08-06-2020, 01:57 PM
...in suit accusing gun rights group of wide-ranging fraud and self-dealing (open in incognito to read)
More at the link.
I wouldn't be surprised to see her claims hold a lot of water. The corruption at the top of the NRA is a poorly kept secret. However, requesting dissolution of the organization? That seems a little far reaching to me. Taking out LaPierre and other corrupt leaders, yeah, but I don't know about dissolution. I definitely look forward to seeing how this all plays out.
Quote:The chief executive of the National Rifle Association and several top lieutenants engaged in a decades-long pattern of fraud to raid the coffers of the powerful gun rights group for personal gain, according to a lawsuit filed Thursday by the New York attorney general, draining $64 million from the nonprofit in just three years.
In her lawsuit, Attorney General Letitia James called for the dissolution of the NRA and the removal of CEO Wayne LaPierre from the leadership post he has held for the past 39 years, saying he and others used the group’s funds to finance a luxury lifestyle.
She also asked a New York court to force LaPierre and three key deputies to repay NRA members for the ill-gotten funds and inflated salaries that her investigation found they took.
James accused the NRA leaders of flouting state and federal laws and signing off on reports and statements they knew were fraudulent, while diverting millions of dollars away from the NRA’s charitable mission to benefit themselves and their allies.
The attorney general requested that the court bar the four men — LaPierre, general counsel John Frazer, former treasurer Woody Phillips and former chief of staff Joshua Powell — from ever serving in a leadership position for a New York charity in the future.
“The NRA’s influence has been so powerful that the organization went unchecked for decades while top executives funneled millions into their own pockets,” James, a Democrat, said in a statement.
Her investigation, which began in February 2019, found a “a culture of self-dealing, mismanagement, and negligent oversight at the NRA that was illegal, oppressive, and fraudulent,” according to a statement by the attorney general’s office.
Meanwhile, D.C. Attorney General Karl A. Racine announced Thursday that his office filed a separate lawsuit against the NRA Foundation, which is based in Washington. Racine accused the organization of being a puppet of the NRA, despite legal requirements that it independently pursue charitable purposes. Instead, Racine said his office found, the foundation repeatedly loaned the NRA money to address its rising deficits.
More at the link.
I wouldn't be surprised to see her claims hold a lot of water. The corruption at the top of the NRA is a poorly kept secret. However, requesting dissolution of the organization? That seems a little far reaching to me. Taking out LaPierre and other corrupt leaders, yeah, but I don't know about dissolution. I definitely look forward to seeing how this all plays out.
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