Twitch streamer Hasan Piker and CODEPINK co-founder Medea Benjamin have reportedly been subpoenaed by US federal authorities over their March Cuba trip. Investigators are probing possible sanctions violations linked to humanitarian aid deliveries.
Piker, who is one of the biggest political streamers on Twitch, visited Cuba earlier this year as part of the Nuestração Convoy, a humanitarian effort that sent the nation medical supplies and other help.
The Office of Foreign Assets Control of the Treasury Department sent the two administrative subpoenas, seeking financial, logistical, and communications information from Piker and Benjamin's trips to Cuba in March.
Officials are also investigating whether any of the participants stayed at hotels on the State Department's Cuba Restricted List.
Piker and Benjamin have responded to the subpoenas, with Piker writing, 'The American government would rather try to criminalize delivering aid to a country we've starved, than punish the Epstein class.'
