Leaked Documents: Oliver North Warned NRA Over $24 Million in Legal Bills

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

The NRA has racked up huge legal bills over the last year that threaten to debilitate the organization, according to documents posted anonymously online that appear to be written by the group’s ex-president Oliver North. The bills highlight the organization’s extraordinary legal challenges. A person close to the matter confirmed the authenticity of the documents to The Daily Beast. Stephen Gutowski of the Washington Free Beacon was the first reporter to flag the documents on Friday.

Senior NRA officials disputed the documents’ claims but not their authenticity.

The documents include a confidential memo that North and NRA official Richard Childress sent to the NRA’s general counsel and audit committee chairman, dated April 18, 2019—the week before North was dramatically deposed as NRA president. (The NRA suspended its board’s longtime lawyer at the same time.) In the memo, North claimed to be “deeply concerned about the extraordinary legal fees the NRA has incurred” from outside attorney Bill Brewer. North and Childress then called for an independent review of Brewer’s invoices. Brewer has defended his fees in the past, telling the Wall Street Journal, “We’re a premium law firm, we make no bones about that.”

Lawyers for North did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Reached by phone, Childress declined to comment.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/leaked-documents-oliver-north-warned-nra-over-dollar24-million-in-legal-bills/ar-AABefKZ?li=BBnb7Kz

[malaise]

1. They may end up in an NRA shootout

I'd pay to watch and not offer either thoughts or prayers.
This is getting ugly fast.

[dixiegrrrrl]

7. "Everything Trump touches, dies"

It's a beautiful thing to watch, I tell ya.

[malaise]

12. Hehehehhe

[struggle4progress]

2. "They expected me to spend more time shredding documents for them"

[Thomas Hurt]

3. The NRA seems to have never figured out that North is corrupt and incompetent.

[PTWB]

5. What's funny is he seems to be the one blowing the whistle on their corruption

[Thomas Hurt]

8. I think he is just trying to blame it all on LaPierre...who is also dirty.

[keithbvadu2]

10. Just imagine getting (rightly) called out on your dishonesty and ethics by Ollie North!

Just imagine getting (rightly) called out on your dishonesty and ethics by Ollie North!

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https://www.democraticunderground.com/10142315315#post9

[llmart]

4. I hope the NRA goes under and all those gun nutters who gave hundreds to become a lifetime member...

are crying in their beer.

They really are that stupid, aren't they? A fool and his money are soon parted.

[SouthernIrish]

6. Richard Childress is a Nascar team owner.

Most noted for being the car owner of Dale Earnhardt Sr. He is (of course) a big game hunter that loves to kill any animals he can, including endangered species. I hope to hell he goes down with the ship too. A sorry bunch, the whole lot of them. Heartless to mankind and animals.

[jmowreader]

11. I'm really surprised Childress is still involved with the NRA

He doesn't seem like the kind of person who would tolerate his beloved organization being converted into a Russian money-laundering conduit.

[UTUSN]

9. Too bad NORTH couldn't find integrity when it came to the country. *Now*?!1 Well, O.K.