The Southern Poverty Law Center just got indicted for funding the very extremism it claimed to fight.
Now someone is paying for the riots outside a Newark ICE facility – and Scott Bessent just announced he knows who.
What Scott Bessent said should terrify every group that’s backing the rioters in Newark.
The Neville Roy Singham Network Behind the Delaney Hall Protests
For nine straight days, far-left agitators camped outside Delaney Hall – a federal ICE detention facility in Newark holding roughly 900 detainees – clashing with federal officers, blocking vehicles, and giving Democrat politicians an excuse to grandstand.
DHS Secretary Markwayne Mullin was blunt about who is actually inside: "the worst of the worst criminal illegal aliens" – murderers, predators, and violent offenders.
New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill called for the facility to be shut down anyway.
Newark Mayor Ras Baraka declared a public safety emergency and imposed a nightly curfew.
The media called it spontaneous outrage over detention conditions.
It wasn't.
Citizen journalist Nick Sortor went undercover into the encampment Saturday night and documented what he found.
Protesters weren't angry locals.
They were receiving brand-new 3M P100 respirators – each one worth $75 – handed out along with goggles, latex gloves, and spare cartridges, fresh in the box, distributed like candy.
Sortor documented the same groups running training sessions for so-called "protest medics," equipping what he described as Antifa's support staff.
Gov. Sherrill confirmed it herself: five of the six people arrested Saturday night were from outside New Jersey.
Fox News Digital documented the signs: Democratic Socialists of America, the Freedom Socialist Party, the Internationalist Group, the Progressive Labor Party – groups whose newspapers carried headlines reading "LONG LIVE COMMUNISM!"
This is not organic.
The organizational backbone traces directly to the New Jersey Alliance for Immigrant Justice, a coalition of over 50 left-wing groups that includes the ACLU of New Jersey and the New Jersey Working Families Party.
Behind groups like that sits a name worth knowing: Neville Roy Singham.
Singham is an American Marxist tech tycoon who sold his company for hundreds of millions of dollars, relocated to Shanghai, married CodePink co-founder Jodie Evans, and pumped $285 million into a network of six nonprofits since 2017.
The biggest beneficiary was the Justice and Education Fund – $68.7 million routed to anonymous overseas projects. The People's Forum, a communist organizing hub in New York City, received $22.44 million. CodePink got $1.33 million. Tricontinental Ltd., a pro-communist think tank, took $16.76 million.
The Party for Socialism and Liberation and the ANSWER Coalition – groups appearing wherever federal law enforcement triggers street chaos – share office space at the People's Forum and share its leadership.
In November 2025, Singham appeared at a conference in Shanghai at the Golden Tulip Hotel and praised Xi Jinping and the Chinese Communist Party's vision for a "new world order."
The New York Times documented the CCP-aligned messaging across his network.
Four congressional committees – Senate Judiciary, House Judiciary, House Oversight, and House Ways and Means – have all examined Singham's funding network for foreign influence violations.
Hasan Piker Just Confirmed the CCP Dark Money Connection on Live TV
Hasan Piker – Turkish-American Twitch streamer and self-described Marxist – showed up outside Delaney Hall this week and handed investigators exactly what they needed.
The week before, during a six-hour Twitch livestream, Piker had already described Singham as "a funding vehicle for a lot of political movements in the country."
He called the people in the network "wonderful people in general."
Federal investigators disagree.
Piker is under federal subpoena – along with CodePink co-founder Medea Benjamin – over a trip to Communist Cuba that Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control believes violated U.S. sanctions.
Ways and Means investigators already confirmed the People's Forum received over $20 million funneled through shell companies and donor-advised funds, hosted CCP propaganda events, and partnered with pro-Beijing organizations while claiming tax-exempt charitable status.
House Ways and Means Chairman Jason Smith put it plainly: Singham is "as close to the Chinese Communist Party as any American possibly can be."
Scott Bessent Just Made the IRS a Weapon Against Dark Money Nonprofits
Treasury Secretary Scot Bessent's announcement was the most important development in this story.
He told reporters: "We've made substantial progress, and I think in the weeks and months ahead, we're going to have a lot to report."
The IRS is revising Form 990 – the annual filing all nonprofits must submit – with one new requirement: nonprofits must know and monitor their grant recipients.
His exact words: "If a grant recipient is violent, if they are suppressing people's rights, then you are responsible for that."
That breaks the shell game.
Dark money moves because foundations fund intermediaries who fund street-level groups who commit violence – and every layer claims ignorance.
The revised Form 990 collapses that defense.
A foundation writing checks to the People's Forum can no longer claim it didn't know what the People's Forum funded on the street in Newark.
Seamus Bruner of the Government Accountability Institute briefed President Trump last October and identified dozens of radical organizations that received more than $100 million from what he called "Riot Inc investors."
Elon Musk responded: "Way more than $100M."
That was the investigative phase.
Bessent just announced the action phase.
The people handing out $75 respirators to Communist rioters outside a federal detention facility in Newark got away with it this week.
China-funded. Tax-exempt. And Bessent just told them both things are about to end.
Sources:
- Michael Dorgan, "Influencer Hasan Piker defends Singham-funded network at ICE protest," Fox News Digital, May 26, 2026.
- Fox News Digital, "Hasan Piker names pro-CCP tycoon Singham as financier of 'political movements' despite nonprofit veneer," Fox News Digital, May 26, 2026.
- Tyler O'Neil, "Scott Bessent Explains How the IRS Combats Antifa Funding," The Daily Signal, May 29, 2026.
- Nick Sortor, undercover reporting, X/Twitter, May 30, 2026.
- Brittany Miller, "Trump says Delaney Hall protesters are 'paid' as clashes escalate outside NJ ICE facility," Fox News Digital, May 27, 2026.
- Chairman Jason Smith, Letter to IRS regarding The People's Forum, House Ways and Means Committee, September 4, 2025.
- Tyler Durden, "Bessent Signals Crackdown on Dark-Money Funded NGOs in 'Weeks, Months Ahead,'" ZeroHedge, May 30, 2026.
