NRA's Wayne LaPierre resigns before corruption trial

[mollyanna58]

For health reasons. Uh-huh.


www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/nra-chief-wayne-lapierre-resigns-days-before-civil-corruption-trial/ar-AA1mwLg5?ocid=entnewsntp&cvid=8069480c32ee4b0f81ae9d5b01318f7f&ei=14


Wayne LaPierre, the executive vice president of the National Rifle Association, has announced he is resigning from the organization days before the start of a civil corruption trial.



LaPierre, 74, cited health reasons, according to the NRA. The resignation will be effective Jan. 31.



"With pride in all that we have accomplished, I am announcing my resignation from the NRA," LaPierre said in a statement. "I've been a card-carrying member of this organization for most of my adult life, and I will never stop supporting the NRA and its fight to defend Second Amendment freedom. My passion for our cause burns as deeply as ever."

[Tennesseer]

Prison can tend to his health issues.

Just like prison can tend to trump's bone spurs.

[djAdvocate]

i talked to this guy on the phone one time.

arrogant prick.

[Tennesseer]

Jan 5, 2024 20:14:36 GMT -5 djAdvocate said:

i talked to this guy on the phone one time.

arrogant prick.

I once talked to Dr. Nick (George Constantine Nichopoulos), Elvis Presley's over prescribing doctor about heroin usage for a work case I was investigating.

[happyhoix]

A while back I read about how this guy was having bespoke suits made for him, and used private jets to stay at high end hotels, all on the NRA membership fees.

NRA actually started as a reasonable sportsmen’s group that wanted to promote hunting safety, before it got taken over and became the puppet of the gun manufacturers, with assholes like LaPierre in their pocket. Maybe now they can shut it down and try again.

[tractor]

He's the reason I am not an NRA member. I too have met him. He travels with a bunch of bodyguards, and is very arrogant. He and Trump use the same playbook, spend money on anything you want, then plead to the masses to send in more in support of freedom.

Maybe when he's gone and locked away, the NRA can get back to their original mission of gun safety and marksmanship. The NRA is the organization the pushed through many of the current gun laws back in the 1930's when they cared more about the people, and less about making money.

[djAdvocate]

Jan 6, 2024 8:03:30 GMT -5 tractor said:

He's the reason I am not an NRA member. I too have met him. He travels with a bunch of bodyguards, and is very arrogant. He and Trump use the same playbook, spend money on anything you want, then plead to the masses to send in more in support of freedom.

Maybe when he's gone and locked away, the NRA can get back to their original mission of gun safety and marksmanship. The NRA is the organization the pushed through many of the current gun laws back in the 1930's when they cared more about the people, and less about making money.

this is PRECISELY how i feel, tractor.

i was a card carrying member of the NRA.  they taught me how to shoot as a teenager, and i got a membership through Boy Scouts.

they have gone straight down the shitter.

[swamp]

I fully support LaPierre and his cronies spending lots and lots of cash on themselves.   Less money for lobbying.   furthermore, the inappropriate use of funds by the NRA has been in the news for years.  If you're still giving them money, you deserve to lose it.   

[swamp]

From the NY Law Journal 1/9/24:


Former head of the National Rifle Association Wayne LaPierre ran the gun-rights
organization as a king, stacking the board with loyalists and maintaining power through
secrecy and suppression, the New York Attorney General’s Office told jurors Monday.


LaPierre, 74, sat quietly in the gallery during the openings, taking notes on a legal pad.
Monday’s proceeding followed his Friday announcement that he would be retiring on
January 31 after helming the organization for 30 years, citing health reasons.In her opening statements, Special Counsel Monica Connell alleged that LaPierre ran
the nonprofit as “Wayne’s World for decades” while using the organization to fund his
own luxury lifestyle.

The New York Attorney General’s office sued the NRA, LaPierre, Wilson “Woody”
Phillips, John Frazer, and Joshua Powell in 2020, alleging a decades-long fraud in
which members of the senior leadership diverted tens of millions in funds for personal
use.

