New York AG blasts NRA's decision to re-elect its embattled leader: 'The rot runs deep'

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Source: CNN

New York Attorney General Letitia James tore into the National Rifle Association on Sunday after it reelected its longtime leader, citing her ongoing financial abuse lawsuit against the pro-gun rights group.

The NRA announced Saturday that Wayne LaPierre was reelected as executive vice president and CEO. The AG's office has sued to dissolve the NRA for allegedly misusing charitable funds.

"The NRA's decision to re-elect Wayne LaPierre and other top leaders yesterday despite the detailed evidence of repeated fraud and self-dealing we have laid out in our lawsuit and during the bankruptcy trial underscores that board governance is broken and that the rot runs deep at the NRA," James, a Democrat, said in a statement.

"For years, Mr. LaPierre and his lieutenants used the NRA and its donors as a breeding ground for personal gain and to live a lavish lifestyle, which is why they must be removed," she added. "Our fight for transparency and accountability will continue because no one is above the law.


Read more: https://www.cnn.com/2021/10/03/politics/nra-wayne-lapierre-reelected-letitia-james/index.html

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The ongoing lawsuit alleges that NRA leadership used millions from the group's reserves to fund lavish trips on private jets, meals and other personal expenses, and that money was diverted to benefit NRA insiders and favored vendors. It also claims that LaPierre handpicked associates to "facilitate his misuse of charitable assets" and that the NRA board did not follow an appropriate process to determine "reasonable" compensation for NRA executives, including LaPierre.

[keithbvadu2]

1. The NRA used to be for sportsmen, hunters and gun safety.

The NRA used to be for sportsmen, hunters and gun safety.

Now it has become an industry owned shill for the sale of more guns and the enrichment of its leaders.
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NRA Cuts More Operating Costs-and Lavishes Executives With Perks

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/11/nra-money-executive-perks-pay-cutting-costs/

[Ford_Prefect]

2. It is also a pipeline for other RW pressure groups to funnel money through.

It's been going there since LaPierre joined it. He took over in 1991 but they had been pushing further right for a decade by then. LaPierre is an all in RW advocate who has no scruples and is willing to go that extra mile for a few dollars more.

[flying_wahini]

3. And a direct pipeline to the GOP's dirty money coming in from Putin.

The rot runs soooo deep that the AG can’t find the bottom.

[The Fifty Stateman]

4. "Nuts, Racists, and Assholes"

That's Bill Maher's translation of NRA. And Lapierre is all three.

[mackdaddy]

5. The NRA has been the Wayne LaPierre thru Life Fund for decades.

In the far distant past the did some good with gun safety courses and such, but it has been all about the money and political power.

LaPierre has been living an opulent lifestyle off the backs of individual hunters and gun owners, and has been taking the really big money since Regan from the oligarchs.

They should all be in jail for money laundering the tens of millions Putin and the Russians sourced into our political system and elections.