Shanghai-based tycoon Neville Roy Singham's 'Squad,' Bernie Sanders donations resurface

A Shanghai-based tycoon known for pushing Chinese Communist Party talking points, whose activist network is flooding Capitol Hill this week, has directly funded some of the most powerful progressives in Congress, including members of "The Squad."

Federal Election Commission records show that Neville Roy Singham and his wife, CodePink co-founder Jodie Evans, have given more than a combined $47,000 to Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Reps. Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., and Chuy García, D-Ill.

Omar's campaign took $4,200 from the couple from 2019 to 2023, according to FEC records. Singham gave her campaign $2,700 in March 2019, just weeks after she took office, and Evans gave $1,500 in two contributions in November and December 2023. None of it has been refunded.

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Sanders' campaigns have taken in at least $6,800 from the couple, according to FEC records, most of it for his presidential bids. Singham gave $2,700 to Sanders' 2016 presidential campaign. Evans gave the 2016 campaign $2,800, of which it refunded $200, and at least $252 to his 2020 campaign in 2019. She also gave $1,250 to his Senate campaign committee, Friends of Bernie Sanders, in 2011.

García's campaign took in $1,000 from Singham in August 2018, according to FEC records. He was running for his first term in Congress at the time, after winning the Democratic primary for Illinois' 4th Congressional District, Singham's home city of Chicago. The campaign has not refunded the contribution.

Jayapal has received more from the couple than any other member of Congress, a net $35,700 from 2016 to 2022, according to FEC records. Singham gave her campaign $17,800 and none of it was refunded. Evans gave $22,900, and the campaign refunded $5,000 of it in three payments between 2020 and 2023, leaving $17,900. Most of the couple's money came in 2019 and 2021, including back-to-back maximum contributions from Singham in both years.

Under Federal Election Commission rules, a campaign has 10 days to decide whether to deposit a check or return it.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's, D-NY, campaign returned a $500 contribution from Evans through ActBlue on the day it arrived, Aug. 4, 2018, during her first run for Congress.

Fox News Digital reached out to the offices of Sanders, Jayapal, García and Ocasio-Cortez and Omar's office for comment but did not receive responses.

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After his wedding to Evans in 2017 and the sale of ThoughtWorks, the technology company he founded, Singham directed $285 million to nonprofits and media organizations, according to a Fox News Digital investigation. The People’s Forum received $22.4 million from Singham, while CodePink received $1.33 million. BreakThrough BT Media Inc., which operates BreakThrough News, received $1.098 million, according to tax filings. Singham and his wife, who are both American citizens, now live in Shanghai, China.

Organizations within the Singham network regularly participate in staged anti-ICE, anti-capitalist, anti-data centers and anti-Israel protests – many of which garner national and social media coverage.

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Last month, Evans and CodePink co-founder Medea Benjamin embarked on a China propaganda tour across the communist country.

The trip, according to an event promotion link for sign-up on the CodePink website, was 12 days and 11 nights in Shanghai, Chongqing, Zunyi, Loushanguan, Maotai Village and Guiyang with the cost of attendance between $3,000 and $4,000 depending on the total number of participants. The CodePink website said attendees will be "greeted by local Shanghai comrades," and a tour with Benjamin and Code Pink co-founder Jodie Evans is included.

"Explore China’s revolutionary history, while marveling at high-tech infrastructure and modern socialist development," the event description reads. "Highlights include Red Memorials, Historical Re-Enactments and Museums, Socialist Infrastructure, and Rural Revitalization."

Singham’s wife’s California-based nonprofit does not shy away from their mission to rebrand China as an ally – displaying the tagline "China is not our enemy" on their website while actively promoting the "revolutionary history" of the communist country.

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A slew of federal and congressional investigations have been opened into the Singham network, including a grand jury probe led by the Department of Justice and the Southern District of New York – though Singham has yet to be charged with any crime.

During a House Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on South and Central Asia committee hearing in September, Mike Gonzalez, a senior fellow at the Heritage Foundation, cited research saying Singham shares premises with Maku Cultural Communication, a Chinese communications firm that promotes a favorable image of China, and was photographed attending a Chinese Communist Party strategic communications workshop in 2023.

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In a video that Fox News Digital unearthed, Singham stood at the Golden Tulip Hotel in Shanghai during a November 2025 conference and expressed support for "a new world order that is based on multilateralism that President Xi and the CPC [Communist Party of China] and China have proposed."

Earlier this year, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent traveled to New York City for a meeting with Goldman Sachs Chairman and CEO David Solomon, and sources told Fox News Digital that Bessent gave a blunt ultimatum to Solomon.

Bessent told Solomon that Goldman Sachs could face scrutiny for alleged conspiracy in the funneling of the Singham money and urged Solomon to cooperate with federal investigators.

A person familiar with the meeting told Fox News Digital that the discussion wasn't contentious and that Solomon readily agreed to pledge his cooperation with the Justice Department investigation. A spokesperson for the bank said "all distributions from Mr. Singham’s donor-advised fund were made to legal nonprofits, as determined by the IRS. There have been no distributions from the account since August 2023, and it was closed in early 2024."

Fox News Digital reached out to Singham, CodePink and Evans but did not receive responses.