Treasury subpoenas Hasan Piker and CodePink cofounder in Cuba sanctions probe

Federal officials have served subpoenas to Marxist political streamer 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.

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.

The subpoenas, called Requests for Information, seek financial, logistical and communications information revolving around trips the two made to Cuba in March with delegations of the Nuestra América Convoy. The convoy brought supplies to Cuba's ruling Communist Party from a global network of communist sympathizers, activists and influencers, according to sources familiar with the matter.

The investigation is part of a broader effort by officials at the 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.

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

In mid-March, organizations in the Singham network, from the Venceremos Brigade to People's Forum, led the Nuestra América Convoy. The convoy included an estimated 650 delegates from 33 countries and 120 organizations, including the Democratic Socialists of America.

The Office of Foreign Assets Control investigation is part of a broader dragnet that includes as many as 40 American citizens who joined foreign nationals, including Brazilian activist Thiago Avila. Additional subpoenas are expected.

U.S. law imposes broad restrictions on financial transactions involving Cuba, primarily through the Cuban Asset Control Regulations administered by the Office of Foreign Assets Control. Those rules generally prohibit unlicensed travel-related transactions and the export of goods or services to Cuba, with limited exceptions for journalism, humanitarian projects, educational programs and certain activities meant to support the Cuban people.

On March 10, Piker posted a photo of himself on Instagram with the message: "I'M GOING TO CUBA." In an Instagram post from the trip, Evans smiled widely in Havana, wearing a red-and-white Palestinian scarf around her neck, while standing beside Piker.

On a livestream this week, Piker said that the Justice Department's indictment of Cuban leader Raúl Castro is a "sham" with "no legal standing," designed to create a pretext for escalating U.S. pressure on the island. Piker argued that Trump is acting like a "playground bully."

Benjamin has made her mark as an activist who stages media spectacles at congressional hearings, defense industry trade conferences and the homes of government officials, yelling invectives, chants and slogans. She brands herself as "anti-war," but runs a pattern of messages denouncing the U.S. and uplifting communist and authoritarian regimes from Iran to China and Cuba.

The larger group under scrutiny includes Isra Hirsi, the daughter of Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., according to sources. Investigators are examining whether Omar may have funded her daughter's travel to Cuba. Omar did not respond to an earlier request for comment about her daughter's trip.

Piker, Benjamin, Singham, Evans and CodePink did not respond to requests for comment. The Office of Foreign Assets Control is also investigating CodePink's DC Coordinator, Olivia DiNucci, a former Division I basketball star from Emerson College in Boston. She joined a convoy led by Brazilian activist Avila.

Federal investigators are examining whether the caravan's financing, logistics, coordination or delivery of goods crossed legal lines under U.S. sanctions law, sources said. Legal experts told Fox News Digital that the subpoenas could determine whether prosecutors pursue a criminal case under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act or whether the matter remains a civil enforcement issue handled by the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control.