National Judge expected to rule whether or not NRA can file for bankruptcy, could pave way for move to Texas
Wayne LaPierre, Executive Vice President and Chief Executive Officer of the NRA, arrives prior to a speech by US President Donald Trump at the National Rifle Association (NRA) Annual Meeting at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis, Indiana, April 26, 2019. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP) (Photo credit should read SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images via CNN)
by: Brynn Gingras and Linh Tran, CNN
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Apr 10, 2021 / 06:15 AM EST
(CNN) The financial future of the National Rifle Association is playing out in a contentious battle in a Texas courtroom.
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National Rifle Association head Wayne LaPierre, on the virtual witness stand during the third day of the group s highly anticipated bankruptcy trial in Texas, was peppered with a harsh line of questioning, including one about a $60,000 invoice marked Russia.
In Wednesday s testimony, the NRA s longtime executive vice president conceded that he did not inform several senior NRA officials that he would file his bankruptcy petition before he did so, including a board member who would have been his successor, Law & Crime reported. LaPierre also testified that he did not inform board members about the establishment of a company Sea Girt, LLC, which he formed in Texas for the purpose of filing for bankruptcy.
âThank God Iâm safe, nobody can get me hereâ: NRA executive sheltered on borrowed yacht after mass shootings
By JAKE BLEIBERG The Associated Press,Updated April 6, 2021, 1 hour ago
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Wayne LaPierre, the CEO and executive vice president of the National Rifle Association, spoke during the Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando earlier this year.Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post
DALLAS (AP) â After school shootings that left dozens dead in recent years, National Rifle Association leader Wayne LaPierre said the resulting outrage put him in such danger that he sought shelter aboard a borrowed 108-foot (32.92-meter) yacht.
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National Rifle Association Executive Vice President and CEO Wayne LaPierre speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference, CPAC 2020, at the National Harbor, in Oxon Hill, Md.
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DALLAS After school shootings that left dozens dead in recent years, National Rifle Association leader Wayne LaPierre said the resulting outrage put him in such danger that he sought shelter aboard a borrowed 108-foot yacht.
During a deposition, the head of the powerful gun-rights group’s acknowledged sailing in The Bahamas with his family as a “security retreat” in the summers following a 2012 school shooting in Connecticut and a 2018 massacre in Florida.
NRA exec sheltered on borrowed yacht after mass shootings
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DALLAS – After school shootings that left dozens dead in recent years, National Rifle Association leader Wayne LaPierre said the resulting outrage put him in such danger that he sought shelter aboard a borrowed 108-foot (32.92-meter) yacht.
During a deposition, the head of the powerful gun-rights group’s acknowledged sailing in The Bahamas with his family as a “security retreat” in the summers following a 2012 school shootings in Connecticut and a 2018 massacre in Florida.