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NY Suit: LaPierre Files His Answer


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In the New York lawsuit, Wayne LaPierre’s Answer has just been filed. There are some amazing admissions, or we might say, confessions, here, especially regarding the use of NRA money on chartered private jets. Those cost about $7,000 per flight hour, plus expenses, so a trip from Fairfax to the West Coast will cost NRA members about $35,000 each way. We’ll just use the paragraph numbers from the Answer, and skip putting quotation marks around each paragraph.

Begin Answer

148. Mr. LaPierre denies the allegations set forth in paragraph 148 of the Complaint, except admits that National Rifle Association of America records show that between June 2016 and February 2018, the organization initially paid for certain flights for his wife and extended family that were related to National Rifle Association of America business when he was not a passenger, that he admitted that he authorized some of these flights, that the flights were not approved for security reasons, and that the flights were not approved by the National Rifle Association of America Board, and states that he has reimbursed the National Rifle Association of America for those flights. [Which is like a burglar defending his conduct by saying, after he got caught, he returned the stolen property].

149. Mr. LaPierre . . . admits that, in August 2016, he authorized a private flight for his wife’s niece and her husband to fly from Dallas, TX, to North Platte, NE so that his wife’s niece could attend a National Rifle Association of America Women’s Leadership Forum meeting. . . .

150. Mr. LaPierre . . . admits that, in July 2017, he authorized a private flight for his wife’s niece and her daughter to fly from Dallas, TX, to Orlando, FL, and … states that the amount of this benefit realized from this flight was reimbursed by Mr. LaPierre with interest.

151. Mr. LaPierre . . . admits that, in October 2016, he authorized a private flight for his wife to fly alone from Madison, WI, to Kearney, NE, and . . . expenses that were determined to constitute excess benefits were reimbursed by Mr. LaPierre to the National Rifle Association of America with interest.

152. Mr. LaPierre . . . admits that in January 2017, he authorized a private jet to pick up his wife’s niece’s husband in North Platte, NE, on the way to Las Vegas for a Safari Club convention, that he authorized a private flight to fly his wife’s niece’s husband back to Nebraska, and . . . states that expenses associated with private air travel which were determined to constitute excess benefits were reimbursed by Mr. LaPierre to the National Rifle Association of America.

155. Mr. LaPierre . . . admits that, in November 2018, he and his wife took a private roundtrip flight from Washington D.C. to Dallas, TX, and stopped in North Platte, NE, on each leg of the trip, to pick up and drop off his wife’s niece and grandniece so that he, his wife and his wife’s niece could work together on the National Rifle Association of America’s Women’s Leadership Foundation business, and states that charges associated with private air travel which constituted potential excess benefits were reimbursed by Mr. LaPierre.

156. Mr. LaPierre . . . admits that in March 2019, he and his wife took a private flight from Washington D.C. to Orlando, FL, and stopped in North Platte, NE, on the way back, to drop off his wife’s niece and grandniece and to do a speech at a Friends of the National Rifle Association of America dinner, and that, in April 2019, he and his wife took a private flight from Washington D.C. to Tulsa, OK, making stops in Omaha and North Platte, NE, so he could make a speech at a Friends of the National Rifle Association of America banquet in Omaha, NE, and work the Tulsa, OK gun show, which is reportedly the largest gun show in the country, and states that potential excess benefit amounts relating to these trips were reimbursed by him with interest.

162. Mr. LaPierre . . . admits that, on a few occasions, in connection with her work as a volunteer for the National Rifle Association of America’s Women’s Leadership Foundation, Mr. LaPierre’s wife traveled without Mr. LaPierre on a chartered plane, incurring expenses for which Mr. LaPierre has reimbursed the National Rifle Association of America.

165. Mr. LaPierre . . . admits that, since June 2015, he and his family have taken private flights to and from the Bahamas on occasion and that on some of those trips he stopped in Nebraska to pick up and drop off his wife’s niece and her family, and states that charges deemed to constitute excess benefits were reimbursed by Mr. LaPierre.

166. Mr. LaPierre . . .[admits] that he attended celebrity fundraising events during December in the Bahamas.

173. Mr. LaPierre . . . admits that he used to frequently meet with the MMP Principal in connection with National Rifle Association of America business, that he took private flights to California on many occasions between late 2013 and early 2017—usually staying at a hotel in Beverly Hills—to meet with the MMP Principal and others, often over lunch or dinner, and that, between 2013 and 2016, the MMP Principal, his wife, and their daughter received gifts from the National Rifle Association of America, for which Mr. LaPierre has reimbursed the National Rifle Association of America.

