Steve Forbes Compares Ilhan Omar to Al Capone and Tony Soprano [WATCH]

Forbes Chairman and Editor-in-Chief Steve Forbes raised concerns about the finances of Congresswoman Ilhan Omar and her husband during an interview with Lisa Kennedy Montgomery, pointing to reported issues surrounding their business holdings and a rapid increase in wealth.

Lisa Kennedy Montgomery referenced Omar’s response to scrutiny over her financial growth, stating, “Okay, that was far left Congresswoman Ilhan Omar claiming the Justice Department and Congress probing her sudden skyrocketing wealth to $30 million in just one year, that they have a problem with her living the American dream.”

She added, “You heard her say, the goddamn United States of America.”

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Montgomery continued, “We’ve got new questions on where she and her husband got all that money.”

She then cited reporting tied to Omar’s husband’s investment firm, saying, “Forbes magazine. Your magazine has reported this too, that the state of Delaware and Washington DC canceled the registrations for Omar’s husband’s investment firm, Rose lake for not paying its back taxes.”

Montgomery detailed the reported tax issues, stating, “We saw it owed more than 400,000 to Delaware and nearly 1800 to DC.”

She questioned the firm’s reported valuation, saying, “She’s claiming it’s worth 25 million from less than a grand a year before.”

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Montgomery added, “How can his investment firm not afford to pay taxes?”

She continued, “It’s supposedly worth an estimated 75 million, 150 million.”

Montgomery concluded, “This is really weird stuff.”

Forbes responded by disputing the characterization of the situation, stating, “Well, weird is not the word for it.”

He added, “There’s another word for it, called crooked, and that’s why we have to have an investigation into this.”

Forbes referenced prior scrutiny, stating, “As you know, the Biden administration examined, started examining her finances, and then that of her husband and so, so, surprise, surprise, that investigation went nowhere.”

He continued, “But it’s amazing how people can go into Congress and then become these entrepreneurial investing geniuses.”

Forbes added, “Where they come in, she had under $1,000 of net worth, and her husband didn’t have much, and suddenly, now they’re multi millionaires.”

He questioned the source of the wealth, stating, “Is there a money laundering operation here?”

Forbes pointed to reported business activity, saying, “In terms of the firms themselves, they have a sketchy background over that winery in California that she and her husband own.”

He added, “Where did that come from? Where’s the wine there?”

Forbes stated, “Nobody can seem to find it.”

He continued, “So there’s a lot of smelly stuff here.”

Forbes said, “And that’s why, in the American dream, her version of the American Dream is the Al Capone version of the American dream, Tony Soprano version of the American dream.”

He added, “And that is, steal it.”

Forbes continued, “Steal it from the taxpayers.”

He stated, “And so there’s a lot of stuff here.”

Forbes concluded, “And so when somebody cloaks themselves, and oh, the American dream.”

He added, “And so you have numbers like this, from minus 1000 to 30, 40 million, you know, something is not right.”

Montgomery continued by raising additional concerns about the couple’s business operations, stating, “Yes, she’s also also like, you know, blaming people, bullying, doing, race baiting, race bullying.”

She added, “There’s no evidence, public evidence.”

Montgomery stated, “There’s even a winery she valued at a 5 million.”

She continued, “His investment firm is real. Well, it’s supposedly real.”

Montgomery added, “It’s DC headquarters appear to share office space at a we work Steve.”

She said, “There’s no track record of his firm, managing money, doing M and A deals, no clients.”

Montgomery continued, “We see investment deals or any work it’s done.”

She added, “They say they do work in 80 nations, operating in there’s no SEC registrations from them as investment advisors.”

Montgomery concluded, “What is going on here? This increasingly look sketchy, both the winery and his investment firm.”

Forbes responded by questioning the legitimacy of the businesses, stating, “Yeah, the winery may not exist, and the firm may be just really a name only.”

He added, “As you say, a WeWork office, big deal.”

Forbes reiterated his call for further scrutiny, stating, “So that’s why the investigation needs to be done.”

He concluded, “And suddenly all that 30 million, I think you’re going to find, I’ll make a speculation and prediction that 30 million came from sources that were illegal, period.”

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