A billionaire tech executive funneled $591 million into far-left U.S. activist groups over eight years — and his operations are now under federal grand jury investigation for potential foreign agent violations, according to congressional testimony and court records.
Neville Singham, who sold software firm ThoughtWorks for $785 million in 2017, distributed the funds through six nonprofits to roughly 2,000 organizations between 2017 and 2025, per a 2026 House Financial Services subcommittee hearing examining what lawmakers called “Trojan Horses” operating inside America.
The largest single recipient was the Justice and Education Fund, Inc., a New York grant-making hub, which received $68.7 million. The People’s Forum, a New York organizing and events hub, received $22.44 million. Tricontinental Ltd., a Massachusetts-based research and messaging outfit, received $16.76 million, and CodePink, the anti-war activist group, received $1.33 million.
CodePink co-founder Jodie Evans is married to Singham. CBS News and multiple outlets report CodePink softened its public position on China — including on Uyghur genocide allegations — after the funding relationship began.
Singham is under grand jury investigation in the Southern District of New York, with the inquiry reportedly expanding from Foreign Agent Registration Act (FARA) violations into tax and money-laundering questions.
The Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) and its ANSWER Coalition arm operate in the same organizing space — anti-ICE, anti-Israel, and pro-Cuba/Venezuela campaigns — and share personnel and platforms with the Singham-funded outlets, though PSL’s own funding is less thoroughly documented.
Congressional witnesses Christine Balling and Michael Gonzalez characterized the network’s aim as working to “disrupt and destroy from within.”
Documented Common Cause
Islamist-linked and far-left networks have repeatedly co-organized on two issues: opposition to Israel and opposition to immigration enforcement. CAIR chapters, PSL/ANSWER, and Singham-funded outlets have appeared as co-sponsors or co-promoters of the same protest actions and campaigns since 2023, per event listings and the organizations’ own public materials.
Both clusters also independently produce messaging that foreign adversary states — China on Xinjiang and Taiwan, Iran on Israel, Cuba on sanctions — would regard as favorable.
In August 2026, the State Department sanctioned Autistici/Inventati, an Italy-based encrypted communications provider, after finding it supplied digital infrastructure used by both Portland-area Antifa accounts and by accounts linked to Hamas, PFLP, and Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. That represents a documented shared-vendor relationship, not a command relationship.
What Comes Next
Four developments will determine whether the far-left funding network faces legal consequences:
The outcome of the SDNY Singham grand jury, which will either produce an indictment establishing FARA or tax violations or close without charges.
Whether Florida’s CAIR designation proceeds and whether any federal designation follows the Texas and Florida state actions.
Further A/I Collective-style disclosures showing shared infrastructure or funding across the Islamist and far-left clusters.
DoD FARA enforcement patterns following the 2025 Bondi memo and NSPM-7, which reportedly tightened enforcement.
The analysis concludes that several distinct domestic and foreign-linked networks have documented, sometimes overlapping records of hostility to American constitutional order. At least one of them — CCP united front and IRGC-linked operations — meets the original definition of a fifth column. At least two more — the CAIR/Muslim Brotherhood cluster and the Singham-funded left ecosystem — have court records, government designations, or congressional financial trails that go well beyond ordinary political disagreement.
What is not yet documented is a unified command linking them together.