174. Mr. LaPierre . . . admits that he has attended “celebrity retreats” organized by the MMP Principal in the past, that when he attended these retreats, which were held annually in the Bahamas in December, he stayed at the Atlantis resort on Paradise Island, and that his lodging was paid for by the MMP Principal, and that he gave testimony about his visits to the Bahamas, which speaks for itself and is the best evidence of its content. [The head of MMP, one of NRA’s biggest vendors, gave LaPierre Bahama’s vacations in the winter].

175. Mr. LaPierre . . . admits that, between 2013 and 2018, he visited the Bahamas in the summer, that during these trips, he stayed on a boat named Illusions, which he believed was owned by the MMP Principal, that his family members joined him on these trips, that the boat was equipped with four staterooms, a jet boat, and two jet skis, had a crew that included a chef . . . .

176. Mr. LaPierre . . . admits that until April 2021 he did not disclose his use of the boat in the Bahamas on the National Rifle Association of America Financial Disclosure Questionnaires that he, as an officer and ex officio director of the National Rifle Association of America, submitted to the National Rifle Association of America Secretary annually, and that Question 4 of that questionnaire asked:

“Have you or any relative received, or do you or any relative expect to receive, any gift, gratuity, personal favor, or entertainment with either a retail price or fair market value in excess of $250 from any person or entity that has or is seeking to have a business relationship with, or received funds from, NRA or any NRA Entity?”

177. Mr. LaPierre . . . admits that he answered no to this question in every questionnaire he submitted from 2008 to 2020. . . .

183. Mr. LaPierre . . . admits that since being elected Executive Vice President of the National Rifle Association of America, he has not used the National Rifle Association of America’s regular travel agent to make his travel arrangements, that, since the 1990s, he has booked travel through a travel consultant based in Woodland Hills, CA, that that travel consultant billed the National Rifle Association of America through two companies, Inventive Incentive & Insurance Services Inc. and GS2 Enterprises, and that he gave testimony about the travel consultant, which speaks for itself and is the best evidence of its content.

202. Mr. LaPierre . . . admits that, in May 2017, his wife was appointed to the Board of Directors of the National Park Service Foundation (NPSF), and that, over the next few months, he submitted expense reports requesting expense reimbursements for trips taken with his wife to NPSF events in Alaska and Arizona, and that this was in addition to the expense of the flights used to get them to the NPSF events.

203. Mr. LaPierre . . . admits that he has submitted expense reports seeking reimbursements for his wife’s niece’s lodging and airfare for events related to National Rifle Association of America business, that he submitted reimbursement requests for his wife’s niece’s travel expenses on occasion, and that, in 2016 and 2017, the National Rifle Association of America reimbursed certain expenses for his wife’s niece’s airfare and lodging, and states that he has reimbursed the National Rifle Association of America for expenses determined to constitute excess benefits and that he has reimbursed the National Rifle Association of America for the $12,332.75 expense associated with his wife’s niece’s stay at the Four Seasons Hotel in Dallas, Texas in early 2017 referenced in paragraph 203 of the Complaint.

204. Mr. LaPierre . . . admits that he has been reimbursed for expenses incurred travelling to and from film shoots for Under Wild Skies, a television program, in Europe and Africa, that he had a decades-long friendship with the principal of Under Wild Skies, Inc. (“UWS”), the corporate entity that produces the program, and that, in 2013, he was reimbursed by the National Rifle Association of America for airfare, lodging, and related expenses that he and his wife incurred travelling to Botswana for an Under Wild Skies film shoot on safari . . . .

206. Mr. LaPierre … admits that, between 2009 and 2017, he expensed membership fees for a golf club located in the Washington D.C. area. . . .

220. Mr. LaPierre . . . admits that he gave testimony about an armored vehicle, which speaks for itself and is the best evidence of its content.

222. Mr. LaPierre . . .admits that he and his wife looked at several houses in the Dallas, TX area for possible use as a safe house from time to time.

259. Mr. LaPierre . . . admits, on information and belief, that Phillips retroactively raised Powell’s salary to $800,000. [Treasurer Woody Phillips was able to hand out hundreds of thousands, and raise salaries, without LaPierre or the board being told.]