Powell, former NRA executive director of operations and chief of staff to LaPierre,
reached a $100,000 settlement with the AG’s Office on Friday. As part of the
agreement, Powell admitted to misusing charitable funds.  (Commentary by Swamp:  It looks like Powell flipped) 

In her openings, Connell walked jurors through an overview of the allegations: that NRA
executives breached their fiduciary duties by permitting transactions that were against
the organization’s best interests while routinely ignoring or breaching internal controls
and repeatedly violating whistleblower law. 

LaPierre retained largely unchallenged control within the organization, and did so by
hiring people who were loyal to him over the cause, Connell stated.

One of those people was Frazer, the NRA’s general counsel who had only practiced law
for two years and had no knowledge of nonprofit law or experience working for a similar
organization.

Connell told jurors they would hear evidence that Powell once told LaPierre the
organization needed “much stronger general counsel.”

“We can control John, so we have to keep him here,” LaPierre allegedly replied.
Connell asked the panel to find the defendants liable for violating New York law
prohibiting improper related party transactions, liable for violating New York not-for-profit whistleblower protections, and liable for making materially false and misleading
statements in connection with the AG’s investigation.

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I can't quote the whole story.   This is just the good part. 

[azucena]

The misuse of power kinda sounds like the FIFA documentary I'm watching on Netflix.

[djAdvocate]

sounds like Trump Administration 2.0

[Tennesseer]

Wayne LaPierre's brain is shrinking, and he is too ill to commit to all-day testimony in his NRA corruption trial, new court filing says

Longtime NRA leader Wayne LaPierre is too ill to commit to all-day testimony in his ongoing corruption trial in New York, his lawyer said in a court document made public Friday.

LaPierre will step down from the NRA's helm at the end of January due to chronic Lyme disease, his defense has said. In the new filing, his lawyer asked the trial judge for a "reasonable accommodation" allowing the nonprofit's leader flexibility in testifying.

LaPierre is expected to be called to the witness stand by the New York state attorney's office as early as next week. But he may be too "fatigued" to withstand full days of testimony and may need to break up his time on the witness stand into multiple shorter days, his lawyer said.

His symptoms include "cognitive decline" due to "significant cerebral volume loss," one doctor wrote this month, according to a letter included in the filing written by his doctor, Sam Pappas.

Rest of article here: Wayne LaPierre's brain is shrinking, and he is too ill to commit to all-day testimony in his NRA corruption trial, new court filing says

[haapai]

At this moment, I really wish that PMD was a neurologist. 

[pulmonarymd]

Unlikely he has chronic Lyme Disease. He likely has dementia. However, I think the most likely explanation is this is a tactic by his lawyer to slow the trial down and garner sympathy. Everyone will have evidence  of cerebral atrophy on CT scan as we age. It is a common aging process. The real question gets to the effect on cognition, which can only be assessed by a clinical exam(starting with those cognitive tests that Trump likes to brag about acing). The prosecution should ask for cognitive testing by an independent Neurologist to see if he truly is having cognitive difficulties

[djAdvocate]

the best thing about Trump is that his personality inhibits such a defense.

he is getting hung by his own petard.

not to make everything about Trump. just acknowledging facts about egomaniacs.

[andi9899]

Jan 6, 2024 8:03:30 GMT -5 tractor said:

He's the reason I am not an NRA member. I too have met him. He travels with a bunch of bodyguards, and is very arrogant. He and Trump use the same playbook, spend money on anything you want, then plead to the masses to send in more in support of freedom.

Maybe when he's gone and locked away, the NRA can get back to their original mission of gun safety and marksmanship. The NRA is the organization the pushed through many of the current gun laws back in the 1930's when they cared more about the people, and less about making money.

The whole Republican party would have to disappear for this to happen IMO.