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Post by librarylady on May 11, 2019 22:45:12 GMT
In a letter North and NRA official Richard Childress sent to top NRA officials last month, North said he was “deeply concerned about the extraordinary legal fees the NRA has incurred” from attorney Bill Brewer. “The amount appears to be approximately $24 million over a 13-month period,” the nine-page letter, which has been viewed by HuffPost, said. North said the gun group was burning nearly $100,000 every day, “seven days a week, every day of every month,” on paying the law firm. “The Brewer invoices are draining NRA cash at a mindboggling speed,” the letter said. LaPierre, meanwhile, billed the group’s ad agency Ackerman McQueen for more than half a million dollars over the years, letters show. His purchases included a $39,000 shopping spree at a Beverly Hills store.
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Post by Merge on May 11, 2019 22:47:58 GMT
Thoughts and prayers.
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Post by bc2ca on May 11, 2019 23:05:07 GMT
Looking forward to watching the organization implode.
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Post by mustlovecats on May 11, 2019 23:14:53 GMT
I really don’t care - do u?
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Post by refugeepea on May 11, 2019 23:35:15 GMT
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sassyangel
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Post by sassyangel on May 12, 2019 0:20:23 GMT
*Plays the worlds smallest violin*
Boo hoo.
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Post by hop2 on May 12, 2019 1:16:50 GMT
Thoughts & Prayers at this devastating time.
I think it’s too soon to discuss solutions to this issue
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Post by pierkiss on May 12, 2019 1:20:28 GMT
Sucks to be them. But I don’t believe it.
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edie3
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Post by edie3 on May 12, 2019 1:55:24 GMT
cry me a river
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Post by trollie on May 12, 2019 3:04:27 GMT
Too bad, so sad.
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Post by fuji on May 12, 2019 3:45:48 GMT
Bummer. I bet there are some nervous Republicans. Who is going to fund their campaigns?
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Post by crazy4scraps on May 12, 2019 4:35:55 GMT
Bummer. I bet there are some nervous Republicans. Who is going to fund their campaigns? No worries! They will just find some more Russian oligarchs that can give them more money. It’s all good!
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Post by LiLi on May 12, 2019 4:44:20 GMT
Pull yourself up by your bootstraps and quit being lazy.
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Post by lucyg on May 12, 2019 4:47:40 GMT
I had to Like every single post in this thread. ha hahaha haha
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Post by Deleted on May 12, 2019 5:08:08 GMT
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Post by katybee on May 12, 2019 5:43:27 GMT
So I read an article this often happens when there is a Republican president in office. Because there is no “threat” to gun rights, people are not as willing to give. But the minute a threat is perceived, i.e. a Democratic president, then people start donating like crazy.
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Post by ashley on May 12, 2019 12:36:52 GMT
So I read an article this often happens when there is a Republican president in office. Because there is no “threat” to gun rights, people are not as willing to give. But the minute a threat is perceived, i.e. a Democratic president, then people start donating like crazy. Also there is always an influx of donations after a mass public shooting or school shooting.
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Post by pyccku on May 12, 2019 12:40:27 GMT
So I read an article this often happens when there is a Republican president in office. Because there is no “threat” to gun rights, people are not as willing to give. But the minute a threat is perceived, i.e. a Democratic president, then people start donating like crazy. Also there is always an influx of donations after a mass public shooting or school shooting. Oooh, let’s think like those crazy Q people! The NRA is secretly supporting school shooting operations in order to increase donations. Just as the parents and students are “crisis actors” - the shooters are paid and selected and trained by the NRA.
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Post by anniebygaslight on May 12, 2019 12:53:57 GMT
Good.
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Post by iamkristinl16 on May 12, 2019 13:06:37 GMT
Why do they have so many legal fees?
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Post by Deleted on May 12, 2019 13:24:48 GMT
This makes me so happy. Members' hard-earned dues going to enrich the rich. Couldn't happen to a nice bunch of folks. "But to an extent not previously known, a primary activity of NRA executives and insiders has been their own enrichment. An investigation by The Trace, published in partnership with The New Yorker, reveals a web of business arrangements that have steered hundreds of millions of dollars to NRA executives, contractors, and favored vendors. Many of the payments and contracts present clear conflicts of interest; some pass through multiple entities controlled by the same people, obscuring the amounts flowing to those benefiting. Together, according to experts in nonprofit law, they could threaten the NRA’s tax-exempt status. " www.thetrace.org/2019/04/nra-money-investigation/
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Post by lizacreates on May 12, 2019 15:35:31 GMT
Why do they have so many legal fees? Lawsuits against Lockton Affinity, Gov Cuomo, their own PR firm Ackerman McQueen. Also, they’re currently being investigated by New York State, the IRS and the Senate Intelligence Committee. There’s too much cheating and thieving within their organization. Wouldn’t it be a particularly satisfying form of justice if their demise is brought on by their own malfeasance? It would achieve what no gun control advocate has been able to.
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Post by lbrock44 on May 13, 2019 4:53:25 GMT
Watch out NRA, you'll shoot your eye out.
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Post by roberta on May 13, 2019 12:13:11 GMT
[/quote]Also there is always an influx of donations after a mass public shooting or school shooting. [/quote][ OMG! I wish there was some way to publicly shame these people
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Post by pierkiss on May 13, 2019 14:50:52 GMT
So I read an article this often happens when there is a Republican president in office. Because there is no “threat” to gun rights, people are not as willing to give. But the minute a threat is perceived, i.e. a Democratic president, then people start donating like crazy. Also there is always an influx of donations after a mass public shooting or school shooting. That’s gross. And if it’s true, then they should have plenty of money, seeing as how we have a mass shooting every 3rd day or so in this country.