291. Mr. LaPierre . . . admits that he did not consult an executive search firm to assist in identifying qualified candidates for the General Counsel position prior to hiring Frazer, that he did not ask that a search be conducted of Frazer’s prior legal writings or of lawsuits in which he was involved, that he did not take steps to ensure that a credit or social-media check was conducted for Frazer before hiring him as General Counsel. . . .

299. Mr. LaPierre . . . admits, upon information and belief, that, at some point in the 2000s, an investigation of one of his advisors was conducted and investigators concluded that there was no intentional malfeasance on her part, but she was required to repay the National Rifle Association of America for some amount of reimbursement and her National Rifle Association of America credit card was taken away. [This is probably Millie Hallow.]

309. Mr. LaPierre admits that the National Rifle Association of America disclosed in its 2019 Form 990 that the person referred to in paragraph 296 of the Complaint “diverted $41,820.37 from the NRA but has fully repaid the organization, including interest, for a total of $56,241.35.” [Probably Hallow.]

325. Mr. LaPierre . . . admits that Ackerman regularly passed expenses to the National Rifle Association of America without justification or appropriate backup. [Nobody talked about this, because Ackerman was then “Wayne’s brain” and could have gotten any NRA employee fired.]

336. Mr. LaPierre . . . admits that, in 2018, the President of Mercury Group, Tony Makris, offered to accompany him on a visit to a medical clinic, and that, in connection with this visit, he (Mr. LaPierre) flew on a private charter, that he and the president of Mercury Group stayed at the Four Seasons for several days and that the National Rifle Association of America paid for Mr. LaPierre’s private travel associated with this visit to the medical clinic, and states that to the extent certain expenses were deemed to constitute excess benefits, Mr. LaPierre has reimbursed that amount to the NRA with interest.

346. Mr. LaPierre . . . admits that, as part of his work for the National Rifle Association of America and as part of his wife’s volunteer work for the National Rifle Association of America Women’s Leadership Forum, he and his wife appeared in episodes of Under Wild Skies, traveling to and participating in big game hunts in the United States, Botswana, Tanzania, South Africa, and Argentina, and that the expenses associated with these trips— including professional hunter costs, camps, chartered travel, food and beverages, hunting licenses, trophy fees, and taxidermy—were incurred by UWS as part of the show, and lacks knowledge or information sufficient to form a belief as to the truth of the allegation that “[a]ccording to the president of Mercury Group and UWS, a single game hunt of this nature could cost upwards of $100,000”.

361. Mr. LaPierre . . . he admits that he was not aware of any consulting services provided to the National Rifle Association of America pursuant to the referenced agreement, and that he gave videotaped testimony about the agreement, which speaks for itself and is the best evidence of its content.

378. Mr. LaPierre . . . admits that he gave videotaped testimony regarding whether he thought it was prudent for a charitable nonprofit organization to have an executive negotiate with a vendor while also being paid by that vendor, which speaks for itself and is the best evidence of its content.

409. Mr. LaPierre . . . admits that Board Member No. 5 is a past National Rifle Association of America President and is a current National Rifle Association of America Board member who has been paid under the EVP Consulting Budget, that he (Mr. LaPierre), on behalf of the National Rifle Association of America, and Board Member No. 5 executed a ten-year contract with the Board member, and that he gave videotaped testimony regarding contracts with Board Member No. 5, which speaks for itself and is the best evidence of its content. [Marion Hammer]

462. Mr. LaPierre . . . admits that at the time of his discussions with Dissident No. l, Dissident No. 1 had a contract at Fox News, and that the National Rifle Association of America’s bylaws did not permit Dissident No. 1 to receive a salary from the National Rifle Association of America as National Rifle Association of America President. [Oliver North. The by-laws forbid payment of salary to board members. But look at the previous paragraph, about signing a ten-year contract with a powerful board member.]

609. Mr. LaPierre . . . admits that one week before the bankruptcy filing, on January 7, 2021, the National Rifle Association of America Board approved a new employment agreement with Mr. LaPierre (the “2021 Employment Agreement”).

