You Won’t Believe Who the Millionaire Behind the Anti-ICE Protests is Married to
You Won’t Believe Who the Millionaire Tech Marxist Behind the Anti-ICE Protests is Married to: Report
When Nicolas Maduro was seized by United States authorities and transported to New York City on Saturday morning, demonstrators quickly materialized on the streets of lower Manhattan.
The protesters claimed to represent grassroots opposition to American intervention in Venezuela.
Behind the scenes, however, these demonstrations were orchestrated by organizations funded by Neville Roy Singham, a 71-year-old American millionaire living in Shanghai.
Singham made his fortune in the tech industry before relocating to China and dedicating his wealth to what he calls “anti-imperialist” causes.
Joel Finkelstein, a Princeton University researcher who founded the Network Contagion Research Institute, has tracked Singham’s financial network extensively.
His research indicates that Singham has funneled over $100 million into various activist organizations operating in the United States.
“If you’re showing up [at these protests] saying you’re part of some grassroots organization: no, you’re not,” Finkelstein told the Daily Mail.
“You’re part of an information operation that’s been sold to you that way. And you have a right to know that – because then you have a choice to make.”
The organizations receiving Singham’s funding include the People’s Forum, ANSWER Coalition, BreakThrough Media television network and the Massachusetts-based think tank Tricontinental.
These same groups have been active in coordinating pro-Palestinian demonstrations following Hamas’ Oct. 7, 2023 attack on Israel, per reports.
On the day of that attack, The People’s Forum issued a statement calling for an end to “US aid to the Zionist occupation” without condemning the atrocities committed against Israeli civilians.
Singham-linked groups then co-hosted an event in New York City on Oct. 8, where participants repeated pro-Hamas slogans.
The People’s Forum has now expanded its activism to include protests related to the fatal shooting of a woman by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Minneapolis.
The organization explicitly connects this incident with Maduro’s capture by American authorities.
“From Minneapolis to Caracas, from Chicago to NYC the violence of the ruling class knows no borders… ICE raids & murders, repression, bombings, and sanctions are part of the same project: turning our lives into profit and our communities into targets. We refuse to sit idly by, now is our time to fight back!” The People’s Forum declared on social media.
Singham sold his ThoughtWorks software company in 2017 for $758 million before moving to China with his wife Jodie Evans, founder of the feminist anti-war group Code Pink.
In August 2023, the New York Times published an extensive investigation into Singham’s activities, describing him as orchestrating “a global web of Chinese propaganda.”
The newspaper reported that Singham maintains office space in Shanghai alongside a company focused on educating foreigners about “the miracles that China has created on the world stage.”
He has received repeated invitations to high-level events hosted by Xi Jinping’s Chinese Communist Party.
Meet the new George Soros…
This is Neville Roy Singham and his wife Jodie Evans
Neville is a tech millionaire who bankrolls far-left causes in the US and Britain.
He has funneled at least $20.4M to a firm that is now organizing the Free Palestine protests we see across the… pic.twitter.com/hsZRahKyWL— End Wokeness (@EndWokeness) November 16, 2023
The Daily Mail outlined that following the New York Times report, Marco Rubio, then serving as vice-chair of the Senate intelligence committee, wrote to Attorney General Merrick Garland requesting an investigation into Singham’s ties to China’s ruling party.
Congressional scrutiny has continued, with the House of Representatives Oversight committee now leading the inquiry.
In September, James Comer, chair of the committee, wrote to Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent asking him to examine whether Singham should be cited under the Foreign Agents Registration Act for working on behalf of China.
Comer noted that the Chinese Communist Party under Xi Jinping employs a “Strategy of Sowing Discord,” which “refers to efforts to make internal disputes amongst the enemy so deep that they become distracted from conflict.”
Singham has denied any coordination with Beijing, telling the New York Times: “I categorically deny and repudiate any suggestion that I am a member of, work for, take orders from, or follow instructions of any political party or government or their representatives. I am solely guided by my beliefs, which are my long-held personal views.”
Political consultant Jason Curtis Anderson characterized Singham-funded groups as designed “to turn us against ourselves.”
He explained that modern protest movements bear little resemblance to the public’s “romanticized” view based on the 1960s era.
“Today, the permanent protest movement is much, much different. One, it is supercharged by large-scale progressive foundations with billions of dollars. And two, it is completely infested with foreign influence,” Anderson said.
The connections between Singham-backed organizations and the Maduro regime are documented. Manolo De Los Santos, the Dominican Republic-born, Cuban-trained head of the People’s Forum, has visited Venezuela multiple times and posted photographs with Maduro.
“Hands Off Venezuela” protests are being paid for and organized by The People’s Forum—the same group behind pro-Palestine campus protests.
— The Free Press (@TheFP) January 6, 2026
The group is funded almost entirely by billionaire-turned-Marxist Neville Roy Singham, who has documented sympathies and ties to the Chinese… pic.twitter.com/9I3oAaK6Ev
In April 2024, Maduro personally acknowledged De Los Santos at a conference, calling him his “companero,” according to Daily Mail reporting.
Finkelstein suggests that China’s interests in Venezuela are both ideological and economic.
He notes that Venezuela represents a significant energy resource for China, one of the world’s most energy-dependent economies.
Losing access to Venezuelan oil would be as significant for China as losing access to Iranian oil.
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