Wayne Lapierre, former CEO of the National Rifle Association (NRA), was found liable by a jury for corruption on Friday.
Lapierre, 74, was the CEO of the NRA for 30 years until his resignation at the end of January 2024.
In February, Lapierre faced a corruption trial for the mismanagement and misspending of the NRA’s funds. New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) brought the case against Lapierre and other NRA executives.
Lapierre was found guilty of using NRA funds on personal luxuries. The jury found that he must repay the NRA $5.4 million. Lapierre has already repaid $1 million of that amount.
Lapierre used NRA funds for luxury clothing boutiques in Beverly Hills and travel expenses to the Bahamas and Europe. Funds also went to a personal stylist for Lapierre’s wife, Susan Lapierre.
As a nonprofit organization, the jury also found the NRA responsible for violating their duties and failing to manage their finances.
Lapierre, 74, was the CEO of the NRA for 30 years until his resignation at the end of January 2024.
In February, Lapierre faced a corruption trial for the mismanagement and misspending of the NRA’s funds. New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) brought the case against Lapierre and other NRA executives.
Lapierre was found guilty of using NRA funds on personal luxuries. The jury found that he must repay the NRA $5.4 million. Lapierre has already repaid $1 million of that amount.
Lapierre used NRA funds for luxury clothing boutiques in Beverly Hills and travel expenses to the Bahamas and Europe. Funds also went to a personal stylist for Lapierre’s wife, Susan Lapierre.
As a nonprofit organization, the jury also found the NRA responsible for violating their duties and failing to manage their finances.
- 2/26/2024
- by Ann Hoang
- Uinterview
The National Rifle Association and its ex-ceo Wayne Lapierre were found liable for misspending millions of dollars on lavish perks.
A New York Jury on Friday found that Lapierre, who steered the NRA for three decades, used charitable funds to pay for exotic vacations, excursions on private jets, and superyachts, and ordered him to pay back $5.4 million, minus what he had already reimbursed the group, which they calculated at just over than $1 million. Jurors also found that the gun-rights group omitted or misrepresented information in its tax filings and broke...
A New York Jury on Friday found that Lapierre, who steered the NRA for three decades, used charitable funds to pay for exotic vacations, excursions on private jets, and superyachts, and ordered him to pay back $5.4 million, minus what he had already reimbursed the group, which they calculated at just over than $1 million. Jurors also found that the gun-rights group omitted or misrepresented information in its tax filings and broke...
- 2/24/2024
- by Charisma Madarang
- Rollingstone.com
Update, 3:57Pm: Donald Trump is going to have to sell a lot of Mar-a-Lago memberships to meet his debt to the state of New York.
With a final judgment officially entered today into the court docket on the now-$454 million fine the former president and family owe from his civil fraud trial, Team Trump is looking at interest of $114,554 a day.
“This judgment shall bear interest from the date of its entry at the statutory rate of 9% per annum,” wrote NY Supreme Court Judge Arthur Engoron yesterday in the document made public today (read it here).
Breaking it down, that’s $111,984 every 24 hours for the ex-Celebrity Apprentice host himself. The sum is based on the total judgment delivered by Judge Engoron of $354.9 million plus the $100 million already accrued in pre-judgment interest for the financial sleight-of-hand Trump, his sons and executives engaged in for decades with banks and more for favorable loans.
With a final judgment officially entered today into the court docket on the now-$454 million fine the former president and family owe from his civil fraud trial, Team Trump is looking at interest of $114,554 a day.
“This judgment shall bear interest from the date of its entry at the statutory rate of 9% per annum,” wrote NY Supreme Court Judge Arthur Engoron yesterday in the document made public today (read it here).
Breaking it down, that’s $111,984 every 24 hours for the ex-Celebrity Apprentice host himself. The sum is based on the total judgment delivered by Judge Engoron of $354.9 million plus the $100 million already accrued in pre-judgment interest for the financial sleight-of-hand Trump, his sons and executives engaged in for decades with banks and more for favorable loans.