619. Mr. LaPierre . . . admits that he advised three members of the National Rifle Association of America Board of Directors – the President, the First Vice President and the Second Vice President – who comprised the Special Litigation Committee of the Board of Directors – of his intention to put the National Rifle Association of America into bankruptcy before filing the National Rifle Association of America’s bankruptcy petition, and that, upon information and belief, other members of the board were aware that he was considering putting the National Rifle Association of America into bankruptcy before the petition was filed as part of a restructuring and/or reorganization. [The other directors were only aware he was “considering” such a move.]

End of Answer.

NRA’s CEO, Wayne LaPierre, has admitted, in court and under oath, that he and his cronies “diverted” NRA members’ money to pay for vacations, private jets, luxury hotels, gifts for friends, and everything else. Will the board do anything about this confession? Will they even dare ask him questions about it? We all know the answer to that question
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I feel violated 🤨
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xerts1911 wrote: October 25th, 2022, 9:07 pm I feel violated 🤨
You didn't know all this stuff went on years ago?? The NRA gave lessons of corruption to BLM .


Have a great, gun carryin', Kenpo day

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and yet the money machine keeps calling for money from donators, this sob should be in the slammer, its been known for decades he was a liar and thief, and nra has suffered under his tutelage, shame at one time it was the crown jewel in the ''fight'' but no longer the greed these sobs had for the almighty buck destroyed its place, all who were involved should be hunted down and dealt with,
knox tried to deal with it, but lost out.
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NRA Financials Through End of August


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They are disastrous. Compare the Year To Date Actual column with the Year to Date as budgeted. The YTD budgeted would show the best estimates as of the beginning of 2022, meaning the anticipated trend in revenue, grim as it was (a fall from the peak years 2017-2018, of $350 million down to the estimated 2022 revenue of $268 million. A 24% drop--a financial disaster.

That was the grim prediction. The reality is worse. January-August 31, membership dues were predicted as $110 million; they really were only $79 million, 28% below budget. Contributions for ILA, predicted at $20 million, only brought in $12 million. ILA cut back its spending (in an election year) and spent $19 million, out of a budgeted $24 million. Even so, when the budget projected a $676,000 surplus at this point, NRA actually ran an $11 million deficit.

Expenses: The standout is the legal costs, listed under "OGC_Secretary" (Office of General Counsel). That was budgeted for a eye-popping $26 million, but actually cost $40 million. Twice as much was spent on legal costs as was spent by the entire of ILA! Legal bills ate up more than ILA and General Operations put together. They are now 29% of NRA's entire budget; no corporation can survive legal expenses like that. At what point will the board recognize that LaPierre and his cronies are too expensive a luxury for hard times?
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Further Thoughts on NRA’s 2022 Finances


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Since the previous post, we've had time to reflect. The financial report shows finances through the end of August, 8 months. We can project the year by multiplying the year to date numbers by 1.33. NB: these will be optimistic projections, since the trends are clearly down, rather than stable.

Projections for the year 2022: revenues, $184 million, expenses $222 million. Deficit, $38 million. The budget had shown a deficit of zero, but this is the actuality. One-sixth of expenses will have to be met by borrowing, despite all the budget cuts and hiring freezes and stopping contributions to employees' pensions. 2023 will probably worsen the deficit, the trend continuing down, and eventually the line of credit NRA borrows against will be exhausted. By the way, projected legal expenses for 2022 are $60 million, or over 1/3 of NRA's total revenues.

Looking at past NRA 990s, in 2018 NRA had total revenue of $352 million, four years later that's fallen by 37%. In 2019, NRA ran a deficit of $12 million, in 2018, a deficit of $2.7 million, in 2017 a deficit of $17 million, and in 2016 one of $45 million. Even in the good years, NRA was spending more than it brought in. The one exception is 2020, when revenues fell only $4 million, and NRA showed a surplus due to salaries being cut by 1/3 ($18 million) via layoffs, unsalaried furloughs, salary cuts, and stopping contributions to employees' retirement funds.

If you were looking at a company, and noted that its revenues had fallen by 37% over four years, it'd laid off many employees and stopped its pension contributions for the rest, it was kept alive only by massive borrowing (1/6 of its budget), it's tied up in legal battles to where its legal budget consumed 1/3 of its revenues, and everything was pointing down for coming years, wouldn't you conclude the company was dying, and the only question was when would it file for real (dissolution) bankruptcy and fade away? Give it a six months or a year, and it will be down there with Blockbuster, Circuit City, and Toys-R-Us.

