Washington DC, Oct. 23 -- Controversial business tycoon Neville Roy Singham linked non-profits have rejected a US Congress ultimatum to turn over financial records.

The People's Forum Inc., a New York City-based activist hub, and BreakThrough News, a far-left nonprofit media outlet, fired back in letters to the House Ways and Means Committee, which threatened to depose their leaders - and Singham personally .

"Threatening compulsory depositions of journalists and newsroom staff to compel document production operates as coercive retaliation by explicitly targeting the core editorial leadership and journalistic staff of BreakThrough News. Allowing a congressional committee to haul journalists into deposition rooms to grill them on domesti...