NEW YORK CITY (LifeSiteNews) — The chairman of faith-based nonprofit National Committee for Religious Freedom (NCRF) last week said major banking institution JPMorgan Chase and Co. cut ties with his organization without reason, then allegedly offered to consider reopening the account if he provided them with the nonprofit’s donor list and the political candidates they support.
In an October 6 op-ed for the Washington Examiner, NCRF chairman and former Ambassador-At-Large for Religious Freedom Sam Brownback said he and NCRF executive director decided to open an account at JPMorgan Chase “because of its national footprint and the multigenerational banking relationships our team had with the bank.”
While Brownback, a former governor of Kansas who also served in state and federal legislature, said the experience with Chase “was initially very positive,” that positivity came to an abrupt halt when the bank allegedly decided to scuttle the religious freedom advocacy group’s account just three weeks after it was opened.
According to Brownback, NCRF “received a letter notifying us that Chase had decided to ‘end their relationship’” with the organization, and “actually closed our account before we received the letter.”