If you learned that at a meeting of the company's board, one director had moved for the board to be given the full financial data, and the others let his motion die for lack of a second, wouldn't you conclude that the reason why the company was dying was obvious? The company is dying, and its board of directors closes their eyes and plugs their ears and say "go away, we don't want to think about it."
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Strange Turn In The NY Lawsuit


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NRA has been fighting to keep secret the "Frenkel Report," a document drafted by attorney Jacob Frenkel in 2007. It seems that every NRA board member had received an anonymous letter informing them of financial misconduct, including some by Millie Hallow. NRA objected to producing the report in front of the special master handling discovery, lost there, appealed to the judge, lost again, and is now trying again before the judge. That report must be very incriminating. (Clue: Frenkel specializes in white-collar criminal defense and in defending against regulatory actions).

NRA filed, for the judge's reference, New York's position filed with the special master. It contains some startling items:

"For example, the general ledgers should demonstrate NRA funds paid to a group of related entities and individuals, through NRA Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre’s office’s budget, and other budgets centers within the NRA, to a group of related entities and individuals owned by or affiliated with non-party David McKenzie. Evidence indicates that the NRA has paid the McKenzie entities thus far well over $100 million, often with verbal approvals in excess of contracted amounts in violation of NRA policies. The evidence also indicates that payments to the McKenzie entities were internally allocated to various NRA cost centers and dispersed through payments to various affiliated business entities, some located within the same offices within the NRA headquarters, with the same staff, same leadership, and little to no division in their work. This internal accounting obfuscates the magnitude of the amounts paid by the NRA to these businesses. Indeed, there is evidence to suggest that the NRA paid monies to at least one of McKenzie’s businesses, Associated Television Inc. (“ATI”)1, without receiving promised services in return. Witnesses have been unable to testify as to what monies were paid to these entities and insiders and when such payments stopped, if they have. It was only during his testimony at the bankruptcy trial that Defendant LaPierre revealed for the first time his relationship with David McKenzie, including gratis use of McKenzie’s luxury yachts. During his testimony in this action, Mr. LaPierre revealed previously undisclosed information that further establishes a conflict of interest. Mr. LaPierre testified to having received additional expensive gifts and favors from the McKenzies, including paid luxury vacations to numerous exotic locales around the globe for himself and his wife and his wife’s use of McKenzie’s yachts for “girls” and family trips."

Footnote 1:"Mr. LaPierre testified at his deposition on June 27 and 28, 2022, that ATI produced the Crime Strike television series for the NRA. He claims to have filmed segments of this show while in Monaco, the Bahamas or on board the McKenzie’s yacht, thus making his receipt of such free luxury travel, at least in part, a business expense. Mr. LaPierre had not seen the episodes of Crime Strike he allegedly filmed since 2014 and does not know if they aired. Plaintiff asked for information relating to the Crime Strike show, including videos, from the NRA in Plaintiff’s first request for production, no. 38. None were produced. Plaintiff has narrowed the request to episodes including the video filmed in Monaco, the Bahamas or on board a yacht and any evidence showing that such episodes were actually aired. While producing some correspondence with ATI, the NRA has refused to produce the limited video footage sought or to confirm that it does not have information regarding whether such episodes aired. See Ex. B. Plaintiff also asks for an order directing the NRA to produce the requested episodes and evidence, if it has any, of such episodes ever airing."

"During the deposition of NRA Vice-President, long time Board member and Audit Committee Vice Chair David Coy on June 15, 2022, Mr. Coy testified that he drafted a document relating to an “anonymous letter that BOD members received prior to the April 2007 NRA Annual Meeting.” . . . . The document indicates that in 2007, a whistleblower raised some of the identical claims of corruption, waste and lack of adequate internal controls to the entire NRA Board that the Plaintiff is alleging has more recently occurred and in some instances is still occurring within the NRA."

If anyone on the board believes that these are minor matters that will blow over, it's time they took their head out of the sand. Over $100 million to one vendor alone, whose businesses gave their address as NRA HQ? He bestows expensive gifts on the CEO? Millions for a TV program that never aired? Whistleblowers 15 years back, and the board not bothering to investigate?
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NRA 2021 Form 990 Online


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Here it is, submitted last week. We see some interesting things.

The organization is getting hammered financially. Contributions fell from $105 million to $84 million, and total revenue from $282 million to $227 million. In its peak year, 2018, just before the scandals broke, total revenues were over $350 million. 2021 figures show a decline of 35% in three years.

