The powerful House Ways and Means Committee on Tuesday sent letters demanding records from two U.S. nonprofits accused of close ties to the Chinese Communist Party, Just the News has learned. 

The letters were delivered to two entities that are part of a network linked to Marxist, pro-China millionaire Neville Roy Singham. Just the News has documented the extensive ties of his network to activism in the United States, including efforts to boost the anti-ICE protests. 

Singham, who lives and works in Shanghai, runs a network behind pro-CCP news sites and other China-linked endeavors. He also sponsors the New York-based The People’s Forum, a driving force behind the pro-Palestine protests that engulfed the city during the Israel-Hamas war.

Singham, who sold his ThoughtWorks tech company in 2017, has used the money to fund openly communist endeavors. The FBI previously investigated Singham for his ties to “groups engaged in activities inimical to U.S.,” a copy of the investigative file appended to the letters from the House Ways and Means Committee shows. 

Chairman Jason Smith says that two entities in Singham’s network, BreakThrough Bt Media Inc. (which publishes BreakThrough News) and Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, promote propaganda in the United States aligned with the Chinese Communist Party. This calls into question whether they are violating their tax-exempt status under U.S. law by acting as foreign agents. 

“While a tax-exempt organization may lawfully receive large donations from a private citizen, the Committee is concerned that receiving donations from an individual who lives in Shanghai, maintains business ties with companies and individuals linked to the CCP, works with and physically alongside a foreign propaganda company, and attends CCP forums on how to promote the party abroad raises serious questions” whether these groups would qualify under the act, Smith wrote in the letters, reviewed by Just the News.

The GOP-led House Oversight Committee also voted last month to subpoena Singham for information about this sprawling activist network.

On Tuesday, Chairman Smith’s committee will hold a hearing "Foreign Influence in American Non-profits: Unmasking Threats from Beijing and Beyond” addressing these concerns. 

The two groups have been at the forefront of promoting opposition to the United States’ actions that infringe on the interests of China, most recently, the ouster of China-friendly Venezuelan dictator Nicolas Maduro. 

Earlier this year, BreakThrough News was at the center of an effort to stoke outrage over President Donald Trump’s operation to capture Maduro. BreakThrough held a livestream on Sunday organized by the ANSWER Coalition titled, “Mass Public Webinar: Stop the War on Venezuela! Build the Antiwar Movement Nationwide!” The livestream aimed to keep the far-left Maduro protests going into the future, Just the News reported. 

Tricontinental also has ties to Maduro’s Venezuela. In summer 2021, Tricontinental Director Vijay Prashad traveled to Caracas at the same time as a delegation of the Democratic Socialist Party of America. Politico reported that the DSA delegation “toured public-works projects and met with the Venezuelan Ministry of Foreign Affairs” and “visited the mausoleum for former President Hugo Chávez, the autocratic socialist who Maduro succeeded, and posed with their fists up.”

The Singham-linked People's Forum is a Marxist revolutionary group that is pro-Communism, pro-China, and anti-Israel — and Just the News has detailed how it has played a key role in organizing anti-ICE protests nationwide during the second Trump administration.

Singham's pro-CCP bent and Marxist orientation have long been clear.

“For months we’ve been the target of a campaign that alleges our funding comes from ‘dark money.’ A few years ago we met Roy Singham, a Marxist comrade who sold his company & donated most of his wealth to non-profits that focus on political education, culture, & internationalism,” the People’s Forum tweeted in December 2021.

Singham married Jodie Evans, the co-founder of the radical left-wing group Code Pink, in 2017. Her group touts itself as antiwar and has become increasingly pro-China in recent years. Just the News has detailed how Code Pink, along with groups like the far-left Party for Socialism and Liberation (PSL) and the leftist Act Now to Stop War and End Racism (ANSWER) Coalition, are also linked to the Singham network.

The New York Times reported that Singham works in Shanghai, that his efforts there are linked to the CCP, and that he has attended at least one CCP workshop on promoting the party globally.

The outlet also said Singham shares offices with a Chinese media company called Maku Group. The Chinese group’s “About Us” page — which has since been deleted but which was archived by the Wayback Machine in 2023 — says the goal of the company is to promote a positive vision of China worldwide.

Singham also wrote that he had served on the Central Committee from the League of Revolutionary Black Workers. The league, according to the Marxists Internet Archive, “played a key role in inspiring the Black Liberation Movement and spreading Marxist-Leninist ideas among Black workers and workers in general.” Singham reportedly worked as a “strategic technical consultant” with the Chinese government-linked Chinese telecom giant Huawei from 2001 to 2008, according to New Lines Magazine.

Then-senator and now Secretary of State Marco Rubio told the Biden Justice Department that “it appears that organizations tied to Neville Roy Singham, a U.S. citizen, have been receiving direction from the CCP.”

“I categorically deny and repudiate any suggestion that I am a member of, work for, take orders from, or follow instructions of any political party or government or their representatives,” Singham told the New York Times in 2023. “I am solely guided by my beliefs, which are my long-held personal views.”