N.Y. attorney general is doing conservatives a favor by going after NRA: They’re its victims | Salon.com
As James said in her statement, the NRA “went unchecked for decades while top executives funneled millions into their own pockets,” and the degree of corruption was so broad and deep that the scheme has “basically destroyed all the assets of the NRA.”
Many of the details of how NRA executives treated the tax-exempt nonprofit like a personal piggy bank have been widely reported in recent years, but the lawsuit generated even more astounding details, including allegations that NRA head Wayne LaPierre spent a million dollars of NRA funds on private chartered flights and vacations for his family. The result of this mismanagement and all the legal infighting as various NRA grifters sue each other has hobbled the organization financially, leading to massive layoffs and setting up this effort to disband the group entirely.
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I’m not an NRA member in spite of their energetic politics. It’s too obviously a big parody of a living high off the hog lobbying organization. I was a member years ago and got tired of their glossy, insistent fund raising. This scandal doesn’t surprise me a bit. The NRA probably is an irredeemably corrupt organization. Which makes it the same as most of the rest of them.