“ The National Rifle Association and its former longtime leader were found liable Friday in a lawsuit centered on the organization’s lavish spending.

The New York jury found that Wayne LaPierre, who was the NRA’s CEO for three decades, misspent millions of dollars of the group’s money on pricey perks, and it ordered him to repay the group $4,351,231.”


“ NRA general counsel John Frazer and retired finance chief Wilson Phillips were also defendants in the case.

Phillips was ordered to pay $2 million in damages to the NRA. Frazer, meanwhile, was found to have violated his duties, but was not ordered to pay any money.”

“ LaPierre billed the NRA more than $11 million for private jet flights and spent more than $500,000 on eight trips to the Bahamas over a three-year span, state lawyers said.

He also authorized $135 million in NRA contracts for a vendor whose owners showered him with free trips to the Bahamas, Greece, Dubai and India, as well as access to a 108-foot (33-meter) yacht.

LaPierre claimed he hadn’t realized the travel tickets, hotel stays, meals, yacht access and other luxury perks counted as gifts, and that the private jet flights were necessary for his safety.

But he conceded that he had wrongly expensed private flights for his family and accepted vacations from vendors doing business with the NRA without disclosing them.”


https://nypost.com/2024/02/23/us-news/n ... -spending/


(Mods: I know there’s a Wayne thread, maybe let this run awhile for visibility?)

Damn, old Wayne sounds like a crook! Who would have thought it?

Let's put Wayne off to the side for now.
It's NY again getting into private business dealings.
Did NY get harmed by Wayne being an asshole? I doubt it. I'm thinking they figured they got away with the Trump thing so they are now seeing how far they can go.
Just my opinion.







and yes WLP blows chunks

If you decide to be a 501.c.3 charity, per IRS code, you take on legal obligations and must follow generally accepted accounting practices. Financial fraud will get you in trouble

damn good now lets see the nra put that money to good use and get rid of these BS laws here

Yep.

There are strict guidelines.

Having both started, and been on the board of, several non-profits, it’s a pain.

That’s why others were found guilty, and there was guilt for not having a whistleblower process.

The whole point of having a Board is for oversight of things like this.

That’s why Oliver North was kicked to the curb…he tried to raise questions about the corruption in the organization.

Finally! Frenchie has his butt handed to him! Maybe, just maybe, the NRA will go back to actually representing the interests of gun owners. Until then I'm still a supporting the 2nd Amendment Foundation.

The NY AG has just given (if he pays it) the NRA over 4 million dollars. Thanks!

Haha, I like this perspective!

Actually, he was ordered to pay $5.4 million, but it was determined that he had repaid $1 million.

That, plus Phillips’ $2 million, and Powell’s $100k, makes it $7.6 million.

Why do I think an “off-the-books” corporate go-fund-me will take care of all this?

Plus, it’s a drop in the bucket compared to his betrayal, and the damage he’s done…

This

NRA members in NY were harmed by LaPierre using NRA funds to enrich himself rather than to resist anti-gun legislation, so yes, there was harm.
Also, if memory serves the NRA case is way older than the Trump case.

OK, I'll give you that.
But is it true that the money will go back to the NRA and not be siphoned off to NY?

Lawyers will siphon off a bunch of it, I’m sure

I don't know for sure, but the NRA itself doesn't appear to be on the hook. Some quotes from their press release (which search engines conveniently did not display):



And CNN reports the NRA attorney as saying