American far-left groups previously linked to violent anti-enforcement riots in Los Angeles resurfaced this week during unrest in Minneapolis, where agitators clashed with federal agents following an immigration enforcement operation.
The organizations identified in the Minneapolis unrest have previously appeared in The Dallas Express reporting examining Neville Roy Singham, a U.S.-born millionaire living in China who has been linked to opaque nonprofit and dark-money networks backing violent anti-enforcement riots in Los Angeles and other U.S. cities.
Fox News reported that organizations, including the Party for Socialism and Liberation and The People’s Forum, played a central role in mobilizing agitators in Minneapolis and encouraging coordinated anti-enforcement action in Minnesota and other cities.
The Groups on the Ground — and the Financier Behind Them
While American far-left organizations carried out the unrest in Minneapolis, lawmakers and investigators have focused attention on Singham as an alleged upstream financier and enabler of the infrastructure supporting those groups.
Singham, a longtime Marxist activist and software mogul, sold his IT consulting company in 2017 for $785 million and later relocated to Shanghai. A 2023 New York Times investigative report concluded that he uses a global web of nonprofits and shell entities to push Chinese Communist Party propaganda in the United States, South Africa, Brazil, and India, often under the banner of social justice.
A Pattern That Predates Minneapolis
The Minneapolis unrest follows earlier incidents in Los Angeles and other U.S. cities where the same far-left groups were linked to violent pro-illegal immigration riots and coordinated anti-enforcement activity.
Those earlier cases raised questions about whether domestic organizations were operating with financial and logistical support originating outside the United States — questions now resurfacing as the same groups appear in a new geographic flashpoint.
Congressional Investigations and Oversight
The House Oversight Committee launched an investigation in June 2025 into Singham’s alleged involvement in funding anti-enforcement riots in Los Angeles.
In a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi, committee lawmakers wrote, “Mr. Singham, who resides in the People’s Republic of China, has a long track-record of assisting far-left entities, such as Code Pink, that oppose U.S. interests and support U.S. adversaries.”
In April 2025, the House Ways and Means Committee sent a letter to the IRS commissioner regarding tax-exempt organizations accused of promoting Chinese Communist Party propaganda and related initiatives, including The People’s Forum.
In that letter, lawmakers wrote, “Mr. Singham is actively fueling CCP propaganda and financing indoctrination efforts abroad by providing hundreds of millions of dollars to groups that mix progressive advocacy with CCP talking points. Despite this foreign activity and engagement with CCP-tied organizations across the world, Mr. Singham’s American-based nonprofit organizations continue to do business as usual, supporting political activity and pro-CCP propaganda.”
Lawmakers have also raised questions about whether Singham’s alleged activities should trigger registration under the Foreign Agents Registration Act. His residence in China has complicated enforcement efforts and congressional testimony.
How the Funding Is Obscured
Former federal prosecutor Andrew Cherkasky told Fox News Digital that nonprofit reporting requirements make tracing funding sources difficult.
“When it comes to 501(c)(3)s, the influx of that money isn’t reportable,” Cherkasky said. “In the same way, when you donate to a charity, those charities don’t have to keep a list of the people who are donating, and so they set up these charities that are really not doing anything specific, it seems.”
Cherkasky said the coordination observed in Minneapolis does not appear spontaneous.
“There is undoubtedly a lot of money behind what we are seeing,” he said.
“A subpoena can’t be enforced essentially outside of our borders,” Cherkasky added, referring to Singham’s residence in China.
“It’s undeniable that the protests that are going on in Minneapolis are supported by organizations or groups of people that are essentially collaborating to get these folks out there and engage in what turns out to be repeated acts of criminal misconduct,” Cherkasky said.
Broader National Security Context
As previously reported by The Dallas Express, federal prosecutors in Detroit charged two Chinese nationals with allegedly smuggling a fungus described by officials as a “potential agroterrorism weapon” into the United States, raising concerns about Chinese Communist Party-linked activity extending beyond protest movements and into critical U.S. infrastructure.
“The alleged actions of these Chinese nationals- including a loyal member of the Chinese Communist Party – are of the gravest national security concerns,” U.S. Attorney Jerome F. Gorgon Jr. said. “These two aliens have been charged with smuggling a fungus that has been described as a ‘potential agroterrorism weapon’ into the heartland of America.”
“These individuals exploited their access to laboratory facilities at a local university to engage in the smuggling of biological pathogens, an act that posed an imminent threat to public safety,” FBI Detroit Special Agent in Charge Cheyvoryea Gibson said.
What Has Not Been Confirmed
Neither Singham nor the organizations cited in the Fox News reporting responded to requests for comment. Federal authorities have not publicly announced whether criminal charges tied specifically to the Minneapolis-linked funding network are forthcoming.