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Today on Forbes, How Rich is Homeland Security Secretary Christy Noam?

Christy Noem made headlines in April when a thief snatched her purse inside a Washington, D.C. restaurant

and made off with $3,000 in cash, prompting a question, exactly how much money does the Homeland

Security Secretary have? Forbes estimates about $5 million, this figure after analyzing property

records and financial filings. The root of the fortune begins 1,200 miles away from the

nation's capital, in eastern South Dakota,

where waves of grain fill the landscape and houses pop up every once in a while.

The family farm where Gnome grew up sits outside of Hazel, population 132, surrounded by cropland.

Her current home lies in Castlewood, population 698, on a 200-acre plot of ranchland.

And in the tiny town of Bryant, population 471, lies an unassuming, single-story office building

that serves as the key to the Gnome family's finances, housing her husband's Noam insurance, which has generated

$1.1 million in salary and profits for him over the past two years, selling insurance policies

on homes, cars, farms, and lives. Brian Noem, Christy's husband, purchased the agency from a South

Dakota bank in 2010. The cash flow seems to have taken off starting around 2015,

when, on Nome's disclosures filed while she served in Congress,

she reported that the income jumped from a range of $50,000 to $100,000 in 2014

to $100,000 to $1 million the following year, never falling back again.

Today, Forbes estimates that if Brian were to sell his agency, he might get $2 million

for it after debt.

That makes it the single biggest chunk of the Trump Cabinet member's personal portfolio.

Other major assets include a car wash co-owned by Brian, their home and land, and an eclectic

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