Shanghai-based tycoon Neville Roy Singham's 'Squad,' Bernie Sanders donations resurface

A Shanghai-based tycoon known for pushing Chinese Communist Party talking points, whose activist network is flooding Capitol Hill this week, has directly funded some of the most powerful progressives in Congress, including members of "The Squad."Federal Election Commission records show that Neville Roy Singham and his wife, CodePink co-founder Jodie Evans, have given more than a combined $47,000 to Sen.Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., and Reps.

Pramila Jayapal, D-Wash., Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., and Chuy García, D-Ill.Omar's campaign took $4,200 from the couple from 2019 to 2023, according to FEC records.Singham gave her campaign $2,700 in March 2019, just weeks after she took office, and Evans gave $1,500 in two contributions in November and December 2023.

None of it has been refunded.HOUSE PANEL TO PROBE FOREIGN ‘TROJAN HORSES’ AS SINGHAM SCRUTINY WIDENSFederal Election Commission filings show Singham and his wife, Jodie Evans, directly contributed to a number of Democratic members of Congress.(Jim Vondruska/Getty Images; Dave Kotinsky/Getty Images; Valerie Plesch/Bloomberg via Getty Images)Sanders' campaigns have taken in at least $6,800 from the couple, according to FEC records, most of it for his presidential bids.

Singham gave $2,700 to Sanders' 2016 presidential campaign.Evans gave the 2016 campaign $2,800, of which it refunded $200, and at least $252 to his 2020 campaign in 2019.

She also gave $1,250 to his Senate campaign committee, Friends of Bernie Sanders, in 2011.García's campaign took in $1,000 from Singham in August 2018, according to FEC records.He was running for his first term in Congress at the time, after winning the Democratic primary for Illinois' 4th Congressional District, Singham's home city of Chicago.

The campaign has not refunded the contribution.Jayapal has received more from the couple than any other member of Congress, a net $35,700 from 2016 to 2022, according to FEC records.Singham gave her campaign $17,800 and none of it was refunded.

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