CodePink's Media Benjamin confirms getting 'serious' Treasury Department query over Cuba trip

CodePink co-founder Medea Benjamin publicly confirmed for the first time that her organization received an inquiry from the Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), seeking detailed information about about its March trip to Cuba.

The inquiry, which is often called an administrative subpoena, comes as the Trump administration signals a broad effort to increase federal scrutiny of nonprofit organizations operating in foreign-policy and activist spaces. Last October, after...