A new report from the Network Contagion Research Institute documents how Far Left activist Medea Benjamin has built a multimillion-dollar network conducting foreign influence operations here in America to support ant-American and terrorist regimes across the globe.
The report is called "Following the Benjamins." It should be read in full by the Department of Justice FARA Unit (which operates within the Counterintelligence and Export Control Section of the DOJ's National Security Division), U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) and Florida’s Attorney General James Uthmeier and those charged with enforcing HB 1471, the state’s new foreign terrorist organization designation legislation.
Benjamin is the controlling officer of Arc of Justice, a Miami-headquartered private foundation formerly called Benjamin Fund Inc. The foundation holds $48 million in assets. Its board consists of three people: Benjamin (President), her daughter Maya Danaher (Treasurer), and Danaher's associate-slash-partner Jonathan Raggett (Secretary). There are no independent directors. Benjamin co-founded and leads CodePink, one of the foundation's largest cumulative documented grantees disclosed on every IRS filing since 2017 as a related organization through common board membership.
Note to Florida Attorney General Uthmeier the self-dealing disclosed is also worth investigating.
The report demonstrates that Benjamin received 60+ documented outbound contacts from Iranian-owned Press TV personnel — the second-highest total in NCRI's entire Hidden Switchboard dataset. In 2014, she attended the New Horizon conference in Tehran, where Press TV filmed an on-camera interview. Treasury later designated New Horizon as an IRGC-Qods Force intelligence recruitment platform, which in at least one case produced a spy for the Islamic Republic of Iran.
A former Air Force counterintelligence officer, Monica Witt, was separately indicted for espionage after attending the same conference series. She attended Hollywoodism conferences 2012-2013 (different New Horizon events from Benjamin's 2014 attendance, but same organization's series). Indicted spy Monica Witt remains a fugitive in Iran, see https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/13/politics/us-air-force-spy-iran for more.
In February 2019, she organized a 28-person CodePink delegation to Tehran. Her own published diary records stops at Press TV and HispanTV — both outlets of IRIB, the OFAC-sanctioned Iranian state broadcaster — the day before the delegation secured a 90-minute meeting with Foreign Minister Zarif at the Iranian Foreign Ministry. At a Fars News press conference in Tehran, Benjamin said on camera: "We do not know if we will have a problem. But when we go back, some of us may undergo questioning." The FBI interrogated her upon return, but did nothing.
While all of this was documented, the foundation carried no Florida charitable registration despite a Miami headquarters and active Florida-based solicitation. California revoked its tax-exempt status in April 2024. Three federal filings (FY2021, FY2023, FY2024) are absent from public repositories.
The pattern of active solicitation by an unregistered organization or one with a revoked registration and missing filings presents regulatory exposure under Florida Chapter 496 (unregistered charitable solicitation from Miami), Florida SB 700 (operational connections to Iran, Cuba, and CCP-linked funding networks – all designated foreign sources of concern), IRS private foundation requirements (three nonconsecutive missing filings over the past 5 years), and FARA (sustained Iranian state access, Foreign Ministry engagement, financial flows to FARA-referred organizations).
We note, again for Attorney General Uthmeier’s attention that as of publication, an active solicitation for a Miami-departing Cuba delegation was open.
According to the report, Benjamin-aligned funding of over $1.7 million has gone to organizations with documented connections to designated terror and foreign influence infrastructure. Arc of Justice directed at least $1,708,200 to CodePink over a seven-year period (2016 to 2022), with additional grants to the Alliance for Global Justice (AFGJ – fiscal sponsor of Samidoun prior to OFAC's October 2024 designation of Samidoun as a fundraising front for the terrorist organization the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, subject of three House Ways and Means Committee IRS referral demands) and NIAC (subject of a Senate FARA referral for alleged undisclosed Iranian regime advocacy).
The Network Contagion Research Institute assesses with high confidence that Arc of Justice functioned as "the financial node of a parallel foreign-facing nonprofit infrastructure operating outside normal state oversight visibility, with documented connections to Iranian state institutions, OFAC-sanctioned media, and Cuban state coordination."
As "Following the Benjamins" demonstrates, there is more than enough evidence to constitute probable cause – meaning there is a reasonable, objective belief that a crime was committed and the accused likely committed it – to indict Medea Benjamin on a host of federal and state crimes and civil violations. Why is she getting a pass?
