At the N.R.A., a Cash Machine Sputtering
"Amid anxiety over falling revenue and mounting legal trouble has come news that the gun group’s longtime chief executive, Wayne LaPierre,
billed $275,000for purchases at the Zegna luxury men’s wear boutique in Beverly Hills. Its largely ceremonial president, Oliver L. North, had a contract worth millions of dollars a year. And a litany of payments benefited prominent officials, like the $60,000 for advertising on a TV show featuring the rock musician and N.R.A. board member
Ted Nugent........
The role of the foundation is among the issues being examined in a new investigation into the N.R.A.’s tax-exempt status by the New York attorney general, Letitia James. The N.R.A. and the charity received separate letters last month from Ms. James’s office ordering them to preserve pertinent records, according to several people who had seen them.
The N.R.A.’s financial woes — what Mr. North called an “existential crisis”
Mr. LaPierre, who earns more than $1.4 million a year, billed
$267,000 in personal expenses, including flights and limousine service for trips to the Bahamas, Florida, Nevada, Budapest and an Italian lake resort, the leaked documents show. He even arranged for Ackerman to pay an intern’s rent....."
Milking the Trumpers.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/at-the-nra-a-cash-machine-sputtering/ar-AABmWbL
Leaked internal documents:
ftp://67.190.79.35/sda1/nra2019documents1-clean/
