Federal Probe Targets $591M Pro-China Propaganda Network
A Connecticut-born tech billionaire living in Shanghai has funneled $591 million through roughly 2,000 organizations worldwide, federal investigators and congressional committees allege, in a sprawling pro-CCP influence operation.
While Cuban families huddled in darkness during a nationwide blackout, a delegation of American activists checked into suites at Havana's Gran Hotel Bristol — where rooms run $130 to $520 a night — their luxury stay funded by a $591 million network bankrolled by a U.S. tech tycoon now living in Shanghai and aligned with the Chinese Communist Party. The visit drew sharp condemnation from Cuban dissidents.
The activists — including CodePink co-founder Jodie Evans and People's Forum executive director Manolo De Los Santos — arrived as part of the "Nuestra America Convoy" while Cuba endured an island-wide power outage. Their five-star accommodations stood in stark contrast to ordinary Cubans facing food shortages and medical crises in the dark.
The investigation reveals how a former American tech executive now orchestrates a multi-decade campaign to destabilize U.S. institutions using tax-exempt charities as weapons. What appears as humanitarian activism masks a sophisticated geopolitical operation bankrolled by a billionaire living under CCP protection in Shanghai.
Behind the luxury Cuban stay stands Neville Roy Singham, a Connecticut-born tech billionaire who sold his software company ThoughtWorks for $785 million in 2017 and relocated to Shanghai. Singham has funneled $591 million through an estimated 2,000 organizations across five continents, according to a Fox News Digital investigation analyzing 223 transactions from 2017 to 2025.
The network operates through five levels, with $278 million documented flowing from three entities into six core U.S. nonprofits, including CodePink, People's Forum, and BreakThrough BT Media. People's Forum alone received at least $22.4 million from Singham's network, while CodePink draws roughly one-quarter of its budget from the same sources.
Singham's operation maintains direct ties to Chinese state media. He shares office space in Shanghai with Maku Group, a Chinese media firm that received over $6 million from Singham's Justice and Education Fund between 2021 and 2023 for "production of online news program." In July 2023, Singham attended a Communist Party workshop on international promotion of the CCP.
Federal authorities are now investigating whether Singham's network violates foreign influence laws. The House Oversight Committee voted to subpoena Singham in January 2026, while the House Ways and Means Committee referred 11 organizations to the IRS for possible tax-exempt revocation in February. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, who filed the subpoena motion, stated Singham has been funding extremist organizations fueling division and civil unrest, particularly around last summer's ICE riots.
"Mr. Singham is actively fueling CCP propaganda and financing indoctrination efforts abroad by providing hundreds of millions of dollars to groups that mix progressive advocacy with CCP talking points," House Ways and Means Chairman Jason Smith stated Feb. 12. "It's no wonder that the People's Forum echoes Communist Party propaganda. One of their largest donors is a wealthy former U.S. tech executive living in Shanghai who is cozy with the Chinese Communist Party."
The network specifically targets American college students for recruitment, turning campuses into ideological battlegrounds. People's Forum trains activists while BreakThrough BT Media amplifies anti-U.S. narratives to young audiences. This campus focus represents a strategic effort to influence the next generation of American leaders. "Non-profits were never intended to organize street violence, clash with police, shut down infrastructure, block hospitals and airports or serve as proxies for foreign governments", said Adam Sohn, co-founder of research firm Narravance.
The State Department has formally identified People's Forum and CodePink as vectors of threat due to their alignment with the People's Republic of China. Secretary of State Marco Rubio warned that organizations tied to Singham appear to have been receiving direction from the CCP, describing the operation as "an elaborate dark money network, channeling funds through non-profits like the United Community Fund and Justice and Education Fund, which have minimal real-world footprints." House Oversight Chairman James Comer wrote in a letter to Singham: "Mr. Singham, who resides in the People's Republic of China, has a long track-record of assisting far-left entities, such as Code Pink, that oppose U.S. interests and support U.S. adversaries."
Goldman Sachs terminated Singham's donor-advised fund in February 2024 amid growing scrutiny of the network's activities. The Justice Department has not publicly confirmed whether it has opened a Foreign Agents Registration Act investigation, though multiple senators have requested one.
Cuban dissidents were unsparing in their contempt for the activists' luxury visit during their nation's crisis. "We are not a theme park. Go do ideological tourism somewhere else. We are suffering here," said journalist Yoani Sánchez. Cuban exile Mayra Dominguez called the delegation "a gigantic mockery of the entire Cuban people. The left visits Cuba as if it were a party at a zoo and they go to admire the misery from a luxury hotel. It is outrageous."
As federal probes deepen, the same organizations that championed communist Cuba and Hamas now face intense congressional scrutiny for potentially violating U.S. laws on foreign influence and nonprofit transparency — their five-star Havana receipts a vivid symbol of who, exactly, funds their cause.