The black masks may grab the cameras, but Seamus Bruner says investigators should be watching the bank wires.
“Follow the money,” the Government Accountability Institute’s Director of Research said Thursday, arguing that violent far-left networks survive through a financial pipeline far more sophisticated than the street mobs they support.
Bruner joined Fox Business as Secretary of State Marco Rubio convened representatives from more than 60 countries in Washington for a major push against transnational political terrorism.
“Today was a historic day,” Bruner said. “You had over 60 countries participating in this summit, and this shows the administration is showing real leadership worldwide because of the growing problem of radical left-wing violence.”
Rubio accused political leaders of maintaining a dangerous blind spot when violence comes from the left. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, meanwhile, said the administration intends to target the financial networks that keep extremist organizations operating.
Bruner said Bessent’s presence sent a message.
“I’m glad Secretary Bessent was there,” he said. “That shows a very important fact. Follow the money. The Treasury Secretary is taking this seriously.”
The administration is already expanding its scrutiny of nonprofit organizations and other entities that officials believe may be used to conceal illicit financing. Bessent said Treasury would use its counterterrorism authorities against unlawful funding networks while respecting Americans’ constitutional rights to speech, assembly and association.
Treasury said four foreign Antifa-linked groups were designated as terrorist organizations last fall.
Bruner’s sharpest claims centered on Neville Roy Singham, the American-born technology mogul living in China whose financial network has attracted congressional and federal scrutiny.
“A grand jury has been impaneled and is looking at the Neville Roy Singham connection,” Bruner said.
Fox News reported in June that a Manhattan federal grand jury had issued subpoenas while examining alleged financial crimes involving Singham’s network. The report said investigators were reviewing roughly $278 million that moved through donor-advised funds, companies, and nonprofit organizations.
“Over $270 million has come from the Singham network into our network,” Bruner said, referring to American activist organizations.
A House Ways and Means Committee investigation has separately demanded records from The People’s Forum, Tricontinental and BreakThrough News concerning their financial relationships with Singham and foreign entities. Committee Republicans have alleged the organizations are part of a nonprofit network with links to the Chinese Communist Party. The committee said public reporting showed more than $20 million flowed to The People’s Forum from Singham and his wife between 2017 and 2022.
Bruner went further, saying that Singham’s network has connections to Cuban military intelligence and activists receiving Marxist political training in Cuba. He also cited leaked audio from a Party for Socialism and Liberation meeting in which participants allegedly discussed “overthrowing and smashing our constitutional republic.”
Tracing money closer to the street level presents another problem, Bruner said. Informal Antifa-linked groups often lack the tax filings investigators would normally use to identify donors and expenditures.
“When you look at these really radical Antifa groups, it’s hard to track money flows because they do not have a 990, like an IRS form, that you can look at to see who funded them,” Bruner said.
Instead, he pointed to mutual-aid and crowdfunding-style operations, naming Open Collective and comparing the model to platforms such as GiveSendGo and GoFundMe.
Bruner also said Antifa organizations in the United States, Canada, and Britain began changing their names after President Trump designated Antifa a domestic terrorist organization in September 2025.
Bruner warned that even a successful crackdown could prove temporary if a future administration reverses course.
“When the left is in power, they kind of look the other way on their radical groups,” he argued.
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