Megan Basham

Now, that's a coalition that openly supports the communist Cuban regime.

And on his program, Piker openly said that the Cuban government contacted him.

So the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control issued subpoenas, or what they called requests for information, connected to whether U.S.

sanction laws may have been violated on this trip.

They also subpoenaed, you know, other well-known left-wing activists like Code Pink co-founder Medea Benjamin over that same trip.

And investigators are reportedly looking into finances, logistics, communications.

really just any way they can try to figure out if American activists coordinated with sanctioned Cuban entities or officials.

So this investigation is part of a broader effort by officials to try to control malign foreign influence that's operating in the U.S., particularly tied to support for political violence, extremist movements, and what the government would classify as terrorism.

So he's insisting that all of this was just a humanitarian trip.

And he says that he had cleared it with the Treasury beforehand.

He also said that he and his team stayed at an approved hotel.

And he's framing this as the government criminalizing aid to Cuba.

So he addressed it on his live stream, calling it an intimidation campaign.

Now, to be clear, though, John, at this stage, we're just talking about subpoenas and information requests.

There have been no criminal charges filed, but the broader investigation does appear to be significant.

Federal agencies are reportedly examining a network of activist organizations and also individuals who are tied to pro-Cuba and anti-U.S.

political movements.

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