Pledge 2 Protect, a Manhattan non-profit organisation, has been given 15 days to reply to a letter from JCOPE (the Joint Commission on Public Ethics) 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 the Joint Commission on Public Ethics and Pledge 2 Protect declined to comment on the ongoing investigation.
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.