Opinion | Greg Hunter: Why New York's lawsuit against the NRA is the best thing for good gun owners. - NBCNewsTHINK
What's surprising is just how much more money the leadership is alleged to have been taking from its members — and how many internal controls and tax laws they are alleged to have skirted to do it — while doing so very little to advance their stated goals.
If only part of what's alleged in the New York and D.C. suits proves to be true, LaPierre and his friends have paid themselves tens of millions of dollars in unearned compensation — including at least $64 million worth of lavish vacations, private jets, enormous personal expenses, luxury goods and payoffs for sexual harassment funneled through vendors as business expenses.
lent millions to the NRA proper to offset its budget deficits while supposedly paying millions more in management fees and pursuing almost no charitable purposes whatsoever . The attorneys general charge that the organizations lied to the IRS, state agencies and their own board about where the money was going, hired incompetent and unqualified cronies to solidify their positions and inserted multimillion-dollar poison pills in leaders' contracts to make it extremely expensive to fire them if anyone ever amassed the power to do so.
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