- 2/23/2024
- by Dominic Patten and Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
Billing himself as “the best friend gun owners have ever had in the White House,” Donald Trump addressed National Rifle Association members for the eighth time in his political career on Friday night in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania — appearing as the keynote speaker of the NRA Presidential Forum, part of the gun group’s Great American Outdoor Show.
Trump began his address by making promises directly to gun owners. “When I’m back in the Oval Office no one will lay a finger on your firearms,” Trump said. He then alleged: “The...
Trump began his address by making promises directly to gun owners. “When I’m back in the Oval Office no one will lay a finger on your firearms,” Trump said. He then alleged: “The...
- 2/10/2024
- by Tim Dickinson
- Rollingstone.com
On Wednesday, jurors in the National Rifle Association fraud trial in Manhattan heard testimony about a secret $1 million-per-year contract that was paid to NRA President Oliver North in 2018. The contract was not disclosed to the board of directors.
Previous NRA presidents had been unpaid, so the contract raised eyebrows internally.
North butted heads with NRA CEO Wayne Lapierre, and North resigned abruptly in April 2019, alleging that there were financial improprieties at the nonprofit group.
During a board meeting in Irving, Texas, Lapierre announced his departure from the gun rights group a few weeks ago.
The 74-year-old cited health reasons for his decision.
Lapierre is a co-defendant along with the NRA in a case brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James after accusing the organization of corruption. James is seeking to disband the group and make it pay financial penalties.
James claims that Lapierre has used millions of dollars from...
Previous NRA presidents had been unpaid, so the contract raised eyebrows internally.
North butted heads with NRA CEO Wayne Lapierre, and North resigned abruptly in April 2019, alleging that there were financial improprieties at the nonprofit group.
During a board meeting in Irving, Texas, Lapierre announced his departure from the gun rights group a few weeks ago.
The 74-year-old cited health reasons for his decision.
Lapierre is a co-defendant along with the NRA in a case brought by New York Attorney General Letitia James after accusing the organization of corruption. James is seeking to disband the group and make it pay financial penalties.
James claims that Lapierre has used millions of dollars from...
- 1/18/2024
- by Casey Rivera
- Uinterview
On Monday, the National Rifle Association and its former CEO, Wayne Lapierre, went on trial for corruption in a Manhattan courtroom.
The civil case takes place three days after Lapierre’s surprise resignation as the gun rights group’s chief executive.
New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) sued the NRA and Lapierre in August 2020. She claimed that the group transferred millions of dollars so that they could fund luxury perks for top officials, such as travel expenses for Lapierre to several resorts. These include private jets and trips to the Bahamas for Lapierre.
James accused NRA officials of not acquiring board approval for conflicts of interest and insider transactions, as well as agreeing to no-show contracts for associates and retaliating against whistleblowers who suspected financial wrongdoing.
According to James, the organization’s actions violated laws in New York governing nonprofits.
In December, a state appeals court allowed the case...
The civil case takes place three days after Lapierre’s surprise resignation as the gun rights group’s chief executive.
New York Attorney General Letitia James (D) sued the NRA and Lapierre in August 2020. She claimed that the group transferred millions of dollars so that they could fund luxury perks for top officials, such as travel expenses for Lapierre to several resorts. These include private jets and trips to the Bahamas for Lapierre.
James accused NRA officials of not acquiring board approval for conflicts of interest and insider transactions, as well as agreeing to no-show contracts for associates and retaliating against whistleblowers who suspected financial wrongdoing.
According to James, the organization’s actions violated laws in New York governing nonprofits.
In December, a state appeals court allowed the case...
- 1/9/2024
- by Alessio Atria
- Uinterview
Longtime National Rifle Association leader Wayne Lapierre has announced that he will resign from the organization days before the organization is scheduled to stand trial on civil corruption charges in New York.
“The National Rifle Association of America (NRA) announced today that Executive Vice President Wayne Lapierre announced he is stepping down from his position as chief executive of the organization, effective January 31. Long-time NRA executive and Head of General Operations Andrew Arulanandam will become the interim CEO & EVP of the NRA,” the organization wrote in a statement on Friday.
