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Feds subpoena Hasan Piker, Medea Benjamin over Cuba trips
wfmd ^ | 05 23 2026 | Staff

Posted on 05/23/2026 7:10:00 PM PDT by yesthatjallen

Federal officials have served subpoenas to Marxist political influencer Hasan Piker and CodePink cofounder Susan Medea Benjamin as part of a wider investigation into whether U.S. organizations and leaders violated U.S. laws and sanctions in supporting Cuba’s communist regime, Fox News Digital has learned.

Piker and Benjamin are among those caught in a federal inquiry into whether activists who traveled to Cuba in March violated U.S. sanctions laws through the financing, coordination or delivery of goods to Cuba, including potential contacts with Cuban government personnel or entities on the island. The administrative subpoenas were sent to the pair by the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control

The administrative subpoenas — called “Requests for Information,” or RFI — seek financial, logistical and communications information revolving around trips the two widely bragged about making to the island nation in March with delegations of the “Nuestra América Convoy,” or “Our America Convoy,” from a global network of communist sympathizers, activists and influencers who brought supplies to the country’s ruling Communist Party of Cuba, according to sources familiar with the matter.

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1 posted on 05/23/2026 7:10:00 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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To: yesthatjallen

Susan Medea Benjamin? Has she stopped dancing on her son’s grave yet?.................


2 posted on 05/23/2026 7:12:22 PM PDT by Red Badger (Iryna Zarutska, May 22, 2002 Kyiv, Ukraine – August 22, 2025 Charlotte, North Carolina Say her name)
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To: yesthatjallen

Whatta ‘bout Karen Bass?


3 posted on 05/23/2026 7:19:10 PM PDT by Paladin2 ( YMMV)
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To: yesthatjallen

“Susan Medea Benjamin”

This ‘mother’ should have been evaporated decades ago.


4 posted on 05/23/2026 7:20:15 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have, 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set.)
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To: yesthatjallen

I hope they get Piker for abusing his dog with a shocker on his podcast.


5 posted on 05/23/2026 7:29:48 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam ( "Trouble knocked at the door, but, hearing laughter, hurried away". - B. Franklin)
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To: yesthatjallen

My heart bleeds for them.


6 posted on 05/23/2026 7:34:58 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: Red Badger

Are you thinking of Cindy Sheehan?


7 posted on 05/23/2026 7:35:30 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: piasa

Oh yeah, Thanks. The kinda look alike...........


8 posted on 05/23/2026 7:37:05 PM PDT by Red Badger (Iryna Zarutska, May 22, 2002 Kyiv, Ukraine – August 22, 2025 Charlotte, North Carolina Say her name)
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To: yesthatjallen

Activist who sent Ilhan Omar’s daughter and Hasan Piker on Cuba aid convoy has ties to Hamas and Iran
NY Post ^ | 5/19/26 | Isabel Vincent
Posted on 5/20/2026, 6:09:00 AM by Libloather

A millionaire anti-war activist who organized the high-profile “humanitarian aid” convoy to Cuba in March has ties to Hamas and the Iranian regime.

The aid flotilla to Cuba attracted much attention as it included Ilhan Omar’s daughter Isra Hirsi and leftist streamer Hasan Piker — who both sung the praises of the ailing Communist ‘paradise’ after their trip.

It was organized by Medea Benjamin, president of the Arc of Justice Foundation, a charity with $51 million at its disposal.

Benjamin, 73, made at least seven trips to Gaza between 2009 and 2012 where she met with Hamas officials, including the group’s then-leader Ismail Haniyeh, publicly posted photos show. Hamas were designated a terror group by the US in 1997.

Both working for activist group CodePink, Benjamin and her friend and fellow activist Tighe Barry, 69, also met Hamas leaders, including foreign affairs minister Ahmed Yusef, who in 2009 handed them a letter to deliver to President Obama, according the group’s website.

Yusef, who has been described as “Hamas’s gate to the West,” was a senior advisor to then-Gaza Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh, who was later assassinated in Tehran in 2024.

Benjamin and Barry promptly delivered the Obama letter to the US Embassy in Cairo on June 4, 2009, during a time when the appointed US administration official was refusing to meet with Hamas.

“CodePink is open about being a conduit between Hamas and Obama, even met with Obama administration official Buffy Wicks at the White House after the letter was delivered,” said a report by Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI), a New Jersey-based think tank that studies extremism.


9 posted on 05/23/2026 7:37:10 PM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: yesthatjallen

Great. Love it.


10 posted on 05/23/2026 7:44:40 PM PDT by Words Matter
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To: yesthatjallen

Hahaa.Jokes on you,pinkos!!!
They’ve had it their way for so long.
I hope I live long enough to see them get what they deserve.


11 posted on 05/23/2026 7:47:49 PM PDT by tet68 ("We would not die in that man's company that fears his fellowship to die with us." Henry V.)
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To: yesthatjallen

lol.


12 posted on 05/23/2026 7:56:23 PM PDT by proust (All posts made under this handle are, for the intents and purposes of the author, considered satire.)
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To: yesthatjallen

Are Marjorie Taylor Greene and Tom Massie going to be character witnesses for her?


13 posted on 05/23/2026 8:11:38 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: yesthatjallen

Good. Past time to do this.


14 posted on 05/23/2026 8:19:51 PM PDT by gildafarrell (To Strive, To Seek, To Find and Not To Yield!)
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To: yesthatjallen

Medea Benjamin has had it coming for a long time.

Hasan Piker is new to the game but he’s got it coming too.


15 posted on 05/23/2026 8:56:04 PM PDT by TigersEye (The Democrat Party - like the love child of La Cosa Nostra and Al Qaeda )
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To: yesthatjallen

Maybe we should help them relocate to Cuba - to a certain bay that begins with a ‘G’.


16 posted on 05/23/2026 9:25:13 PM PDT by chrisser (I lost my vaccine card in a tragic boating accident. )
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; BraveMan; cardinal4; ...

17 posted on 05/23/2026 9:57:34 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (TDS -- it's not just for DNC shills anymore -- oh, wait, yeah it is.)
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