Cuba’s Cheerleaders Finally Face Gov Investigation

On paper, we have all sorts of sanctions on enemy nations like Cuba, North Korea or Iran, in practice there’s a revolving door of influencers, celebrities and media types who prop them up. The Cuba situation is especially egregious with half of Hollywood having sat down to chats with Castro and the current mayor of LA, among many other elected officials and activists, having gone to Cuba with Marxist front groups.

After the latest round of this stuff, the Trump administration is signaling that there may be consequences.

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

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.

This is a definite vulnerability because it’s an open secret that Cuban front groups aligned with the regime have been coordinating with their American allies around visits and propaganda.

This is rich soil that hasn’t been touched since the Cold War and hardly even then. The Left has gotten complacent and arrogant. And now it just might be vulnerable.

Code Pink has become notorious for its ties to a radical group operating out of China. And this opens the door to fishing for information about its operations.

The story of Code Pink’s transformation into a Beijing mouthpiece begins with Evans’ marriage to a Maoist millionaire named Neville Roy Singham. Born to a Sri-Lankan radical professor father affiliated with The Nation magazine who had palled around with Castro and to a Chinese academic mother, and raised in Chicago, Singham’s story had echoes of Obama.

Singham didn’t just marry Evans, his nonprofits have provided $1.4 million: a quarter of Code Pink’s budget. And the husband of Code Pink’s co-founder operates from a Shanghai office that he shares with the Maku Group whose red and yellow offices commemorate the “centenary of the founding of the Communist Party of China” based on the “little red light of stars” and now sets out as a “revolutionary force” that “sets out from the East, to connect the world”.

The walls are decorated with Maoist slogans such as “criticism and self-criticism” and “collectivism” as part of its mission of creating content for “progressive think tanks.”

A close look at Code Pink’s operations and its financials and logistics might be very revealing indeed.