“The National Rifle Association of America (NRA) announced today that Executive Vice President Wayne Lapierre announced he is stepping down from his position as chief executive of the organization, effective January 31. Long-time NRA executive and Head of General Operations Andrew Arulanandam will become the interim CEO & EVP of the NRA,” the organization wrote in a statement on Friday.
- 1/5/2024
- by Nikki McCann Ramirez and Tim Dickinson
- Rollingstone.com
When Herschel Walker wrapped up a campaign appearance several weeks ago, TV news cameras caught a man in sunglasses, briefly conversing with the U.S. Senate candidate as he tried to hand him a lengthy strip of condoms.
It was soon apparent that it was a gag and, generating at least two million views on Twitter, one of the more successful pranks executed by The Good Liars, the comedy duo of Jason Selvig and Davram Stiefler who, since the Occupy protests of 2011, have specialized in infiltrating campaign events and, as best as they can, interacting with candidates and their supporters.
Their satire is largely focused on the Right. They have irritated Donald Trump by heckling him for being “boring.” They have performed an “exorcism” on Ted Cruz. This cycle, Stiefler interrupted a campaign event for J.D. Vance, running for U.S. Senate in Ohio, asking for a refund for Vance’s book,...
It was soon apparent that it was a gag and, generating at least two million views on Twitter, one of the more successful pranks executed by The Good Liars, the comedy duo of Jason Selvig and Davram Stiefler who, since the Occupy protests of 2011, have specialized in infiltrating campaign events and, as best as they can, interacting with candidates and their supporters.
Their satire is largely focused on the Right. They have irritated Donald Trump by heckling him for being “boring.” They have performed an “exorcism” on Ted Cruz. This cycle, Stiefler interrupted a campaign event for J.D. Vance, running for U.S. Senate in Ohio, asking for a refund for Vance’s book,...
- 11/7/2022
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
The Supreme Court on Thursday struck down a provision of New York state’s concealed-carry licensing system, ruling that the state’s laws imposing limits on who could carry concealed weapons in public was unconstitutional.
New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. v. Bruen centers around a 1913 New York law outlining the requirements for carrying a concealed gun in public. In order to be granted a license, someone must either prove that there is a specific “proper cause,” or else have a job that makes them a target, like a judge.
New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. v. Bruen centers around a 1913 New York law outlining the requirements for carrying a concealed gun in public. In order to be granted a license, someone must either prove that there is a specific “proper cause,” or else have a job that makes them a target, like a judge.
- 6/23/2022
- by William Vaillancourt
- Rollingstone.com
Last Week Tonight took last weekend off, meaning tonight’s episode was John Oliver’s first since the May 24 Uvalde, Texas, school shooting in which 19 children and two teachers were massacred. So it was no surprise that Oliver devoted the show to the never-ending gun control debate.
This time, he focused on putting cops in schools, which has been pretty much the only action taken in response to school shootings since Columbine in 1999. Thing is, about the only thing those cops — euphemistically called School Resource Officers, or SROs — have managed...
This time, he focused on putting cops in schools, which has been pretty much the only action taken in response to school shootings since Columbine in 1999. Thing is, about the only thing those cops — euphemistically called School Resource Officers, or SROs — have managed...
- 6/6/2022
- by Ky Henderson
- Rollingstone.com
On the third floor of Houston’s massive convention center, far above the noise and rabble of the gun show at the National Rifle Association’s annual meeting, a luxury hospitality suite was closed to normal NRA members. It was reserved instead for the gun lobby’s biggest donors, who belong to its “Ring of Freedom.” Here, grandees could escape from the masses, sink into plush leather couches, belly up to the refreshment tables, and marvel at a surreal pair of massive taxidermy installations, including one of a grizzly bear felling a moose.
- 5/30/2022
- by Tim Dickinson
- Rollingstone.com
Houston — Nineteen children and two adults were murdered at the Robb Elementary School, in part because the gun lobby has made it legal for 18-year-olds in Texas to buy weapons designed for mass killing.
But to hear National Rifle Association honcho Wayne Lapierre tell it, the real victim here is the NRA.
Lapierre took the stage of the National Rifle Association’s governance meeting Saturday to the strains of AC/DC’s “Thunderstruck” and delivered an angry address in which he painted the NRA as the target of “weaponized government.
