AP Wire | 12/11/2005 | Red Cross, state officials look into Katrina pins

AP Wire | 12/11/2005 | Red Cross, state officials look into Katrina pins: "Red Cross, state officials look into Katrina pins

Associated Press

BEAUFORT, S.C. - An Indiana company that sells pins and pledges more than half the money raised to Hurricane Katrina relief efforts is drawing attention from the American Red Cross and the South Carolina secretary of state.

Novelty Inc., the pin's manufacturer, pledges a dollar from the pins' $1.99 price to the American Red Cross.

However, Red Cross spokeswoman Sarah Marchetti said the organization does not have a contract with the Greenfield, Ind.-based company and has not received a donation connected with pin sales. She said the Red Cross is investigating the company."