High Country Advocate published a comprehensive investigation January 10 exposing Neville Roy Singham’s “Riot Inc.” network—a Shanghai-based American billionaire funding coordinated protest operations through organizations with documented Chinese Communist Party ties. Thirteen days later, that network executed a massive statewide shutdown across Minnesota, demonstrating the operational capability HCA documented.
Singham sold his tech company for $785 million in 2017 and now operates from Shanghai. Chinese government records list him as corporate officer of Thoughtworks Beijing as of June 17, 2025. He has funneled more than $20 million through tax-exempt nonprofits to the Party for Socialism and Liberation, The People’s Forum, ANSWER Coalition, BreakThrough News, and Code Pink, co-founded by his wife Jodie Evans. HCA documented how his network deployed protests in a dozen cities within hours of an ICE agent shooting Renee Nicole Good in Minneapolis on January 8. The House Oversight Committee subpoenaed Singham on January 7 after he ignored a June 2025 demand for documents. FBI Director Kash Patel announced January 8 a nationwide investigation into paid protest organizers and funding sources.
The January 23 Minnesota shutdown branded “ICE Out of Minnesota: Day of Truth and Freedom” deployed those exact organizations. PSL’s Twin Cities chapter co-sponsored. The 50501 Minnesota chapter co-hosted. ANSWER Coalition organized through Progress Unity Fund, the Singham-funded San Francisco fiscal sponsor. BreakThrough News promoted demonstrations. The People’s Forum, which acknowledged receiving more than $20 million from Singham, coordinated messaging through its PSL co-directors.
More than 90 organizations joined. Communist Party USA’s Twin Cities chapter marched. Revolutionary Communists of America participated. Democratic Socialists of America backed the effort. Major unions included Minneapolis AFL-CIO, SEIU Local 26, UNITE HERE Local 17, St. Paul Federation of Educators, Minnesota Nurses Association, United Auto Workers, and Communications Workers of America Local 7250.
The shutdown called January 13—three days after HCA’s exposé—executed with precision. Hundreds of Minnesota businesses closed statewide under a “no work, no school, no shopping” economic blackout. Tens of thousands marched through downtown Minneapolis in negative 16-degree temperatures. One hundred clergy were arrested at Minneapolis-Saint Paul International Airport protesting deportation flights. DFL state lawmakers publicly promoted the event January 22.
People’s World, the Communist Party USA publication, confirmed the party’s role. Cameron Harrison, a CPUSA Labor Commission organizer, wrote a January 21 article describing the shutdown as linking “traditional trade union action with the fight against police and federal repression” against what he called “a broader conspiracy to impose a fascist dictatorship.”
The Chinese Communist Party connection rests on congressional findings. House Oversight Committee letters state Singham is executing the CCP’s “Strategy of Sowing Discord”—making internal US disputes so deep “they become distracted from conflict.” He has never registered under the Foreign Agents Registration Act despite then-Senator Marco Rubio referring him to the Justice Department for FARA violations in July 2024. Representative Anna Paulina Luna told the Oversight Committee Singham has been “funding extremist organizations fueling division and civil unrest.” The New York Times reported Singham shares offices with Maku Group, a Chinese media company promoting CCP propaganda globally, and attended at least one CCP workshop on promoting the party. Evans stated in 2023 that she “now strongly supports China, and regards it as a defender of the oppressed.” Code Pink has received 25 percent of its funding from Singham-connected groups since their 2017 marriage.
Singham’s Justice and Education Fund operates with negative $827,000 in net assets. It spent $10.7 million in fiscal year 2024 on only $5.6 million in revenue, burning through an $8.4 million reserve in two years. The organization employs minimal staff at $677,000 in wages while moving $10.7 million annually through grants distributed via fiscal sponsors that obscure the money trail.
Attorney General Pam Bondi’s December 4 operational memorandum directs federal law enforcement to conduct “exhaustive investigation to map full networks of participants, organizers, and funders.” The directive orders RICO prosecution, terrorism sentencing enhancements, and IRS review of tax-exempt status for nonprofits allegedly funding political violence. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is evaluating asset freezes and seizures for Singham’s network. The State Department designated four European Antifa groups as Foreign Terrorist Organizations on November 13.
The Minnesota shutdown validates High Country Advocate’s investigative reporting. The Chinese Communist Party-linked network funding coordinated domestic agitation through tax-exempt nonprofits executed a statewide shutdown with tens of thousands of participants in subzero temperatures two weeks after HCA exposed the structure. Federal authorities pursuing Bondi’s exhaustive investigation face a network that just demonstrated exactly the coordination capability HCA documented January 10.
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