But to hear National Rifle Association honcho Wayne Lapierre tell it, the real victim here is the NRA.
Lapierre took the stage of the National Rifle Association’s governance meeting Saturday to the strains of AC/DC’s “Thunderstruck” and delivered an angry address in which he painted the NRA as the target of “weaponized government.
- 5/29/2022
- by Tim Dickinson
- Rollingstone.com
Houston—The biggest names of the National Rifle Association’s annual gun show wouldn’t take the stage until mid-afternoon on Friday. But a young man with a vintage Make America Great hat, and a couple wearing matching “Ultra Maga” shirts, began camping out in the third-floor hallway of the convention center not long after 9 a.m. to guarantee themselves of prime seats for the star attraction: former president Donald Trump.
The timing of this conference, the NRA’s guns-palooza, is beyond perverse, coming just days after 19 students and 2 teachers...
The timing of this conference, the NRA’s guns-palooza, is beyond perverse, coming just days after 19 students and 2 teachers...
- 5/28/2022
- by Tim Dickinson
- Rollingstone.com
On Friday’s episode of MSNBC’s “All In,” host Chris Hayes had harsh words about the astonishing cowardice of police during the Uvalde, Texas school massacre, who he said no longer deserve the benefit of the doubt on anything they say.
He also pointed to the murders of the 19 children and 2 teachers in Uvalde — and the horrifying refusal of local police to stop it — as yet more proof that the pro-vigilante, pro-guns policies pushed by the NRA and allies in the Republican party, are “Bs.”
“There is no reason to take anything anyone from law enforcement in the situation says a face value, full stop,” Hayes said during his remarks Friday. “So that’s what we have now, but it does seem confirmed, even as we likely more in the coming weeks, the worst possible set of facts appears to be the true one. That the police utterly failed,...
He also pointed to the murders of the 19 children and 2 teachers in Uvalde — and the horrifying refusal of local police to stop it — as yet more proof that the pro-vigilante, pro-guns policies pushed by the NRA and allies in the Republican party, are “Bs.”
“There is no reason to take anything anyone from law enforcement in the situation says a face value, full stop,” Hayes said during his remarks Friday. “So that’s what we have now, but it does seem confirmed, even as we likely more in the coming weeks, the worst possible set of facts appears to be the true one. That the police utterly failed,...
- 5/28/2022
- by Ross A. Lincoln
- The Wrap
Houston — The National Rifle Association bills its convention hall as “14 acres of guns & gear.” But the hall is less than 300 miles away from Uvalde — where 19 elementary school students were murdered at a “hardened” school by a lone gunman with an Ar-15, while “good guys with guns” reportedly stood down for nearly an hour — and the convention lineup is shrinking.
The big-name musical acts, including Don “American Pie” McLean and Lee “Proud to Be an American” Greenwood, have bowed out of the “NRA Grand Ole Night of Freedom” concert scheduled for Saturday.
The big-name musical acts, including Don “American Pie” McLean and Lee “Proud to Be an American” Greenwood, have bowed out of the “NRA Grand Ole Night of Freedom” concert scheduled for Saturday.
- 5/27/2022
- by Tim Dickinson
- Rollingstone.com
The National Rifle Association had a clever plan to avoid the state of New York’s efforts to shut it down over allegations of executive self-enrichment: Declare bankruptcy and reincorporate in the Lone Star state. But Tuesday, after a weeks-long trial, a federal judge has called bullshit on the NRA’s Texas two-step. U.S. Bankruptcy Court judge Harlin Hale ruled that the NRA’s bankruptcy petition was “not filed in good faith” and represented, instead, an “effort to gain an unfair litigation advantage” against the state of New York...
- 5/11/2021
- by Tim Dickinson
- Rollingstone.com
Powerful gun lobby the National Rifle Association of America has filed for bankruptcy in the Northern District of Texas where it will reincorporate as a nonprofit, leaving New York State, where it was founded in 1871.
