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In August 2020, New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) filed an audacious lawsuit against the nation’s largest and most powerful gun rights group.
The suit alleges that several top leaders of the National Rifle Association (NRA) including its CEO, Wayne LaPierre engaged in a ridiculous amount of self-dealing with the organization. Among other things, the lawsuit accuses LaPierre of spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on private charter planes for himself and his extended family, accepting lavish gifts from NRA vendors, and spending $1.2 million in NRA funds on “personal expenses,” the list of which includes his golf club membership.
Print this article Wayne LaPierre, executive vice president and CEO of the National Rifle Association (NRA) speaks at the NRA annual meeting in Indianapolis, Ind., April 26, 2019.
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It is now conceivable that sometime in the not-too-distant future 2022? 2023? the National Rifle Association will cease to exist. Even more likely is that a New York court severely sanctions its leadership, or the prospect of this spurs dramatic changes in the organization’s leadership.
Stephen Gutowski, the longtime gun and Second Amendment-focused writer at the
Washington Free Beacon has launched his own gun-focused publication,
The Reload. This morning Gutowski lays out the grim assessments from bankruptcy and nonprofit law experts in the aftermath of federal bankruptcy court rejecting the NRA’s filing. Federal Judge Harlin Hale ruled that the NRA was “inappropriately trying to use the bankruptcy court to avoid government oversight,” and s
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National Rifle Association Executive Vice President and CEO Wayne LaPierre speaks at Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC 2020, in Oxon Hill, Md.
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NEW YORK Now that a judge has rejected the National Rifle Association’s bankruptcy bid, blocking its plan to reincorporate in Texas, the gun rights group is back to fighting New York regulators in a lawsuit that threatens to put it out of business.
Harlin Hale, a federal bankruptcy judge in Dallas, dismissed the NRA’s case on Tuesday. He ruled that the organization’s leadership sought Chapter 11 protection in bad faith without informing most of its 76-member board and did so to gain an “unfair advantage” in its fight with New York Attorney General Letitia James.
NRA takes a blow in bankruptcy case as judge dismisses filing Share Updated: 4:23 PM EDT May 11, 2021 By JAKE BLEIBERG, Associated Press
NRA takes a blow in bankruptcy case as judge dismisses filing Share Updated: 4:23 PM EDT May 11, 2021
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Show Transcript Just a few minutes ago, my office filed a lawsuit against the National Rifle Association to dissolve the organization in its entirety four years of self dealing and illegal conduct that violate New York s charities law and undermine its own mission.
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