Seamus Bruner, executive director and VP for research at the Government Accountability Institute and author of Controligarchs, joined Liz Wheeler to dissect the grand jury investigation into Neville Roy Singham — the American Marxist billionaire who runs his operation from Shanghai.
The reporting by Bruner and Peter Schweizer, done long before anyone knew the name, has now become a federal matter.
The man and the money. Singham lives in Shanghai. He shares an office complex with Chinese Communist Party entities. And he has moved a fortune into the American left. He’s a Marxist, and he’s sent nearly $300 million from Shanghai into an assortment of left-wing groups, many of them controlled by him or his wife. His wife, Jody Evans, heads Code Pink.
How the laundering works. Bruner laid out the mechanics in plain terms. Money laundering runs in three phases — placement, layering, integration — and Goldman Sachs sat in the middle. Over $100 million passed through a Goldman Sachs donor advised fund. So Goldman serves as kind of the layering part of that process, where you mix in the bad money with the good money. And so when it goes into this Goldman Sachs black box, it gets mixed in with good people’s money, bad people’s money, and it comes out integrated in the financial system.
The stakes got the attention of the Treasury. This is why Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent flew to New York and met with the head of Goldman, David Solomon, warning that any knowing role in the integration would be a serious problem. Solomon says the bank had nothing to do with it and will cooperate fully.
Where it lands. The money doesn’t stop at paperwork. Bruner traced it to the streets — bail funds, the ACLU and National Lawyers Guild, the operatives throwing Molotov cocktails at ICE offices in Newark, Minneapolis, and Los Angeles. The funders claim ignorance. Bruner isn’t buying it. So it’s hard to say that you didn’t know that criminal activity was occurring when you’re trying to bail these violent criminals out and get them back onto the streets.
Proving intent. This is the hard part, and Bruner knows it. Prosecutors won’t find a confession email. They should do what they do with insider trading — read the pattern. What they look at is the pattern. Fund the bail funds, the legal groups, the PR shops, and the boots on the ground, at every riot, even after the first Antifa domestic terrorism convictions in Texas — and the pattern speaks. But it’s a pretty stark pattern when you look at it.
The Cuba thread. One investigative angle is still live. The State Department and congressional investigators are examining Singham’s habit of bringing American activist groups — among them the Armed Queers of Salt Lake City — to Cuba. Bringing groups from America down to Cuba to give them Marxist revolutionary training — yeah, that’s a huge problem. Combined with the Shanghai office shared with CCP entities, it raises a Foreign Agent Registration Act question even without a direct check from Beijing.
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