Sen. Jim Banks (R-IN) took to the Senate floor Wednesday to name Neville Roy Singham by name, accusing the American tech billionaire of running a network of nonprofits designed to advance Chinese Communist Party interests on U.S. soil.
Singham, 72, sold his tech company for $785 million in 2017 and relocated to Shanghai, where he now operates from an office he shares with a CCP propaganda outlet.
“From his Shanghai office, which he shares with a CCP propaganda outlet whose avowed mission is to ‘tell China’s story well,’ Singham began funding a complex network of left-wing NGOs and nonprofits that advance the interests of the Chinese Communist Party,” Banks said on the Senate floor.
Banks singled out Code Pink, the radical protest group known for confronting lawmakers in Capitol Hill hallways. Singham married Code Pink co-founder Jodie Evans, and Banks noted that the group’s posture toward China shifted dramatically after Singham began funding it.
“Code Pink, that radical organization that chases me and other senators throughout the halls of Congress, used to, on occasion, condemn CCP human rights abuses,” Banks said. “After Singham started lavishly funding the group and married its co-founder, Code Pink stopped criticizing the Chinese government and started defending it.”
The floor speech came the same day Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) was confronted by Code Pink protesters over the ongoing Iran conflict. Scott challenged the group on camera, asking whether they were bothered by the October 7, 2023 Hamas attack on Israel. The activists did not respond.
Banks also cited remarks by Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who addressed more than 60 nations at a Washington summit earlier this month on the threat from far-left political networks coordinating across borders. Rubio said these groups use encrypted communication, share training, and in some cases work directly with hostile foreign states.
“For far too long, however, our counterterrorism doctrine has had a blind spot, a blind spot when it comes to extremist violence from the political left,” Rubio said. “Even today, the very idea that far-left terrorism could be a serious threat is treated as a right-wing fever dream, or worse, as a dangerous fascist conspiracy.”
Singham currently faces a grand jury investigation in the Southern District of New York. The probe, authorized by Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, focuses on his finances and seeks to uncover any financial crimes tied to his network of CCP-aligned nonprofits. He has not been charged.
