New York Attorney General Launches Investigation Into NRA Operations

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The Truth About Guns by Dan Zimmerman Apr 28, 2019

During yesterday’s National Rifle Association membership meeting, one of the organization’s foes that Executive director Wayne LaPierre singled out for criticism was New York’s newly-elected attorney general Letitia James. Now, in the wake of allegations of overspending, conflicts of interest and a lack of internal controls, James has announced that her office has opened a formal investigation of the NRA.

As we’ve noted, the NRA is chartered in New York, going back to its founding. That gives it the power to regulate the organization. From the New Yorker . . .

    James Fishman, a co-author of “New York Nonprofit Law and Practice: With Tax Analysis,” a leading text on nonprofit law, told me, “There is no such thing as a director who doesn’t direct. You’re responsible to make yourself aware of what’s going on. If the board doesn’t know, they’ve breached their duty of care, which is against the law in New York,” where the N.R.A. is chartered. According to Owens, the former I.R.S. official, New York State “could sanction board members, remove board members, disband the board, or close down the organization entirely.”

This is a very real threat to the nation’s oldest civil rights organization. See the AP’s report below, which notes that subpoenas — no doubt for both officers and board members — have been issued by the AG . . .

    NEW YORK (AP) — New York state’s attorney general, who promised during her campaign to (investigate) the National Rifle Association’s nonprofit status, has begun an investigation into the finances of the gun owners’ group, her spokeswoman said Saturday.

    “The Office of New York State Attorney General Letitia James has launched an investigation related to the National Rifle Association (NRA),” spokeswoman Kelly Donnelly said in an email. “As part of this investigation, the Attorney General has issued subpoenas.”

More: https://www.thetruthaboutguns.com/2019/04/daniel-zimmerman/new-york-attorney-general-launches-investigation-into-nra-operations/

[txradioguy]

Wayne LaPierre needs a boogeyman to cover up the fact that he and the rest of the old bulls in the executive suite have for decades fattened their bank accounts while doing very little in return for it's members where the 2nd Amendment is concerned.  And they've developed such an incestuous relationship with an ad agency that you can't tell where the NRA begins and Ackerman-McQueen ends.

Oliver North found out the hard way what happens when you confront the NRA executive suite about their graft and corruption.

[Smokin Joe]

Wayne LaPierre needs a boogeyman to cover up the fact that he and the rest of the old bulls in the executive suite have for decades fattened their bank accounts while doing very little in return for it's members where the 2nd Amendment is concerned.  And they've developed such an incestuous relationship with an ad agency that you can't tell where the NRA begins and Ackerman-McQueen ends.

Oliver North found out the hard way what happens when you confront the NRA executive suite about their graft and corruption.

I was thoroughly disappointed when they let a bureaucrat get away with misdefining what a bump stock does, (It doesn't make a semi-auto fully automatic, the firearm remains semi-automatic, requiring the trigger to be pulled for every round fired). They not only let the "reasoning" stand unopposed, but failed to fight the ruling, when they should have been after the NFA of '34 a long time ago. My Golden Eagles membership will lapse...and I'm looking at GOA.

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