The report is called "Following the Benjamins." It should be read in full by the Department of Justice FARA Unit (which operates within the Counterintelligence and Export Control Section of the DOJ's National Security Division), U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) and Florida’s Attorney General James Uthmeier and those charged with enforcing HB 1471, the state’s new foreign terrorist organization designation legislation.
Benjamin is the controlling officer of Arc of Justice, a Miami-headquartered private foundation formerly called Benjamin Fund Inc. The foundation holds $48 million in assets. Its board consists of three people: Benjamin (President), her daughter Maya Danaher (Treasurer), and Danaher's associate-slash-partner Jonathan Raggett (Secretary). There are no independent directors. Benjamin co-founded and leads CodePink, one of the foundation's largest cumulative documented grantees disclosed on every IRS filing since 2017 as a related organization through common board membership.
Note to Florida Attorney General Uthmeier the self-dealing disclosed is also worth investigating.
The report demonstrates that Benjamin received 60+ documented outbound contacts from Iranian-owned Press TV personnel — the second-highest total in NCRI's entire Hidden Switchboard dataset. In 2014, she attended the New Horizon conference in Tehran, where Press TV filmed an on-camera interview. Treasury later designated New Horizon as an IRGC-Qods Force intelligence recruitment platform, which in at least one case produced a spy for the Islamic Republic of Iran.
A former Air Force counterintelligence officer, Monica Witt, was separately indicted for espionage after attending the same conference series. She attended Hollywoodism conferences 2012-2013 (different New Horizon events from Benjamin's 2014 attendance, but same organization's series). Indicted spy Monica Witt remains a fugitive in Iran, see https://www.cnn.com/2019/02/13/politics/us-air-force-spy-iran for more.
In February 2019, she organized a 28-person CodePink delegation to Tehran. Her own published diary records stops at Press TV and HispanTV — both outlets of IRIB, the OFAC-sanctioned Iranian state broadcaster — the day before the delegation secured a 90-minute meeting with Foreign Minister Zarif at the Iranian Foreign Ministry. At a Fars News press conference in Tehran, Benjamin said on camera: "We do not know if we will have a problem. But when we go back, some of us may undergo questioning." The FBI interrogated her upon return, but did nothing.
While all of this was documented, the foundation carried no Florida charitable registration despite a Miami headquarters and active Florida-based solicitation. California revoked its tax-exempt status in April 2024. Three federal filings (FY2021, FY2023, FY2024) are absent from public repositories.
The pattern of active solicitation by an unregistered organization or one with a revoked registration and missing filings presents regulatory exposure under Florida Chapter 496 (unregistered charitable solicitation from Miami), Florida SB 700 (operational connections to Iran, Cuba, and CCP-linked funding networks – all designated foreign sources of concern), IRS private foundation requirements (three nonconsecutive missing filings over the past 5 years), and FARA (sustained Iranian state access, Foreign Ministry engagement, financial flows to FARA-referred organizations).
We note, again for Attorney General Uthmeier’s attention that as of publication, an active solicitation for a Miami-departing Cuba delegation was open.
According to the report, Benjamin-aligned funding of over $1.7 million has gone to organizations with documented connections to designated terror and foreign influence infrastructure. Arc of Justice directed at least $1,708,200 to CodePink over a seven-year period (2016 to 2022), with additional grants to the Alliance for Global Justice (AFGJ – fiscal sponsor of Samidoun prior to OFAC's October 2024 designation of Samidoun as a fundraising front for the terrorist organization the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine, subject of three House Ways and Means Committee IRS referral demands) and NIAC (subject of a Senate FARA referral for alleged undisclosed Iranian regime advocacy).
The Network Contagion Research Institute assesses with high confidence that Arc of Justice functioned as "the financial node of a parallel foreign-facing nonprofit infrastructure operating outside normal state oversight visibility, with documented connections to Iranian state institutions, OFAC-sanctioned media, and Cuban state coordination."
As "Following the Benjamins" demonstrates, there is more than enough evidence to constitute probable cause – meaning there is a reasonable, objective belief that a crime was committed and the accused likely committed it – to indict Medea Benjamin on a host of federal and state crimes and civil violations. Why is she getting a pass?
