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Federal officials have subpoenaed left-wing Twitch streamer Hasan Piker and CodePink co-founder Medea Benjamin as part of a widening federal investigation into activists accused of potentially violating U.S. sanctions laws during a March trip to communist Cuba.<\/span><\/p>\n According to <\/span>reports<\/span><\/a>, the Treasury Department\u2019s Office of Foreign Assets Control issued administrative subpoenas, formally known as \u201cRequests for Information,\u201d tied to a trip organized through the \u201cNuestra Am\u00e9rica Convoy,\u201d a coalition of left-wing activists, influencers, and pro-Cuba organizations that traveled to the island earlier this year.<\/span><\/p>\n Federal investigators are reportedly examining whether participants illegally financed travel, coordinated logistics, delivered supplies, or engaged in prohibited transactions involving Cuba\u2019s communist government. Authorities are also reportedly scrutinizing whether activists stayed at properties connected to the Cuban regime that appear on the State Department\u2019s restricted list.<\/span><\/p>\n The probe is said to be part of a broader Trump administration effort involving the Treasury, Justice, and State Departments targeting alleged foreign influence networks and organizations accused of promoting anti-American extremism or aiding hostile regimes.<\/span><\/p>\n Piker, the internet\u2019s most prominent Marxist streamers and provocateurs, publicly documented his trip to Cuba in March, posting on<\/span> Instagram<\/span><\/a>: \u201cI\u2019M GOING TO CUBA.\u201d During the trip, he appeared alongside CodePink activists and organizations tied to left-wing financier Neville Roy Singham, whose network has faced mounting scrutiny over pro-China and pro-Cuba activism. <\/span>The investigation reportedly extends beyond Piker and Benjamin, with as many as 40 Americans potentially under scrutiny and additional subpoenas expected. <\/span><\/p>\n Piker responded angrily to news of the subpoena, framing the investigation as political persecution. \u201cthe american govt would rather try to criminalize delivering aid to a country we\u2019ve starved, than punish the epstein class,\u201d Piker <\/span>posted online<\/span><\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n Benjamin, meanwhile, attempted to characterize the trip as humanitarian relief work. \u201cTaking medical supplies to pediatric hospitals in Cuba is now a crime? Saving the lives of babies is a crime? This administration is beyond grotesque,\u201d Benjamin <\/span>wrote<\/span><\/a>. Given CodePink\u2019s long history of radical abortion activism \u2014 and ideological messaging routinely excusing or sanitizing authoritarian regimes \u2014 the statement\u2019s framing is quite ironic.<\/span><\/p>\n