As a leftist network of nonprofits organized protests against President Donald Trump’s extradition of Nicolás Maduro from Venezuela, Rep. Anna Paulina Luna urged a House committee Wednesday to subpoena a major donor behind the network, and the committee voted to issue the subpoena.
Luna, a Florida Republican, moved to subpoena Neville Roy Singham, who earned his fortune by founding an American IT company but now lives in Shanghai, China, and funds leftist groups rallying against Immigration and Customs Enforcement, against Israel, and for Maduro.
“I’d like to make a motion to subpoena Neville Singham, a U.S. billionaire with reported ties to the CCP that’s been funding extremist organizations, fueling division and civil unrest in this country, especially regarding the ICE riots last summer,” Luna said in a hearing about Minnesota fraud held by the House Subcommittee on Oversight and Government Reform.
The committee’s ranking member, Rep. Robert Garcia, D-Calif., offered an amendment to the motion, moving to subpoena Lex Wexner—a former associate of convicted sex predator Jeffrey Epstein—as well.
Luna defended her motion, stating that Singham embraces “anti-American ideology” and funds “certain groups that actually sow discord in this country with no efforts to actually resolve the issues, only to get us to fight one another.”
She noted that then-Sen. Marco Rubio, R-Fla., referred Singham to the Justice Department in July 2024 for violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act, suggesting that he is a foreign agent for China.
Luna further noted that if Singham refuses to testify, she would make a motion for “enhanced contempt.”
The committee passed both the motion to add Wexner and the motion to subpoena Singham, by voice vote.
Singham’s Wife
Mike Gonzalez, a senior fellow in national security policy at The Heritage Foundation, suggested that the committee should also subpoena Jodie Evans, Singham’s wife and a co-founder of the organization Code Pink.
“I don’t think he’s ever here in America, but his wife is,” Gonzalez told The Daily Signal in an interview Wednesday.
Gonzalez, who has published numerous reports on Singham’s network and its ties to foreign actors in China and Venezuela, added, “It would be good to have clarity on what he does.”
“It would be good for him to show up and give his side of the story and tell the United States what exactly he’s doing, if he’s doing anything, and why,” the senior fellow added. He noted that Singham has constitutional rights and can spend his money on political causes, but he warned that financing violence across state lines would violate the law.
“If he’s not doing any of that, he should come and say that,” Gonzalez added.
Anti-Trump Protests
Organizations tied to Singham launched into action in the early hours of Saturday morning, mobilizing protests in the wake of Trump’s extradition of Maduro from Venezuela. Some of the leaders in the Singham network have personally met with Maduro.
According to Gonzalez, Singham has funded The People’s Forum; the Act Now to Stop War & End Racism, or “ANSWER” Coalition; the Party for Socialism and Liberation; Code Pink; and other groups. Before the Venezuela protests, these groups have organized and supported anti-Israel actions on college campuses.
Asra Nomani, an author and researcher on leftist movements, highlighted this network for Fox News Digital on Saturday.
“For years, this cell has fomented anti-American hate in the U.S. under the cover of ‘anti-war’ protests, rallying activists after the 9/11 attacks to condemn the U.S. response, appropriating ‘anti-racism’ protests after the 2020 killing of George Floyd, marching with Antifa agitators, organizing antisemitic campus encampments after the Oct. 7, 2023, attack on Israel by Hamas and activating ‘working-class Americans to support Maduro and his regime in a war against ‘U.S. imperialism,” she wrote.
The Daily Signal reached out to these organizations, as well as Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research–a Marxist think tank where Singham serves on the board–for comment about the potential subpoenas, but did not receive any responses by publication time.
Rep. Chip Roy, R-Texas, has called for a new House committee to investigate “the money, influence, and power behind the radical Left’s assault on America and the rule of law,” using full subpoena power, after the assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk.
Gonzalez noted that refusal to abide by a congressional subpoena is a misdemeanor punishable by a fine, prison time, or both.
