Congress Intensifies Probes into Billionaire for Chinese Ties to Civil Unrest

US Con­gres­sion­al inves­ti­ga­tions into CCP-linked fund­ing of civ­il unrest have inten­si­fied as House law­mak­ers tar­get bil­lion­aire Neville Roy Sing­ham’s alleged ties to Chi­nese Com­mu­nist Par­ty oper­a­tions. On Sep­tem­ber 22, 2025, the House Com­mit­tee on Over­sight and Gov­ern­ment Reform announced an expand­ed probe into Sing­ham’s finan­cial net­work, request­ing a Trea­sury Depart­ment eval­u­a­tion for poten­tial sanc­tions and asset seizures. The arti­cle begins:

House Com­mit­tee on Over­sight and Gov­ern­ment Reform Chair­man James Com­er (R‑Ky.) and Task Force on the Declas­si­fi­ca­tion of Fed­er­al Secrets Chair­woman Anna Pauli­na Luna (R‑Fla.) are inten­si­fy­ing their inves­ti­ga­tion into the finan­cial and polit­i­cal activ­i­ties of Neville Roy Sing­ham, a U.S. bil­lion­aire with report­ed ties to the Chi­nese Com­mu­nist Par­ty (CCP) and extrem­ist orga­ni­za­tions fuel­ing divi­sion and civ­il unrest across the Unit­ed States. In a let­ter to U.S. Depart­ment of the Trea­sury Sec­re­tary Scott Bessent, the law­mak­ers request that Trea­sury con­duct a com­pre­hen­sive eval­u­a­tion to deter­mine whether fed­er­al sanc­tions, civ­il reme­dies, or crim­i­nal penalties—including asset freezes or seizures—should be applied to far-left enti­ties orga­nized and fund­ed by Mr. Sing­ham. The Com­mit­tee on Over­sight and Gov­ern­ment Reform is inves­ti­gat­ing Chi­nese Com­mu­nist Par­ty (CCP) efforts to sow dis­cord in the Unit­ed States, and is con­duct­ing over­sight over the U.S. Gov­ern­men­t’s abil­i­ty and efforts under exist­ing law to com­bat such efforts.

Read more: https://oversight.house.gov/release/comer-and-luna-ramp-up-probe-into-ccp-linked-funding-fueling-civil-unrest-in-the-united-states/

For a 2023 NYT inves­ti­ga­tion into Neville Roy Sing­ham, go here: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/05/world/europe/neville-roy-singham-china-propaganda.html [pay­wall]

Key Points

• Con­gres­sion­al law­mak­ers request Trea­sury Depart­ment eval­u­a­tion of Sing­ham’s net­work for poten­tial sanc­tions and asset seizures
• Sing­ham alleged­ly built dark mon­ey net­work fun­nel­ing mil­lions through non­prof­its to pro-CCP media outlets
• Inves­ti­ga­tion focus­es on pos­si­ble For­eign Agents Reg­is­tra­tion Act vio­la­tions and CCP influ­ence operations
• Sing­ham’s affil­i­ates report­ed­ly linked to Los Ange­les vio­lence that prompt­ed Nation­al Guard deployment

Chinese Interference in US Domestic Affairs: Beijing’s Comprehensive Campaign to Influence American Society

Chi­na has sys­tem­at­i­cal­ly expand­ed its inter­fer­ence in US domes­tic affairs through a com­pre­hen­sive influ­ence oper­a­tion orches­trat­ed by the Unit­ed Front Work Depart­ment, which serves as Bei­jing’s pri­ma­ry tool for manip­u­lat­ing Amer­i­can soci­ety and pol­i­tics. Chi­nese for­eign agent spend­ing sky­rock­et­ed from $10 mil­lion in 2016 to $64 mil­lion in 2020, mak­ing Chi­na the top spender on for­eign influ­ence oper­a­tions in the Unit­ed States. The scope of these oper­a­tions extends far beyond tra­di­tion­al lob­by­ing, as demon­strat­ed by 600 US groups linked to the Com­mu­nist Par­ty through the Unit­ed Front net­work, which tar­gets over­seas Chi­nese com­mu­ni­ties by appeal­ing to eth­nic loy­al­ty while offer­ing busi­ness oppor­tu­ni­ties in exchange for cooperation.

The Chi­nese Com­mu­nist Par­ty’s inter­fer­ence tac­tics have evolved to exploit Amer­i­can social divi­sions and manip­u­late domes­tic polit­i­cal dis­course through sophis­ti­cat­ed dig­i­tal oper­a­tions. A pro-Chi­nese net­work attempt­ed to mobi­lize US pro­tes­tors using hun­dreds of inau­then­tic social media accounts that called on Asian Amer­i­cans to demon­strate against COVID-19 crit­ics, while Tik­Tok shows sys­tem­at­ic sup­pres­sion of Chi­na-crit­i­cal con­tent with hash­tags like #Uyghur appear­ing at an 8‑to‑1 ratio favor­ing Insta­gram. Con­gres­sion­al analy­sis reveals that the Chi­nese Com­mu­nist Par­ty uses what Xi Jin­ping calls a “mag­ic weapon” to influ­ence Amer­i­can peo­ple and inter­fere in demo­c­ra­t­ic soci­eties through every avail­able tool, whether legal or illic­it, accord­ing to House Select Com­mit­tee findings.

Bei­jing’s most con­cern­ing oper­a­tions tar­get Amer­i­can com­mu­ni­ties direct­ly by weaponiz­ing legit­i­mate social griev­ances for broad­er strate­gic objec­tives. Chi­nese Com­mu­nist Par­ty-linked groups strate­gi­cal­ly exploit Asian Amer­i­can social con­cerns to advance influ­ence oper­a­tions, mobi­liz­ing protests against local issues like home­less shel­ters while dis­guis­ing their CCP con­nec­tions through Amer­i­can polit­i­cal lan­guage. The US State Depart­ment con­firms that the CCP’s Unit­ed Front Work Depart­ment tar­gets the high­est lev­els of West­ern democ­ra­cies and has pen­e­trat­ed state, local, and munic­i­pal gov­ern­ments through front orga­ni­za­tions includ­ing sis­ter-cities pro­grams, trade com­mis­sions, and friend­ship associations.

A com­pre­hen­sive US-Chi­na Eco­nom­ic and Secu­ri­ty Review Com­mis­sion report details how the Unit­ed Front Work Depart­ment oper­ates with a $2.6 bil­lion bud­get to co-opt non-par­ty elites domes­ti­cal­ly and abroad, con­sol­i­dat­ing con­trol over dias­po­ra net­works and for­eign influ­ence oper­a­tions under Xi Jin­ping’s expand­ed mandate.

Exter­nal References:

• Select Com­mit­tee Unveils CCP Influ­ence Memo, “Unit­ed Front 101” — House Select Com­mit­tee on the CCP
• Chi­na’s Coer­cive Tac­tics Abroad — Unit­ed States Depart­ment of State
• Chi­na’s Over­seas Unit­ed Front Work: Back­ground and Impli­ca­tions for the Unit­ed States — US-Chi­na Eco­nom­ic and Secu­ri­ty Review Commission

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