NY V. NRA: Another Day of Trial, With Exhibits

This report indicates not much happened. Apart from–

“Frazer didn’t believe that LaPierre had violated his trust by withholding some of this information from him — but he couldn’t say the same for other NRA members.

“Did he breach the trust of other members of the NRA?” state attorney Emily Stern asked.

“I’d have to say probably, yes,” Frazer said. “Policies should be followed.””

A more detailed account. Among other things, NRA has paid the Brewer law firm over $100 million over four years (which doesn’t include this trial).

NY did introduce some exhibits, meant to summarize the other exhibits for the jury (and also to get them thinking in terms of large numbers)–

Exhibit A: Leased corporate jet flights, hundreds of them, with few costing under $20,000.

Exhibit B: How many of them stopped in the Bahamas, in Nebraska (home of Mrs. LaPierre’s niece) or both. Nebraska alone accounts for over $2 million.

Exhibit 3.a: Suspect payments, Total of $369 million over eight years. The first four are David KcKenzie’s companies, total of $114 million. The next three are Ackerman McQueen, total over $215 million. The three after that are Gayle Stanford, who booked the executive jets for the LaPierres, total over $16 million.

Exhibit 3.bb: Payments for limousine services, $807,000 over eight years. No taxis or Ubers for this trendy crowd! Woody Phillips alone accounted for over $202,000. Millie Hallow and Tyler Schropp racked up over $100,000 each.

7 thoughts on “NY V. NRA: Another Day of Trial, With Exhibits

  1. The amounts are staggering in the misuse of members money.
    Where is the Board in demanding restitution for these amounts?
    Oh right – the Board, that did not properly execute their fiduciary responsibility, are also culpable for restitution……. and if the Board thinks that the D&O insurance protects them, or that there is an adequate amount of coverage to protect them, they need to have their attorney’s read the policies.

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  2. $369 million spent over eight years that had minimal impact (if any) on advocating for gun rights. I believe most of the BOD has lost sight of the primary reason our organization exists, and therefore must go.

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  3. The board (structurally) needs to be reduced in size significantly. NRA, the org, should have brought suit against WLP and others as soon as this trial started.

    Unless there is structural reform and a commitment to membership control and transparency, I don’t think there’s much of a future for the NRA. Subsequent suits against it (if it doesn’t secure its own victim-of-crime status) will bankrupt it in fact.

    The biggest tragedy in the present moment is that NRA is still not defending itself in an assertive and consistently aggressive manner from these crooks. We know why – the insiders still run the show. An org that is reformed and wants to survive would have cut ties and brought canons to bear against WLP.

    Every board member for the past twenty years is going to wear the legacy of destroying our oldest civil rights org and greatest gun advocacy organization, not Letitia. Congrats, y’all. Ya done fucked up our org cuz you’re lazy, self-dealing, and spineless, not doing the work that the job demanded, just wearing a title. Pitiful representatives of our community. Anybody who says they were a board member of the NRA in living memory, with very, very, few exceptions if any, should hang their heads in shame until the end. Oh, you were a board member? GFY! “But we were powerless!” Yeah, well, not sure what to tell you. Here we are. And you wore the title with pride.

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