In a bizarre statement Friday, the NRA, which has its physical headquarters in Fairfax, Va., said the plan “involves utilizing the protection of the bankruptcy court.” And it explained that the move will facilitate its exit from “a corrupt political and regulatory environment in New York. The move will enable long-term, sustainable growth and ensure the NRA’s continued success as the nation’s leading advocate for constitutional freedom – free from the toxic political environment of New York.”
Basically, the Association “is dumping New York and organizing its legal and regulatory matters in an efficient forum. The move comes at a time when the NRA is in its strongest financial condition in years,” the group said.
In a bizarre statement Friday, the NRA, which has its physical headquarters in Fairfax, Va., said the plan “involves utilizing the protection of the bankruptcy court.” And it explained that the move will facilitate its exit from “a corrupt political and regulatory environment in New York. The move will enable long-term, sustainable growth and ensure the NRA’s continued success as the nation’s leading advocate for constitutional freedom – free from the toxic political environment of New York.”
Basically, the Association “is dumping New York and organizing its legal and regulatory matters in an efficient forum. The move comes at a time when the NRA is in its strongest financial condition in years,” the group said.
- 1/16/2021
- by Jill Goldsmith
- Deadline Film + TV
The embattled National Rifle Association is seeking an exit from its financial and legal woes by declaring bankruptcy, with a plan to reorganize in the state of Texas.
In a statement to reporters on Friday, NRA CEO Wayne Lapierre said the NRA had reached a “transformational moment” and that a move to Texas opens “a pathway to opportunity, growth and progress.” He added that “an important part of this plan is ‘dumping New York,’ ” where the NRA has been incorporated for more than 150 years, but has come under immense legal pressure,...
In a statement to reporters on Friday, NRA CEO Wayne Lapierre said the NRA had reached a “transformational moment” and that a move to Texas opens “a pathway to opportunity, growth and progress.” He added that “an important part of this plan is ‘dumping New York,’ ” where the NRA has been incorporated for more than 150 years, but has come under immense legal pressure,...
- 1/15/2021
- by Tim Dickinson
- Rollingstone.com
Reboots aren’t just for grown-ups anymore.
The proliferation of streaming platforms reliant on free-flowing programming pipelines has led to the development of new versions of shows such as “Battlestar Galactica” and “True Blood” that last aired when Barack Obama was president. That same industry-shaking shift away from linear and toward streaming, coupled with the emergence of nostalgia and geekdom as dominating cultural forces, has turned kids TV — already accustomed to regularly reimagining corporate-controlled IP — into a hotbed of reboots.
“We’re in an interesting time right now, where, probably more so than ever before, adults who grew up with certain properties are able to still be a part of those fandoms and talk about them and participate in those fandoms very actively,” says Noelle Stevenson, creator of the DreamWorks Animation-produced “She-Ra and the Princesses of Power” for Netflix. “In the past, it was maybe a little bit more of a niche thing.
The proliferation of streaming platforms reliant on free-flowing programming pipelines has led to the development of new versions of shows such as “Battlestar Galactica” and “True Blood” that last aired when Barack Obama was president. That same industry-shaking shift away from linear and toward streaming, coupled with the emergence of nostalgia and geekdom as dominating cultural forces, has turned kids TV — already accustomed to regularly reimagining corporate-controlled IP — into a hotbed of reboots.
“We’re in an interesting time right now, where, probably more so than ever before, adults who grew up with certain properties are able to still be a part of those fandoms and talk about them and participate in those fandoms very actively,” says Noelle Stevenson, creator of the DreamWorks Animation-produced “She-Ra and the Princesses of Power” for Netflix. “In the past, it was maybe a little bit more of a niche thing.
- 1/6/2021
- by Daniel Holloway
- Variety Film + TV
The National Rifle Association is accusing its former top lobbyist of fleecing the organization of more than $1 million from 2015 to 2019. The allegation that Chris Cox benefited from extravagant, unauthorized expenses that were charged to the nonprofit appears in a tax document filed by the NRA in November and provided to Rolling Stone by the organization. Through his lawyer, Cox disputed the allegations.
Until his ouster last year, Cox ran the NRA’s political arm, the Institute for Legislative Action, with a salary of $1.5 million. Cox was forced from this post...
