May 23, 2026 – Feds subpoena Hasan Piker, Medea Benjamin over Cuba trip and violating U.S. sanctions laws

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Federal officials have served subpoenas to Marxist political influencer Hasan Piker and CodePink cofounder Susan Medea Benjamin as part of a wider investigation into whether U.S. organizations and leaders violated U.S. laws and sanctions in supporting Cuba’s communist regime, Fox News Digital has learned.

Piker and Benjamin are among those caught in a federal inquiry into whether activists who traveled to Cuba in March violated U.S. sanctions laws through the financing, coordination or delivery of goods to Cuba, including potential contacts with Cuban government personnel or entities on the island. The administrative subpoenas were sent to the pair by the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control.

Hasan Piker, a Democratic Socialists of America member, and CodePink co-founder Jodie Evans meet in Havana, Cuba, as part of a “United Front” supporting the communist regime. (NO ACCESS EDGE/NNS/FNS/OUTKICK/CodePink)

The administrative subpoenas — called “Requests for Information,” or RFI — seek financial, logistical and communications information revolving around trips the two widely bragged about making to the island nation in March with delegations of the “Nuestra América Convoy,” or “Our America Convoy,” from a global network of communist sympathizers, activists and influencers who brought supplies to the country’s ruling Communist Party of Cuba, according to sources familiar with the matter.

The investigation is part of a broader effort by officials at Treasury, State and Justice departments to curb malign foreign influence operations inside the United States, particularly activities tied to support for political violence, extremist movements or acts the U.S. government classifies as terrorism. The scrutiny reflects growing concern among federal authorities and lawmakers over whether foreign actors and aligned organizations are attempting to shape American political discourse, mobilize activists, sow discord and normalize rhetoric that could encourage violence or undermine U.S. national security interests.

According to a Fox News Digital investigation, Singham has pumped $278 million into nonprofit groups that have pushed pro-China, pro-Cuba, anti-U.S. narratives and street protests for almost a decade, since his marriage in February 2017 to CodePink co-founder Jodie Evans, who is also being investigated for her role in the March trip. CodePink received $1.33 million from Singham after he married Evans.

In mid-March, organizations in the Singham network — from the Venceremos Brigade to People’s Forum, a hub for communist causes in New York City — were leaders of the Nuestra American Convoy, which included an estimated 650 delegates from 33 countries and 120 organizations. The organizations included Democratic Socialists of America, a U.S. nonprofit that promotes Piker as a headline member.

The investigation by the Office of Foreign Assets Control is part of a broader dragnet that includes as many as 40 American citizens who joined foreign nationals, including a controversial Brazil activist, Thiago Avila, who are part of a global network of anti-U.S. Marxists, communists and socialists. Additional subpoenas are expected.

The administrative subpoenas mark a serious escalation by the Trump administration against a far-left nonprofit activist network that has spent years defending communist regimes, from Cuba to China, while presenting its work as humanitarian aid, anti-war organizing and “solidarity” with people “oppressed” by the “imperialist” U.S “colonial power.”

(Read much more: Fox News, 5/23/2026)  (Archive)

Hasan Piker, CodePink, and Ilhan Omar’s daughter Isra Hirsi flew to Cuba on a so-called “humanitarian convoy” — and stayed in a 5-star hotel with its own generator while the entire country sat in the dark during Cuba’s worst energy crisis in 67 years.

Hasan told his audience the U.S. government “forces” Americans to stay in luxury hotels in Cuba. That’s not what the law says. The Cuban Assets Control Regulations (31 CFR § 515.209 and § 515.210) prohibit Americans from staying at properties owned by the Cuban government or military — they don’t require five-star accommodations. We pulled the actual federal code. The receipts don’t lie.

Meanwhile, Isra Hirsi — the daughter of Rep. Ilhan Omar — joined a delegation organized with help from Mariela Castro (Raúl Castro’s daughter), met with regime officials, and posted she was “honored to make history.” But where’s that energy for the people in her mother’s own district? Minnesota was ground zero for the Feeding Our Future fraud — roughly $1 billion stolen from programs meant to feed children. Where’s the convoy for them?

UPDATE 5/25/2026

Hasan Piker ADMITTED on stream that the Cuban government reached out through the embassy to his “middle man” with a special offer:

“If reliable internet is the only thing stopping Hasan from coming to Cuba, we can make it happen.”

He said: “The Cuban government actually hit my contact from the embassy… well not me, there’s a middle man there.”

This was during planning for the “Nuestra América Convoy” the activist trip where Hasan and CodePink delivered aid but stayed in nice hotels with power & internet while Cubans dealt with massive blackouts.

Now both Hasan and Medea Benjamin have been subpoenaed by the U.S. Treasury (OFAC) over potential sanctions violations and coordination with the Cuban regime.

The clip makes it crystal clear: this wasn’t just independent humanitarian work. The government wanted him there badly enough to solve his streaming problems.

He’s their asset.