New York Attorney General Letita James has gone to court over the gun right organization’s finances, which appear to issues….
The state has been on the organization’s case before…
The District of Columbia’s Attorney General on Thursday also sued the organization….
New York state is suing to dissolve the National Rifle Association, according to a lawsuit filed on Thursday, presenting a new, major threat to the country’s biggest gun rights group just months before the presidential election.
The civil lawsuit, which New York Attorney General Letitia James filed in state court, alleges that the NRA’s leadership spent funds improperly, engaged in self-dealing, and made false or misleading disclosures to the attorney general and the IRS.
It comes at an immensely precarious moment for the group. The NRA spent big to help President Donald Trump get elected in 2016, but now faces serious financial challenges –– in part because of hefty legal bills.
On top of that, the coronavirus pandemic has hit the NRA hard. It had to cancel its yearly meeting, which is usually a major fundraising event. And it has laid off scores of employees.
But even before the pandemic, the group’s leadership faced criticism for what many characterized as exorbitant spending. And an ugly legal fight with its former longtime advertising firm also pushed the group’s inner drama into the spotlight.
The lawsuit accuses Wayne LaPierre, the NRA’s longtime CEO, of using “a secret ‘poison pill contract’” to guarantee himself lifetime income from the gun group. And it says he hired unskilled people for senior roles to help him misuse the group’s finances to enrich himself.
The NRA’s president, Carolyn Meadows, said in a statement that the lawsuit was a “baseless, premeditated” attack on the NRA and on gun rights.
“You could have set your watch by it: the investigation was going to reach its crescendo as we move into the 2020 election cycle,” she said. “It’s a transparent attempt to score political points and attack the leading voice in opposition to the leftist agenda. This has been a power grab by a political opportunist – a desperate move that is part of a rank political vendetta. Our members won’t be intimidated or bullied in their defense of political and constitutional freedom.”
Trump criticized the lawsuit in brief remarks shortly after it became public….
I wonder how many people will understand the nuance of this and that it relates to a specific organization being alleged to have financial irregularities and not as it will be portrayed by many as an attempt to make the 2nd Amendment obsolete and gun ownership illegal, at a time when gun sales are at an all time high. You can be sure that Trump will distortion or not, try to milk this for all its worth to fire up a conservative base.
In some ways it is similar to those who are reluctant to embrace the “Black Lives Matter” movement, not because they disagree with the concept but because of issues related to the specific organization behind the title and various things they have said they also believe.
Wow, so Trump and the Republicans will try to paint Democrats as anti-gun thanks to this. Gee, that would be a change from…any other time.
The NRA is a criminal organization and I for one thank God (that Trump says Biden is against) that now it is only the Trump Republican Party that puckers up to kiss Wayne LaPierre’s corrupt old ass!
John Kerry was the last Democratic nominee who felt he needed to dress up in camo to appeal to these crooks that weren’t voting for him anyway.
But Biden is against God Scott, isn’t that enough for you.?
Has anyone told Trump that Jesus wasn’t white? I think that would end his new found “religion” pretty quick.
Was he orange?
President Trump said Thursday that the National Rifle Association should “move to Texas” in response to a lawsuit filed by New York Attorney General Letitia James.
“That’s a very terrible thing that just happened. I think the NRA should move to Texas and lead a very good and beautiful life,” Trump told reporters at the White House….
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‘I think the NRA should move to Texas and lead a very good and beautiful life,”
Does he think the NRA is a person?
Corrupt Special Interest Groups are people my friend!
Yea Texas
More Virus?
All his exes live in Texas…
Lots of them!