Until his ouster last year, Cox ran the NRA’s political arm, the Institute for Legislative Action, with a salary of $1.5 million. Cox was forced from this post...
- 12/9/2020
- by Tim Dickinson
- Rollingstone.com
National Rifle Association CEO Wayne Lapierre has returned nearly $300,000 to the gun group, in repayment of illicit personal gains, according to an explosive report in the Washington Post. The Post details new tax filings, obtained from the NRA, in which the gun group reportedly admits to a “significant diversion of its assets” — including in the form of “excess benefits” paid out to Lapierre and a handful of other officers. According to the Post, that term is used by the IRS “to describe executives’ enriching themselves at the expense of a nonprofit.
- 11/30/2020
- by Tim Dickinson
- Rollingstone.com
Joshua Powell’s new book Inside the NRA is being released amid an avalanche of pro- and anti-Donald Trump tomes as we enter the final weeks of the 2020 presidential campaign.
But Powell’s book is unique among them, as it is an insider’s tell-all about the National Rifle Association, known for for its electoral power and lobbying sway, blocking even minimal efforts at gun reform.
Powell was a business consultant who had ties to the organization for a number of years before he joined in 2016 as the chief of staff to Wayne Lapierre, the longtime leader and public face of the organization.
Powell is still a staunch defender of gun rights and the Second Amendment, but he writes in his book that the NRA has lost its way — not just in taking extremist positions following the Sandy Hook massacre in 2012, when 20 children and six adults were killed in...
But Powell’s book is unique among them, as it is an insider’s tell-all about the National Rifle Association, known for for its electoral power and lobbying sway, blocking even minimal efforts at gun reform.
Powell was a business consultant who had ties to the organization for a number of years before he joined in 2016 as the chief of staff to Wayne Lapierre, the longtime leader and public face of the organization.
Powell is still a staunch defender of gun rights and the Second Amendment, but he writes in his book that the NRA has lost its way — not just in taking extremist positions following the Sandy Hook massacre in 2012, when 20 children and six adults were killed in...
- 9/12/2020
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
David McKenzie, an Emmy-winning producer and president of the production company Associated Television International Inc., is a prominent figure in New York Attorney General Letitia James’ lawsuit against the National Rifle Association, according to the Wall Street Journal.
As the Journal reported on Friday, McKenzie is not explicitly named in the lawsuit but is the “principal stakeholder in several businesses that have business relationships with the NRA” that received over $100 million from the NRA.
The suit also said that “principal stakeholder” paid for NRA CEO Wayne Lapierre’s trips to the Bahamas, that Lapierre used the stakeholder’s 108-foot yacht, which is “equipped with four staterooms, a 16-foot jet boat, and two jet skis” and that Lapierre flew on a private jet to see McKenzie in Los Angeles at least 20 times from 2013 to 2017.
Also Read: New York Attorney General Files Lawsuit to Dissolve National Rifle Association
Lapierre also did not...
As the Journal reported on Friday, McKenzie is not explicitly named in the lawsuit but is the “principal stakeholder in several businesses that have business relationships with the NRA” that received over $100 million from the NRA.
The suit also said that “principal stakeholder” paid for NRA CEO Wayne Lapierre’s trips to the Bahamas, that Lapierre used the stakeholder’s 108-foot yacht, which is “equipped with four staterooms, a 16-foot jet boat, and two jet skis” and that Lapierre flew on a private jet to see McKenzie in Los Angeles at least 20 times from 2013 to 2017.
Also Read: New York Attorney General Files Lawsuit to Dissolve National Rifle Association
Lapierre also did not...
- 8/14/2020
- by J. Clara Chan
- The Wrap
New York Attorney General Letitia James filed a lawsuit Thursday against the National Rifle Association and a number of its current and former executive leadership, claiming the non-profit organization is “fraught with fraud and abuse.”
In the filing, the Attorney General alleges that improper management has cost the powerful gun lobby organization some $63 million in three years and that leadership had been “violating numerous state and federal laws” by using the organization’s funds for their own personal gain. The NRA’s Executive Vice-President Wayne Lapierre and three others — former...
