Hasan Piker And Medea Benjamin Served Subpoenas For Their Trip To Cuba: Report
Source: Huff Post
May 24, 2026, 12:20 PM EDT | Updated an hour ago
The Treasury Department has sent subpoenas to leftist Twitch streamer Hasan Piker and CodePink co-founder Medea Benjamin over their March trip to Cuba, according to Fox News. “the american govt would rather try to criminalize delivering aid to a country we’ve starved, than punish the epstein class,” Piker wrote Saturday on X in response to the report. Benjamin, however, said in a statement to HuffPost that she hasn’t been served a subpoena, though “perhaps” one is on its way.
The co-founder of the feminist anti-war organization said she traveled to Cuba under the authorized category of providing aid to Cubans and she stayed in a hotel allowed under U.S. regulations. “It is outrageous that the U.S. government would target people for bringing humanitarian aid to suffering Cuban children,” Benjamin said in her statement. “But even more disturbing is the cruel and deeply immoral policy the United States continues to impose on Cuba — a policy designed to strangle the island economically, deprive people of food, fuel, medicine, and basic necessities, and make daily life unbearable.”.
Fox News reported that the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control issued the subpoenas related to questions about whether Piker and Benjamin violated U.S. sanctions laws through the “financing, coordination or delivery of goods to Cuba.”
Piker and Benjamin’s trip to Cuba was made with Nuestra América Convoy, an international movement formed just a few months ago to bring humanitarian aid to Cuba. More than 600 delegates and 120 organizations participated in the trip, according to The Associated Press. Neither the Treasury Department nor Nuestra América Convoy immediately responded to a request for comment.
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