How Markwayne Mullin, Trump's DHS pick, made millions in Congress.
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Mullin sold a Stilwell property to the Cherokee Nation in 2024 for $1.5 million. The purchase price was nearly twice the assessed value.
STILWELL, OK – In 2017, a company owned by then-U.S. Rep. Markwayne Mullin paid $99,000 for a half-acre empty lot along the highway that runs through Stilwell, a small city in far eastern Oklahoma near Mullin's hometown.
Mullin's family later built a two-story restaurant on the site, where they served a country-style menu of comfort food alongside fresh bakery goods and coffee bar. After just four years in business, however, the restaurant shuttered in 2024.
Mullin found an immediate buyer. About a week after the restaurant closed, the Cherokee Nation purchased the entire property for $1.5 million, which at the time was about $700,000 above the property's assessed value.
What prompted a sale price so much higher than the assessed value, even with a developed restaurant on it, is unclear. But it points to one of many ways Mullin has sharply increased his wealth since joining Congress in 2013. The land sale to the Cherokee Nation was one of several large financial gains made that year by Mullin, who reported making at least $9 million in 2024.
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