Neville Roy Singham got rich the American way. He built a tech consulting company called Thoughtworks into a global business and sold it in 2017 for $785 million.

Then he moved to Communist China and started spending his capitalist fortune on American communists.

From Shanghai, according to congressional investigators, Singham has been pouring money into the groups behind some of the angriest street protests in America. Rep. Anna Paulina Luna wants him to answer for it.

"Look, the only reason the far left wing party of the Democrat exists currently is because of a foreign influence campaign from China," the Florida Republican said on Fox News this week. She said the man funding it, who is tied to the Democratic Socialists of America and the Party for Socialism and Liberation, is sitting in China dodging a congressional subpoena.

His network isn't hard to find. A 2023 investigation found that Singham's money flows through a web of nonprofits, activist groups, and media outlets that echo the Chinese Communist Party's talking points. His wife, Jodie Evans, co-founded the antiwar group Code Pink. The Party for Socialism and Liberation, which he has funded, shows up again and again at anti-ICE and anti-Trump demonstrations.

In New York, a Singham-funded group called The People's Forum helped organize a pro-Palestinian rally in Times Square on October 8, 2023. That was the day after Hamas murdered 1,200 people in Israel. The Party for Socialism and Liberation was listed on the poster, and New York City's DSA chapter shared the call to show up. The rally was ugly enough that even Democratic Gov. Kathy Hochul condemned it.

When riots broke out in Los Angeles last year over immigration enforcement, House investigators say groups tied to Singham were in the middle of it. That unrest led President Trump to send in the National Guard.

Luna says it doesn't stop at the streets. "We have an issue with bot farming online on social media, and then social media platforms not enforcing their own terms and conditions," she said. "What I would tell you is this started with again a foreign influence operation."

She's been chasing Singham for more than a year. In June 2025, she and Oversight Committee Chairman James Comer sent him a letter demanding documents about his funding, and investigators say he never answered. Next they asked the Treasury Department to look at freezing the assets of groups he finances. In January, at Luna's request, the Oversight Committee voted to subpoena him.

He's still in Shanghai.

The groups he funds aren't cooperating either. In July, the House Ways and Means Committee subpoenaed three of them, BreakThrough News, Tricontinental, and The People's Forum. Investigators are looking at more than $39 million Singham sent their way.

The nonprofits responded by calling the investigation a McCarthy-style "witch hunt." Committee Chairman Jason Smith had a simpler answer: "Either these organizations turn over the documents, or their leaders will answer the Committee's questions under oath." Their deadline was October 20. If they don't comply, the committee has threatened to depose 21 of their officials and staff.

Singham denies taking orders from the Chinese government or any political party. Even so, none of his nonprofits have registered under the Foreign Agents Registration Act, the same law that requires lobbyists for foreign governments to register with the Justice Department.

Luna wants to expand that law. Her proposal would require anyone pushing political messages online to disclose if a foreign government is paying them. "I have worked very hard to ask House leadership to bring forward legislation that would require influencers to disclose if they're getting paid by foreign governments," she said. The idea has picked up support from some Democrats, including Florida Rep. Jared Moskowitz.

She thinks disclosure would change a lot. "If that happens," she said, "you'll see a lot of shifting happening within the grassroots of the Democrat Party."

The Oversight Committee voted to subpoena Singham in January. Ten months later, he still hasn't come home to answer it.