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Federal investigators have issued subpoenas to prominent left-wing influencer Hasan Piker and Medea Benjamin, co-founder of CodePink, as part of an investigation into aid convoy trips to Cuba conducted earlier this year, according to recent reports.
Both Piker, 34, and Benjamin, 73, are among over 40 Americans being scrutinized by the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control. The investigation seeks to determine if the March aid mission to Havana breached U.S. sanctions by facilitating, coordinating, or delivering goods to Cuba, as reported by Fox News.
The initiative, known as the “Nuestra America Convoy,” delivered roughly 20 tons of humanitarian supplies to the economically challenged Caribbean nation. Following the trip, Piker, a well-known streamer and democratic socialist, expressed support for the Cuban government.
According to Fox, the subpoenas demand that Piker and Benjamin provide detailed financial, logistical, and communication records related to their Cuban expedition.
Under the Cuban Asset Control Regulations in the United States, citizens are restricted from engaging in unlicensed travel-related transactions and from exporting goods or services to Cuba.
The law, however, presents limited exceptions for humanitarian projects, journalism, educational programs and certain activities meant to support the people of Cuba.
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.