When Americans watched anti-Trump protesters flood the streets, anti-Israel demonstrators shut down college campuses, and Marxist organizers mobilize crowds against the U.S. government, most assumed it was organic. Some of it wasn't. Some of it was funded by a man in Shanghai, routed through Goldman Sachs and disposable shell companies, structured in the textbook stages of money laundering, and directed at an estimated 2,000 activist groups operating inside America.
That man is Neville Roy Singham. He sold his American IT consulting firm ThoughtWorks for $785 million in 2017, moved to Shanghai, and pumped $285 million into a sprawling network of Marxist, socialist, and communist protest organizations operating inside the United States. The money didn't go to soup kitchens. It went to organize protests against President Trump, America, and Israel — to fuel chaos across the country from a base in Communist China.
Now a federal grand jury in Manhattan has issued subpoenas. U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton for the Southern District of New York is running the probe, authorized by Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche as part of a broader crackdown on wire fraud, bank fraud, and money laundering in the multibillion-dollar nonprofit sector.
Most Americans think of foreign influence operations as Russian bots on social media. This is something different — and significantly larger. Federal investigators have tracked $591 million across 223 transactions on five continents between 2017 and 2025. Of that, $278 million flowed directly into organizations investigators say were "sowing discord" inside the United States. For context, $278 million is more than most political action committees spend in an entire election cycle. The difference is that PACs disclose their donors. This money moved in the dark.
The structure followed the three classic stages of money laundering — not by accident. Placement from Shanghai. Layering through intermediary entities. Integration into the activist network. Singham moved $164 million to a shell corporation called Mutod LLC and another $3.5 million to Likewise Conceptions LLC — both now defunct. Another $110 million went into a Goldman Sachs Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund, giving the operation the institutional legitimacy of one of Wall Street's most prestigious names. From those intermediaries, the cash fanned out: $167.5 million to People's Support Foundation, $68.7 million to Justice and Education Fund, $22.4 million to People's Forum, $16.7 million to Tricontinental, $1.3 million to CodePink Women for Peace, and $1 million to Breakthrough News. Every one of those recipients holds 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status.
The organizational chart reads like a Marxist franchise operation. People's Forum hosts events featuring open communist rhetoric. The ANSWER Coalition operates alongside the Party for Socialism and Liberation. Tricontinental publishes explicitly anti-Western content. Breakthrough News functions as the network's media arm.
The man funding all of it hasn't been subtle about where he stands. On November 13, 2025, at the Global South Academic Forum at East China Normal University — a school administered by the Chinese Communist Party — Singham called the United States "fascist," endorsed Xi Jinping's vision of a "new world order," and invoked Mao Zedong's "people's war" strategy. He delivered that speech from the Golden Tulip Hotel in Shanghai, the city he chose over the country that made him a near-billionaire.
CodePink is where the personal and political merge. Singham married CodePink co-founder Jodie Evans in February 2017 — the same year he sold ThoughtWorks and established the shell corporations. Evans has emerged as a target of the investigation, sitting on the boards of many of the organizations her husband bankrolled. The arrangement is straightforward: husband funds from Shanghai, wife distributes from U.S. boardrooms.
The people running the funded organizations aren't shy about what they believe. Brian Becker, described as a longtime American communist leader, runs the ANSWER Coalition and the Party for Socialism and Liberation — both recipients. His son Ben Becker serves as editor-in-chief of Breakthrough News, another funded outlet. Vijay Prashad, a Marxist academic, founded Tricontinental. Board member Manola De Los Santos is a self-avowed communist. These aren't labels applied by critics. These are their own descriptions.
Senator Marsha Blackburn put the mechanism plainly: "When you talk about the nonprofits, you have to look at how China [uses] our nonprofit 501(c)(3) status organizations to work as CCP influencers." The House Oversight Committee went further in a June 2025 letter, identifying Singham as "the main backer behind" the Party for Socialism and Liberation and accusing him of "funding and supporting various extremist entities in the United States with the aim of causing destruction and division in our country."
Goldman Sachs has tried to distance itself. The bank stopped making distributions from Singham's fund in August 2023 and closed the account entirely in February 2024 — without public explanation. In November 2025, Goldman CEO David Solomon met with He Lifeng, a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China Central Committee, in Beijing. By mid-May 2026, Solomon had joined a Trump delegation to China. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent reportedly delivered a blunt ultimatum to the bank regarding cooperation with the federal probe.
The architecture is worth understanding clearly. A man sells his company for $785 million, moves to Shanghai, calls America fascist, endorses Xi Jinping and invokes Mao Zedong, routes $285 million through a Wall Street philanthropy fund and disposable shell companies, and the money lands in tax-exempt nonprofits that organize protests, publish communist media, and advocate for the political interests of the Chinese Communist Party — all inside the United States, all tax-deductible.
Shell companies that no longer exist. A philanthropy fund that cut ties once investigators started looking. A 172-page internal document outlining a "theory of change." And $591 million that moved through 223 transactions before anybody in law enforcement asked where it was going.