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Post by lisae on May 13, 2019 15:20:37 GMT
Perhaps their commander-in-chief can give them a crash course in bankruptcy law. That is one thing he is an expert on.
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Post by Deleted on May 15, 2019 12:39:44 GMT
"Senior N.R.A. executives are well compensated; eight of them make more than the head of the American Red Cross, a tax-exempt organization with 10 times the revenue of the N.R.A. Mr. LaPierre’s total pay spiked in 2015 to more than $5 million because of an early retirement payout. Mr. North did, in effect, turn the presidency into a paid position by signing a deal with Ackerman to host an NRATV web series called “American Heroes,” though Mr. LaPierre told the board that Mr. North appeared in only three of the dozen expected episodes. N.R.A. officials have said Mr. North was not supposed to work directly for the group’s contractor, because of the potential for conflicts of interest. Mr. North has rebutted that. “Wayne knew about my contract since its inception,” he wrote in his letter to the two N.R.A. officials. “Wayne helped negotiate the contract.”"... Another former staff member, Andrew Lander, wrote in his own open letter that “the things that are taking place within the organization, I feel are things that corrupt Congressmen would be doing” — not, he said, the leaders of the “oldest civil rights organization in the country.”... Take Nevada. For years, there had been a push to close loopholes in background checks related to private gun sales, culminating in a successful 2016 ballot initiative. Adam Laxalt, then the state’s Republican attorney general, appeared in a commercial opposing the measure, and was criticized when he later helped block it from going into effect. When Mr. Laxalt ran for governor last year, he had the N.R.A.’s endorsement and A+ rating, and was fiercely opposed by gun control groups. He lost to Steve Sisolak, a Democrat who in February signed background check legislation into law. www.nytimes.com/2019/05/14/us/nra-finances-executives-board-members.html
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Post by Deleted on May 15, 2019 12:47:44 GMT
"The National Rifle Association continues to implode amidst accusations of financial mismanagement by its highest-ranking officials. Now two board members are speaking out against the gun rights group. Recent statements by newly elected NRA President Carolyn Meadows “are outright lies,” NRA board member Allen West said in a statement on Tuesday.West, a former Republican congressman from Florida, was referring to a series of public comments by Meadows, who claimed that board members were already aware of the group’s massive financial troubles. On Friday, a trove of internal NRA documents was released anonymously online and verified by both The Daily Beast and The Wall Street Journal. They revealed that the group’s recently departed president, Oliver North, had warned top-ranking officials that the NRA was drowning in legal fees. “The amount appears to be approximately $24 million over a 13-month period,” said the nine-page letter written in April, which has been viewed by HuffPost. North said the group was burning nearly $100,000 every day, “seven days a week, every day of every month,” in payments to a law firm. Another letter revealed that NRA CEO and executive vice president Wayne LaPierre has blown through more than a half-million dollars on clothing, travel and other expenses over the years, including a $39,000 shopping spree at a Beverly Hills store. For all the damning information, Meadows said in a statement last week that it was “stale news” and that the “entire board is fully aware of these issues.” But at least two board members say otherwise." www.huffpost.com/entry/nra-board-members-finances-allen-west_n_5cdaf47ce4b0615b081a44ac
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Post by Deleted on May 16, 2019 3:24:06 GMT
"The disclosures prompted board member Allen West to speak out. On Tuesday he announced that he had previously called for LaPierre's resignation and argued that "it is imperative that the NRA cleans its own house." A second NRA board member followed suit on his Facebook page by writing, "it is time for new management." These developments, combined with a cascade of stories about other incidents of runaway spending at the gun rights organization, especially rankled former rank-and-file NRA employees. They told NPR about low wages, pension problems and a culture of fear within the organization that treated ordinary staff very differently than its leadership.Especially upsetting was the disclosure of these enormous costs despite one fact acknowledged in documents obtained by NPR: The company has underfunded pensions affecting hundreds of former and current employees — even as LaPierre made $1.4 million in 2017, according to the group's most recent financial disclosures." www.npr.org/2019/05/15/722960414/as-leaks-show-lavish-nra-spending-former-staff-detail-poor-conditions-at-nonprof
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Post by Deleted on May 16, 2019 3:30:00 GMT
"The company behind NRATV was paying for National Rifle Association chief Wayne LaPierre’s expensive Italian suits and foreign travel, before charging at least some of those costs back to the NRA itself. Sound like a puzzling arrangement? You’re not alone. New York state non-profit attorneys told TPM that the setup raised serious questions about whether LaPierre was using an NRA vendor to conceal costs for his luxury purchases from the organization’s books, and could be fodder for an ongoing investigation into the non-profit by New York Attorney General Letitia James. These allegations come from documents that were leaked anonymously online on May 10 and subsequently verified by the Wall Street Journal and Daily Beast amid a very public falling out between the NRA and its longtime advertising firm, Ackerman McQueen, which produced NRATV. Specifically, the documents raise questions over whether the NRA’s board was aware of the luxury expenses and approved them as required under New York state statutes governing non-profits. “This is a goldmine for the attorney general. This is like having the investigation handed to you on a silver platter,” Sean Delany, a former chief of the New York Attorney General’s charities bureau, told TPM, referring to the documents. New York requires that non-profits be operated in the interests of the organization’s stated mission and not to benefit its leadership; if the expenses were concealed from the board, regulators may see it as an attempt to circumvent statutory requirements or as an unreported form of compensation, raising potentially troubling questions for the IRS.
New York also defines related party dealing as any arrangement where an insider has a financial stake and the non-profit participates. In this case, the NRA has had numerous contracts with Ackerman, while the vendor appears to have agreed to pay LaPierre not in cash, but in suits and foreign travel. " talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/wayne-lapierre-new-york-ag-investigation
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