Federal authorities have issued subpoenas to prominent left-wing figure Hasan Piker and Medea Benjamin, co-founder of CodePink, as part of an investigation into their involvement in aid convoys to Cuba earlier this year, according to a recent report.
Piker, 34, and Benjamin, 73, find themselves among over 40 Americans being examined by the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control. This investigation seeks to determine whether the March convoy to Havana breached US sanctions by potentially funding, organizing, or delivering goods to Cuba, as reported by Fox News.
Dubbed the “Nuestra America Convoy,” this mission delivered approximately 20 tons of humanitarian aid to the economically challenged Caribbean nation. Following the journey, Piker, a noted streamer and democratic socialist, expressed admiration for the communist government.
The subpoenas demand that Piker and Benjamin provide details on financial transactions, logistical arrangements, and communications related to their Cuban expedition, as per Fox’s report.
According to the Cuban Assets Control Regulations, Americans are generally barred from engaging in travel-related transactions or exporting goods and services to Cuba without proper licensing.
However, the regulations do allow for certain exceptions, such as for humanitarian initiatives, journalism, educational purposes, and activities designed to support the Cuban populace.
CodePink, an anti-war feminist group, helped organize the convoy to Cuba as a means to provide humanitarian aid to the country following the Trump administration’s move to blockade the island last year.
The group said its members have yet to be served subpoenas, claiming it followed all the rules during the humanitarian trip to Havana.
“We did nothing wrong during our March 2026 trip to Cuba,” the group said in a statement. “On the contrary, we acted as moral US citizens trying to bring some relief to a population being deliberately starved by the cruel policies of our own government.”
Benjamin has also come under fire over her alleged ties to Hamas and Iran. She has 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.
The activist slammed the Treasury’s subpoena as an attack on her group’s humanitarian work.
“The Trump administration is investigating people for bringing medicine to Cuban children while defending policies that deprive those same children of food, fuel, and basic medical supplies,” she wrote on X. “If loving the Cuban people is a crime, then millions around the world are guilty too.”
The Treasury’s investigation marks a serious escalation from the Trump administration against far-left activists who defend Cuba and other communist regimes, often slamming the US for its actions against foreign countries.
The investigations also comes as the Trump administration and Republican allies have ramped up threats against Cuba, designated a state sponsor of terrorism, warning that the US may take military action in Havana.
Tensions quickly escalated last week after the US Justice Department issued an indictment against former Cuban President Raúl Castro.
