Pledge 2 Protect, a Manhattan non-profit organisation, has been given 15 days to reply to a letter from the Joint Commission on Public Ethics (JCOPE) after documents revealed that the lobbying organisation may have accepted almost $700,000 in donations without disclosing the original sources. The letter, sent by JCOPE chairman David M. Cohen and executive director Michael J. Horowitz last month, was obtained under freedom of information laws through an open records request filed with New York City Mayor Bill
Pledge 2 Protect, a Manhattan non-profit organisation, has been given 15 days to reply to a letter from the Joint Commission on Public Ethics (JCOPE) after documents revealed that the lobbying organisation may have accepted almost $700,000 in donations without disclosing the original sources. New York State's lobbying and ethics watchdog agency is now investigating, both JCOPE and Pledge 2 Protect declined to comment on the ongoing investigation.