from the street”

• Giovanni Rosales Espinoza, 23, was arrested and charged with aggravated kidnapping and indecency with a child

A kidnapped teen was saved thanks to her father’s quick thinking.

The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office (MCSO) shared on Facebook that deputies responded to a report of a “kidnapping of a 15-year-old female” in Porter, Texas, at around 4:50 p.m. on Dec. 25.

Investigators learned that the teenager “had taken her dog out for a walk and when she did not return at her usual time,” her parents grew concerned. Her father then used parental controls in order to locate his daughter’s phone, which had pinged in a “partially wooded area in Harris County nearly 2 miles away.”

The father was able to locate his daughter through the phone and found her and the dog inside of a “maroon-colored pickup truck” with a “partially nude 23-year-old male,” per MCSO. He then helped his daughter escape from the truck and contacted law enforcement.

“Investigations revealed that the suspect had threatened the victim with a knife and abducted her from the street,” the MCSO said.

People who witnessed the incident gave a detailed description of the truck, which helped deputies locate and identify the suspect in the incident. MCSO identified the suspect as 23-year-old Giovanni Rosales Espinoza of Porter.

Detectives with the MCSO major crimes unit responded to the scene.

Espinosa was arrested and charged with aggravated kidnapping and indecency with a child, the MCSO noted. As of Dec. 26, he remained in custody at the Montgomery County Jail with no bond.

“Christmas is a day meant for joy, but this man chose to shatter that joy by targeting a child,” said Sheriff Wesley Doolittle in a statement. “I am incredibly proud of our deputies and detectives who worked tirelessly to ensure this dangerous predator was swiftly apprehended and is now off our streets.”

“Rest assured that your Sheriff’s Office remains vigilant every hour of every day to keep your families safe,” he added.

The family of the kidnapped teen, who requested to remain anonymous, told KHOU11 that they were thankful that the teen was safe and back at home recovering. They also noted that none of the family members knew the suspect.

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The incident is still under investigation, the MCSO said.

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• Kennedy Center president Richard Grenell is demanding damages from Chuck Redd, the jazz musician who canceled his Christmas Eve Jazz Jam concert at the venue

• The longtime Jazz Jam host canceled shortly after the site was renamed the Trump Kennedy Center on both its website and building sign

• “This is your official notice that we will seek $1 million in damages from you for this political stunt,” Grenell wrote in a letter to Redd

After President Donald Trump attached his name to the Kennedy Center, jazz musician Chuck Redd backed out of his annual Christmas Eve concert. Now, the venue’s president is demanding steep financial compensation.

The performer, 67, pulled out of the yearly “Jazz Jam” holiday show — which he has hosted for almost two decades — in the wake of the controversial renaming, announced less than a week before the event.

On Friday, Dec. 26, Kennedy Center president Richard Grenell criticized the musician’s decision to cancel “for partisan political reasons” and requested $1 million in damages, according to a letter obtained by Fox News, the Associated Press and The New York Times. He also called Redd’s cancellation a “political stunt.”

“Your decision to withdraw at the last moment — explicitly in response to the Center’s recent renaming, which honors President Trump’s extraordinary efforts to save this national treasure — is classic intolerance and very costly to a non-profit Arts institution,” Grenell, 59, said in the letter.

The venue president went on to criticize Redd for an alleged lack of ticket sales and to praise Trump, 79, for rescuing the center “from almost certain destruction” before formally requesting damages from the longtime Christmas Eve Jazz Jam host.

“Your dismal ticket sales and lack of donor support, combined with your last-minute cancellation, has cost us considerably,” Grenell wrote. “This is your official notice that we will seek $1 million in damages from you for this political stunt.”

“This institution remains dedicated to excellence and accessibility for generations to come, and we will not yield to the pressure tactics being directed at us from political performers on our stages,” Grenell concluded. “True artists perform for everyone regardless of the political affiliation of audience members.”

Redd could not be reached for comment.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt first announced on Dec. 18 that the board of the historic venue had “voted unanimously” to rename the building “The Trump Kennedy Center,” or “The Donald J. Trump and the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts” in full.

Shortly after taking office, Trump purged the appointed members of the center’s board, installing his own appointees. The Trump-friendly board then established Trump as chairman of the arts organization, which was dedicated in 1964 as a “living memorial” to assassinated President John F. Kennedy.

The Kennedy Center was established by an act of Congress, and critics have argued that only Congress can authorize a formal name change.

Still, the center updated its logo on the website and social media to read “The Trump Kennedy Center” almost immediately, and the following day, Trump’s name was added to the signage on the building’s exterior — prompting Redd’s cancellation.

The drummer and vibraphone player, who has toured with famed jazz musicians, has hosted the annual holiday concerts since 2006, per AP. He explained his reasoning for the cancellation in an email to the outlet on Wednesday, Dec. 24 — the day the show was originally scheduled to take place.

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“When I saw the name change on the Kennedy Center website and then hours later on the building, I chose to cancel our concert,” Redd said, according to AP.

The jazz performer is not the only artist who has called off a scheduled appearance at the center since Trump became more involved with the historic venue in his second term. According to AP, both Issa Rae and Lin-Manuel Miranda have also canceled shows this year.

In a statement to Fox News, Roma Daravi, vice president of public relations for the Kennedy Center, said in part, “Any artist canceling their show at the Trump Kennedy Center over political differences isn’t courageous or principled — they are selfish, intolerant, and have failed to meet the basic duty of a public artist: to perform for all people.”

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