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New York (AFP) - A jury in New York found former NRA gun lobby chief Wayne LaPierre liable Friday for corruptly mismanaging the organization. Lapierre and a senior executive of the National Rifle Association must pay a penalty of $6.35 million "for years of corruption and greed," said state attorney general Letitia James. LaPierre, facing a civil trial where he was accused of using the National Rifle Association as a personal piggy bank, was found by the jury to have cost the organization $5.4 million because of his misconduct -- although he has since repaid $1 million of that. LaPierre said ...
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New York (AFP) - A jury in New York found former NRA gun lobby chief Wayne LaPierre liable Friday for corruptly mismanaging the organization, US media reported. LaPierre, who faced a civil trial where he was accused of using the National Rifle Association as a "personal piggy bank," was also found by the jury to have cost the organization $5.4 million because of his misconduct -- although he has since repaid $1 million of that. LaPierre said in January he would step down as president of the NRA, citing unspecified health reasons. New York state attorney general Letitia James brought a lawsuit...
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New York (AFP) - The outgoing leader of the divisive US gun lobby, the NRA, is facing allegations he misappropriated funds from the organization and ran it as his personal fiefdom. Wayne LaPierre went on trial in New York on Monday accused of using the NRA as a "personal piggy bank." The case is expected to last several days. He said last week he would step down as president of the National Rifle Association, citing unspecified health reasons. "LaPierre and NRA senior management misappropriated millions of dollars to fund personal benefits, including private jets, expensive meals, and even fam...
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Washington (AFP) - Wayne LaPierre, the longtime head of the National Rifle Association (NRA), announced on Friday that he is resigning as leader of the US gun lobby, just days before the start of his corruption trial. The 74-year-old LaPierre cited unspecified health reasons for his decision to step down from January 31 as chief executive of the NRA. "I've been a card-carrying member of this organization for most of my adult life, and I will never stop supporting the NRA and its fight to defend Second Amendment freedom," he said in a statement, referring to the right to "keep and bear arms." "...
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The NRA and gun lobbyists are preparing to fight red flag laws being debated in Congress as gun reform legislation gained renewed support following the mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas. This weekend, a bipartisan group of senators agreed on a modest package of gun law reforms. Democrats are determined to use the nation’s grief to champion gun regulation after the second most deadly mass shooting in U.S. history took place in Uvalde, Texas. “Restricting the fundamental human right of law-abiding Americans to defend themselves is not the answer. It never has been,” Wayne LaPierre, the CEO of the N...
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A nonprofit group released a video Wednesday of National Rifle Association (N.R.A.) Chief Wayne LaPierre shooting an African bush elephant several times. The footage was from a 2013 taping for an N.R.A.-sponsored event, but the footage was never aired. In the uncomfortable display, LaPierre shoots the elephant, but does not kill it. He then shoots it twice more at close range, still not killing the massive bush elephant. Later, the safari host finishes the kill. LaPierre’s wife, Susan, shoots another elephant in the face while her guide instructs her to shoot it again in the legs, so it isn’t ...
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Washington (AFP) - Already facing legal problems, Wayne LaPierre, the head of the US National Rifle Association, is now facing ridicule for clumsily hunting an elephant in Botswana. Video of the 2013 hunt was published by The New Yorker and The Trace. It was taken for an NRA documentary but was never aired, The New Yorker said, "because of concerns that it could turn into a public-relations fiasco." In the video, LaPierre wounds an elephant with his first shot. He then shoots it three more times at point-blank range but hits it in the wrong place. A hunting guide finally fires the shot that di...
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The National Rifle Association (NRA) said that it has become aware of a “significant diversion of its assets” in a 2019 990-tax form. This public filing lists organization assets and liabilities on one of its first pages and breaks down employee compensation later in the document.The nonprofit tax-exempt organization’s 2019 filing states that CEO Wayne LaPierre and five former executives received “excess benefits.” The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) uses the term to describe nonprofit entity’s executives use an internal business organization funds to enrich themselves. “The National Rifle Asso...
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