Overview
- Federal investigators from the Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control served administrative Requests for Information to Hasan Piker and Medea Benjamin on May 24, 2026, tied to their March trip to Cuba.
- The subpoenas seek financial, travel and communications records related to the Nuestra América Convoy and reporting indicates roughly 40 U.S. participants are under review with more subpoenas possible.
- Officials have said the inquiry involves OFAC and reporters cite involvement or coordination with the Justice Department and State Department, with investigators probing stays at hotels on the State Department’s Cuba Restricted List and contacts with Cuban-linked entities.
- Piker and Benjamin deny wrongdoing and say the trip was humanitarian, and Piker has publicly disputed reports that delegation members stayed at restricted hotels.
- The probe builds on wider U.S. scrutiny of foreign-aligned activist networks, and legal experts say OFAC RFIs can remain a civil enforcement tool or provide evidence that would justify criminal prosecution under laws such as the IEEPA.