Adam KlasfeldMay 11th, 2021, 3:54 pm
A federal bankruptcy judge rejected the National Rifle Association’s Chapter 11 petition on Tuesday, finding that the cash-flush gun group brought their case in bad faith to avoid a lawsuit by the New York attorney general which seeks to dissolve the organization.
“There are several aspects of this case that still trouble the Court, including the manner and secrecy in which authority to file the case was obtained in the first place, the related lack of express disclosure of the intended Chapter 11 case to the board of directors and most of the elected officers, the ability of the debtor to pay its debts, and the primary legal problem of the debtor being a state regulatory action,” U.S. Bankruptcy Judge
Days after the
New Yorker and The Trace jointly released footage of his botched elephant hunt in Botswana, National Rifle Association chief
Wayne LaPierre faced questions about the embarrassing video during the group’s federal bankruptcy trial on Thursday.
A lawyer for the NRA’s former publicity firm Ackerman McQueen cited the footage, widely viewed as a public relations disaster for the gun group, to undermine the CEO’s testimony that he aimed to appeal to “mainstream America.”
“Not to ignore the elephant in the room, but let’s talk about elephants,” attorney
Mike Gruber said.
An outtake of the 2013 Botswana hunting trip for the once-NRA sponsored TV show “Under Wild Skies,” the previously unseen footage shows LaPierre shooting at the elephant once, wounding the creature, and then again three times from point-blank range in the wrong spot. The show’s host delivered the kill shot in LaPierre’s place.
Adam KlasfeldApr 16th, 2021, 11:07 am
The National Rifle Association’s former chief financial officer and treasurer previously told a bankruptcy court that he tried to reform an organization under the thrall of its CEO
Wayne LaPierre, who allegedly instilled an institutional culture of subordinates justifying a disregard for internal control with the words “Wayne said.”
On Friday, that ex-CFO,
Craig Spray, questioned whether the NRA would fold entirely without its current leader.
“Isn’t it fair to say that the NRA could survive without LaPierre at the helm?” Assistant New York Attorney General
Yael Fuchs asked Spray.
“I think it would be very challenging,” Spray replied.