OAN Staff Lillian Mann
5:00 PM – Monday, May 25, 2026
Federal officials have issued administrative subpoenas to far-left political streamer Hasan Piker and roughly 40 other American citizens as part of an investigation into whether their highly publicized March trip to Cuba violated longstanding U.S. sanctions.
The Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) at the Treasury Department sent formal requests for information demanding detailed financial, logistical, and communication records from Piker and Medea Benjamin, co-founder of the activist group CodePink.
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The inquiry comes amid the Trump administration’s renewed crackdown on the Cuban regime, which is currently reeling from a severe energy crisis.
Investigators are scrutinizing the “Nuestra América Convoy,” a delegation of left-wing activists and influencers, over concerns that these individuals provided material support to Cuba’s Communist government by delivering supplies directly to state entities rather than operating strictly through authorized humanitarian channels required by law.
Under the Cuban Assets Control Regulations, most economic activity and transactions with Cuba remain broadly prohibited. Limited exceptions exist only for specific licensed categories such as journalism, educational activities, genuine support for the Cuban people, and tightly regulated humanitarian aid.
Many argue that the convoy’s actions — including direct coordination with Cuban officials and highly visible propaganda events — appear to have blurred or crossed those lines, turning what was billed as aid into a political stunt that benefited the Communist regime.
While Piker and other participants claim the trip was fully legal and focused solely on delivering pediatric medical supplies to local hospitals, federal investigators are examining whether their conduct complied with the letter and spirit of U.S. sanctions law.
“The news is not great, OK? I mean, it’s bullsh**, but still not great that they’re after your boy [speaking about himself]. They’re up my a**,” Piker said. “Free me. Yeah, free me. Free me. Free me. I can’t believe I’m saying that. But I’m about to be seemingly made an example of.”
Piker then asserted that “everything we did was cleared by Treasury.”
In posting the clip, investigative analyst Stu Smith wrote on X “for all the bravado, Hasan clearly understands this is serious.”
Smith also noted that Hasan received a voicemail requesting comment on the subpoena.
“I got a text message, or rather a voicemail, from a Fox News producer saying that I had been subpoenaed by the federal government,” said Smith’s X post, citing Hasan. “Before I could even respond to the journalist, an article materialized on the timeline.”
Back on March 10th, Piker had posted a photo on Instagram with the message: “I’M GOING TO CUBA.”
A Fox News Digital investigation later revealed that Justice and Treasury Department officials were looking deeper into 145 U.S. nonprofits and activist groups — boasting $1 billion in collective revenue — as part of a broader crackdown on foreign influence campaigns tied to Cuba’s communist regime.
Federal investigators are examining allegations that members of the delegation, including Piker, stayed at properties on the U.S. State Department’s Cuba Restricted List — accommodations explicitly banned for American citizens due to their ties to the Cuban military and government.
Despite critics widely sharing evidence on social media, Piker has pushed back aggressively on X, doubling down while claiming the group stayed at an authorized property — insisting federal officials were “misled” by inaccurate reports.
Although no formal charges have been filed yet, the administrative subpoenas reflect the Trump administration’s maximum-pressure campaign targeting those suspected of skirting U.S. sanctions and providing indirect support to the communist regime.
The scrutiny also comes as Piker remains a deeply polarizing and often inflammatory figure in left-wing political streaming.
Known for his combative, far-left commentary on Twitch, he has repeatedly provoked intense backlash. Most notoriously, in 2019, he declared that “America deserved 9/11,” a remark that drew widespread condemnation. He later attempted to walk it back, describing it as hyperbolic criticism of U.S. foreign policy rather than support for the terrorist attacks.
Additionally, on an episode of “Pod Save America,” hosted by former Barack Obama aides Jon Favreau, Jon Lovett, Dan Pfeiffer, and Tommy Vietor, Piker stated that the Palestinian terrorist group “Hamas is a thousand times better than Israel.”
Piker also declared that he “would vote for Hamas over Israel every single time,” describing Israel as a “fascist settler-colonial apartheid state.”
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