A federal grand jury in Manhattan has issued subpoenas targeting Neville Roy Singham, an American tech tycoon operating out of Shanghai who allegedly routed $278 million to organize anti-Trump, anti-America and pro-socialism protests across the United States. The money moved through a Goldman Sachs philanthropy fund and two shell corporations — one of which has already gone defunct.
The DOJ is investigating wire fraud, bank fraud, and money laundering by Singham.
U.S. Attorney Jay Clayton for the Southern District of New York launched the probe, authorized by Acting U.S. Attorney General Todd Blanche as part of the Trump administration's broader crackdown on financial crimes in the multibillion-dollar nonprofit industry. The grand jury action follows a Fox News Digital investigation published in mid-March that first mapped the money trail — 223 documented transactions from 2017 through 2025, moving $591 million across five continents through 67 core organizations in Singham's network.
The mechanics are worth understanding. Singham sold his IT consulting company, Thoughtworks, to a private equity firm for $785 million in 2017. From his base in Shanghai, he then pumped $285 million into three channels: $164,040,000 went to Mutod LLC, a now-defunct shell corporation established in 2017 in Chicago. Another $110,376,701 flowed into the GS Donor Advised Philanthropy Fund For Wealth Management Inc., the philanthropic arm of Goldman Sachs in New York City. From there, the money fanned out into activist groups, media operations, and nonprofits pushing identity politics and support for socialist politicians.
One of those recipients was The People's Forum, which received $20 million from Singham between 2017 and 2022 through the Goldman Sachs fund, according to The Free Press. Another was CodePink Women For Peace, a 501(c)(3) based in Marina Del Rey, California, which received $1,330,000.
That last detail matters because Singham married Jodie Evans, co-founder of CodePink, in February 2017 — the same year the shell corporations were created and the money started flowing. Evans is now also a target of the investigation, having served as a board member on many of the organizations her husband funded. CodePink, for the uninitiated, is the far-left activist group that has aligned itself with the Islamic Republic of Iran, the Communist Party of Cuba, and the Chinese Communist Party.
Singham's network has not publicly commented on the grand jury investigation. The subpoenas are seeking bank records and financial documents from organizations across the network, which means prosecutors are following the paper trail rather than relying on public reporting alone.
The structure here is what separates this from garden-variety nonprofit grift. You don't accidentally route a quarter-billion dollars from Shanghai through a Goldman Sachs philanthropy vehicle and a disposable Chicago shell company into 67 organizations spanning five continents. That's architecture. That takes planning, legal infrastructure, and — the DOJ apparently suspects — potentially criminal disregard for the laws governing how foreign money enters American political life.
The timing is also hard to ignore. Singham cashed out of Thoughtworks for $785 million in 2017, married an activist with deep roots in far-left organizing that same year, and immediately began building a financial pipeline from China into American nonprofits. All while living in Shanghai.
Sell the company. Marry the activist. Move the money. Build the network.
That's not philanthropy. That's an operation.