Marxist political influencer Hasan Piker and leaders of the far-left organization Code Pink were hit with federal administrative subpoenas over the weekend, forcing them to disclose all their secret funding channels and communications with the Cuban regime. The move, revealed Saturday night by Fox News, marks an aggressive escalation by the Justice and Treasury departments in Washington against foreign influence networks operating inside the United States—networks funded with hundreds of millions of dollars by a Marxist billionaire to spread anti-American narratives and undermine national security.
According to official investigation documents, U.S. authorities are examining whether American far-left activists who traveled to Cuba in March violated the Cuban Assets Control Regulations. These laws impose strict restrictions on American citizens, barring them from conducting financial transactions, exporting goods, or undertaking unauthorized travel, except for narrow exceptions for journalists or defined humanitarian projects.
Findings show that delegation members, who openly boasted about their trip on social media, stayed at a hotel listed on the State Department’s Cuba Restricted List because it’s operated directly by the communist government.
The investigation centers on billionaire Neville Roy Singham. A Fox News investigation revealed that Singham funneled close to $278 million in dark money to nonprofits spreading pro-China and pro-Cuba rhetoric inside the U.S., and even organizing violent street protests.
Singham’s vast network includes Code Pink, which received $1.33 million from him immediately after he married co-founder Jodie Evans, who is also under investigation in this case. These organizations led the caravan to Cuba, which included some 650 delegates, among them prominent members of the Democratic Socialists of America. Sources said the investigation also includes Isra Hirsi, daughter of Congresswoman Ilhan Omar, and investigators are examining whether Omar personally and illegally financed her daughter’s trip.
Hasan Piker, considered one of the most powerful political influencers on the live streaming platform Twitch, posted a photo on March 10 with the caption: “I’m going to Cuba.” In a livestream this week, Piker criticized the Trump administration and called the federal indictment against Cuban leader Raúl Castro “a legally invalid fraud,” while calling the president “a playground bully.” Piker, known for past statements that “America deserved 9/11,” recently drew sharp criticism from Democratic Congressman Ritchie Torres, who accused him of spreading virulent antisemitic rhetoric and encouraging hatred since the events of October 7.
Medea Benjamin, the second main suspect, is known in Washington as a provocative activist who routinely bursts into official congressional hearings and defense industry conferences with shouts, slogans, and radical speeches. Benjamin, who presents herself as an “anti-war activist,” maintains a consistent pattern of spreading messages that condemn the United States and glorify authoritarian regimes and dictatorships, from the Islamic Republic of Iran to the Chinese Communist Party to the Cuban regime.
Legal experts told Fox News that the current subpoenas could determine whether federal prosecutors will pursue serious criminal proceedings under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, or whether the matter will remain at the civil level.
While the Treasury Department can impose heavy financial penalties under a “strict liability” standard—punishment without needing to prove malicious intent—the Justice Department must prove in criminal court that defendants knowingly and intentionally violated the law to conceal or evade prohibited transactions with a state sponsor of terror.
American law absolutely prohibits U.S. citizens from conducting commercial relations, transferring funds, or directly financing entities associated with Cuba’s communist regime, due to the country’s historic designation as an official sponsor of international terrorism.
Last March, a large group of radical leftist and Marxist activists from the United States joined an international network of communism supporters and embarked on a publicized trip to Havana under the banner “Our America Caravan.” Delegation activists presented the trip as a humanitarian activity of “solidarity” with the Cuban people, and even met with senior officials and delivered physical supplies to them.
The current federal investigation opened after U.S. intelligence agencies identified that this network of organizations is not operating independently, but is managed and funded with hundreds of millions of dollars by a complex financial network of shell companies led by billionaire Neville Roy Singham, who maintains close ties with the Chinese Communist Party.