Federal prosecutors are investigating whether technology entrepreneur and political donor Neville Roy Singham used a network of nonprofit organizations and financial entities to unlawfully move hundreds of millions of dollars into activist groups operating in the United States and abroad, according to reports by Fox News Digital and the New York Post.
The investigation, being conducted by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Southern District of New York, reportedly includes a federal grand jury that has issued subpoenas seeking bank records and other financial documents as prosecutors examine whether crimes such as money laundering, wire fraud, bank fraud or other financial offenses may have occurred.
No criminal charges have been announced, and the reported grand jury proceedings remain confidential.
Focus on financial transactions
According to Fox News Digital, investigators are tracing how money allegedly flowed through donor-advised funds, shell companies and nonprofit organizations before reaching a broader network of political advocacy groups.
The inquiry is examining whether that financial structure violated federal law by concealing the origin, movement or ultimate destination of the funds. According to Fox News Digital, prosecutors have already presented evidence to the grand jury, which has begun issuing subpoenas seeking bank records and other financial documents from organizations connected to Singham.
Goldman Sachs philanthropic fund under scrutiny
One aspect of the reported investigation focuses on a donor-advised philanthropic fund administered by Goldman Sachs.
According to Fox News Digital, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent met earlier this year with Goldman Sachs Chairman and CEO David Solomon to discuss the firm's role in administering a charitable fund through which Singham allegedly directed more than $110 million in donations.
Fox News Digital reported that federal officials sought the bank's cooperation as investigators examined the movement of those funds and the financial transactions associated with Singham's network.
Goldman Sachs has denied any wrongdoing. In a statement provided to Fox News Digital, the bank said all grants from Singham's donor-advised fund were made to organizations recognized by the Internal Revenue Service as tax-exempt nonprofits. The firm added that no distributions had been made from the account since August 2023 and that the donor-advised fund was closed in early 2024.
Years of scrutiny culminate in federal investigation
The reported Justice Department investigation follows years of scrutiny surrounding Singham's extensive financial support for left-wing activist organizations.
Questions about Singham's global funding network predate the current federal probe by several years. In January 2022, New Lines Magazine journalists Alexander Reid Ross and Courtney Dobson published an investigation tracing tens of millions of dollars flowing through nonprofit organizations that promoted pro-Beijing narratives and supported groups aligned with Singham's political agenda.
The story gained broader international attention in August 2023, when The New York Times published an investigation describing how Singham allegedly financed a global network of nonprofit organizations, media outlets and activist groups that promoted narratives favorable to the Chinese government while operating across multiple continents. The newspaper reported that the network relied on nonprofit organizations and intermediary entities to distribute funding to projects in the United States, Europe, Africa, Asia and Latin America.
ADN Cuba documented Singham's ties to Cuba
Long before the reported federal investigation, ADN Cuba examined Neville Roy Singham's connections to Cuba and the activist networks that later became prominent during the anti-Israel protests on U.S. college campuses.
In May 2024, during the anti-Israel demonstrations at Columbia University, ADN Cuba became the first Latin American news outlet to investigate and document the connections between Singham's activist network, the Cuban government and organizations involved in the campus protests. The investigation identified financial and organizational links between Singham-backed groups and activists with longstanding ties to Havana.
ADN Cuba also traced Singham's relationship with Cuba back decades through his father, Archibald W. Singham, a political scientist and leading intellectual of the Non-Aligned Movement. Public records show that Archibald Singham became one of the movement's most influential scholars, publishing extensively on non-alignment and the developing world.
Circa 1980: Dictator Fidel Castro meets with Archibald ("Archie") Singham.
According to former Cuban officials interviewed by ADN Cuba, Archibald Singham developed close relationships with Cuban diplomats assigned to Havana's mission to the United Nations in New York during the 1970s and later traveled to Cuba at the invitation of senior Cuban officials, including Ricardo Alarcón. Those officials told ADN Cuba that Singham later met Fidel Castro as his relationship with the Cuban government deepened. Photographs reviewed by ADN Cuba document meetings between Archibald Singham and Castro during visits to the island.
After selling the software consulting company ThoughtWorks in 2017 for an estimated $785 million, Neville Singham emerged as one of the world's largest financial backers of left-wing activist organizations. Based in Shanghai, he has publicly praised the Chinese Communist Party, advocated what he describes as a "new world order," and invoked Mao Zedong's concept of a "people's war" in speeches delivered in China.
Since 2017, Singham has been married to Jodie Evans, co-founder of CODEPINK, an activist organization that has repeatedly defended the governments of Cuba, China and Iran. According to reports on the federal investigation, Evans' role within organizations linked to Singham's funding network is also being examined by investigators.
Justice and Education Fund among organizations previously examined
Among the organizations previously identified in reporting on Singham's funding network is the Justice and Education Fund, a New York-based nonprofit whose board includes Manolo De Los Santos, executive director of The People's Forum. ADN Cuba has previously documented De Los Santos' repeated participation in events organized by the Cuban government and organizations linked to Havana.
In an investigation published earlier this month, ADN Cuba documented De Los Santos' participation in a March 2024 event in Havana alongside Bassel Ismail Salem, the Cuba representative of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), and other activists connected to organizations that have collaborated with Cuba's Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP).
The investigation also documented public records showing that the California nonprofit Association for Investment in Popular Action Committees (AIPAC)—which is unrelated to the pro-Israel lobbying organization bearing the same acronym—made donations to the Justice and Education Fund, linking the nonprofit to a broader network of organizations associated with Singham.
According to Fox News Digital, federal investigators are now examining whether funds moved through intermediary organizations before being redistributed to activist groups in the United States and abroad as part of the financial network under scrutiny.
Congressional scrutiny preceded criminal probe
The reported Justice Department investigation follows months of congressional scrutiny of Singham's financial network and its ties to left-wing activist organizations operating in the United States and abroad.
House Republicans have alleged that Singham financed organizations that promoted narratives aligned with the Chinese Communist Party while supporting protest movements and political activism in the United States. Congressional inquiries have also examined groups including the Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL), the ANSWER Coalition and CODEPINK, several of which have publicly defended the governments of China, Cuba and Iran.
On Monday, House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Jason Smith said Singham had abused the tax-exempt nonprofit system to finance political activism, adding that he should be held accountable if federal investigators determine that any laws were violated.
The reported grand jury investigation represents the most significant federal scrutiny yet of a financial network that has been the subject of years of investigative reporting, congressional inquiries and academic research. Neither the Justice Department nor the Treasury Department has publicly commented on the reported investigation, and no criminal charges have been announced.