This did not stop the organization from paying $11 million to one "consultant" (owned by the fellow who gave the LaPierres vacations and the use of his yacht, and which gives its address as NRA HQ), $13 million to a fundraiser, and $20 million to attorney Bill Brewer.


Another thing: NRA got into a legal battle with Chris Cox, who was head of ILA until LaPierre suspended him. Thereafter, Cox agreed to a severance payment, of something over $2 million. Then NRA sued him over that. A year ago, we reported that NRA has already paid Brewer's law $8 million, to fight a $2 million case. The Form 990 discloses that NRA paid Cox $2.4 million in damages and paid his attorneys $3.7 million. So NRA was on the hook for at least $11.7 million in legal fees, to arbitrate a $2 million case!


The only sense we make of that is that LaPierre had a grudge against Cox, and if it cost NRA $11 million to act it out, well, it didn't come out of LaPierre's pocket. It came out of the members' pockets.

Miscellaneous: By the bylaws, directors are uncompensated volunteers, but Marion Hammer got her usual $270,000, not bad for 5 hours work a week (also reported on the 990). Add to that her $110,000 from United Sportsmen of Florida, which is mostly financed by ILA. NRA's total legal outlays were $36 million; the difference between this and the Brewer firm's billings were probably attributable to the NRA's failed bankruptcy filing that year. We've projected that NRA's legal expenses for 2022 will be a ruinous $60.5 million. That's TWICE what NRA spent in its all-out effort to elect Donald Trump in 2016, and nearly FOUR TIMES what it spent on his electoral run in 2020.

It looks as if NRA's "leadership" has abandoned its goals of protecting the 2nd Amendment and promoting sport shooting, in favor of one of financing the legal industry
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Video On NRA Finances


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Mrgunsngear has a Youtube video entitled "The NRA Is Going Bankrupt Due to Wayne LaPierre." It has a lot of what we've seen, and also has 58,000 views and nearly 1,600 comments in the last week.

To make sure that NRA does indeed spend $60 million on legal bills this year, the NRA attorneys appealed the judges discovery orders (including the Frenkel report, which they must really want to keep secret). John Frazer had earlier appealed the court's refusal to dismiss three counts against him, which would have required him to repay the NRA a beaucoup of money if found guilty. Neither of these appeals stops the case moving ahead. There have been 900 documents filed in the case so far, which of course explains the tens of million in legal fees.

Elsewhere in the New York case, everyone agreed to extend the filing date of the "Notice of Issue" to December 13, 2022, and the judge ordered it done. After the notice of issue, the judge can set a trial date, and we're guessing mid-2023. New York's attorneys seem to be in no hurry, probably because they understand that the NRA will bleed itself to death financially before the case can be tried.
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I will continue to support the N.R.A.
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MTURBO wrote: November 27th, 2022, 5:29 pm I will continue to support the N.R.A.
I bet you voted for Biden, Hobbs, and Kelly as well.


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Wayne thanks you
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Motion To Seal in NY Case


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NRA has moved to seal (file but keep secret from the public) the 2003 Frenkel report, which we've mentioned before. That report must be really hot, given that NRA leadership is fighting hard to keep it secret 19 years after it was written. All that is known is that its author, Jacob Frenkel, was a specialist in defending white-collar criminal cases. A quote from the motion to seal hints at how hot the report is, in terms of how much is being done to keep it secret.

"The sealing order is necessary because (i) the Document is privileged and otherwise non-discoverable; (ii) the NRA is pursuing two appeals (one with the Court and one with the Appellate Division) regarding any rulings to the contrary; and (iii) the NYAG agreed that the NRA would produce the document to the NYAG in the interim subject to numerous restrictions, including the NYAG's promise that should the NRA prevail on appeal, the NRA will return the document to the NRA and not use it or work product derived from it."

Back in 2003, the report was sent to the Audit Committee. That it's being kept top secret today probably means that it was kept secret from the rest of the board of directors. It must be linked to a person or persons still with NRA now or recently, or no one would care this much. Here is part of the deposition of director David Coy, which mentions that the report concerned "expenditures" and (maybe, it's not clear) "II and IS," which were the companies owned by the mysterious unlicensed travel agent who leased executive jets for LaPierre
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Re: NY Attorney Dissolve the NRA

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I just can't believe the board of directors voted him in again. GOA and 2A foundation is where my money goes now.
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