In the filing, the Attorney General alleges that improper management has cost the powerful gun lobby organization some $63 million in three years and that leadership had been “violating numerous state and federal laws” by using the organization’s funds for their own personal gain. The NRA’s Executive Vice-President Wayne Lapierre and three others — former...
- 8/6/2020
- by Peter Wade
- Rollingstone.com
New York Attorney General Letitia James filed a lawsuit on Thursday to dissolve the National Rifle Association, accusing the powerful gun rights lobby of engaging in a pattern of self-dealing to benefit its leaders.
In the hours before her press conference, there was wild speculation of what she planned, as her office had informed members of the media of a pending “major national announcement.”
The lawsuit — read it here — singles out the longtime leader of the NRA, Wayne Lapierre, as well as current and former senior executives Wilson “Woody” Phillips, Joshua Powell and John Frazier. The suit claims that Lapierre has diverted millions of dollars away from the charitable mission of the organization, at the cost of core services like gun safety, education and training. Among other things, the lawsuit claims that Lapierre and his associates used NRA reserves for personal use, including trips to the Bahamas, private jets and expensive meals.
In the hours before her press conference, there was wild speculation of what she planned, as her office had informed members of the media of a pending “major national announcement.”
The lawsuit — read it here — singles out the longtime leader of the NRA, Wayne Lapierre, as well as current and former senior executives Wilson “Woody” Phillips, Joshua Powell and John Frazier. The suit claims that Lapierre has diverted millions of dollars away from the charitable mission of the organization, at the cost of core services like gun safety, education and training. Among other things, the lawsuit claims that Lapierre and his associates used NRA reserves for personal use, including trips to the Bahamas, private jets and expensive meals.
- 8/6/2020
- by Ted Johnson
- Deadline Film + TV
A long-awaited Senate report into the connections between the National Rifle Association and Russia describes the NRA as a “foreign asset” and underscores the NRA’s connections to, and activities in, Russia could “jeopardize” the organization’s nonprofit status.
The investigation, conducted by ranking member Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and the minority staff of the Senate Finance Committee, “confirms that the NRA, its officers, board members, and donors engaged in a years-long effort to facilitate the U.S.-based activities of Maria Butina and Alexander Torshin,” the report states.
Butina...
The investigation, conducted by ranking member Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and the minority staff of the Senate Finance Committee, “confirms that the NRA, its officers, board members, and donors engaged in a years-long effort to facilitate the U.S.-based activities of Maria Butina and Alexander Torshin,” the report states.
Butina...
- 9/27/2019
- by Tim Dickinson
- Rollingstone.com
In the wake of the Dayton and El Paso mass shootings, John Oliver underscored the public’s demand for “meaningful gun control,” the currently “weakened” state of the NRA and President Donald Trump’s “pathological lack of empathy” on Last Week Tonight Sunday.
The comedian opened the episode by summarizing how Trump managed to brag about his rally crowd sizes and make fun of a political rival while visiting victims at an El Paso hospital. “I was here three months ago, we made a speech, and we had a stage...
The comedian opened the episode by summarizing how Trump managed to brag about his rally crowd sizes and make fun of a political rival while visiting victims at an El Paso hospital. “I was here three months ago, we made a speech, and we had a stage...
- 8/12/2019
- by Ryan Reed
- Rollingstone.com
John Oliver came in hot on Sunday’s Last Week Tonight recapping Donald Trump’s “busy” week which included the largest single-state Ice raid, retweeting conspiracy theories about the death of Jeffrey Epstein and his visit to the sites of last week’s mass shootings where there was footage of him at an El Paso bragging about one of his rally crowd sizes in the city and belittling Beto O’Rourke.
“We all know the struggles to do the bare minimum of being a president,” said Oliver. “But it still generally shocking just how much he struggles to the bare minimum as a f*cking person.” This quip led to a discussion about Trump, gun control and the NRA.
“Trump’s pathological lack of empathy should not distract us from the important question of what action if any, will be taken on guns,” Oliver asked.
Footage of Ohio Governor Mike DeWine...
“We all know the struggles to do the bare minimum of being a president,” said Oliver. “But it still generally shocking just how much he struggles to the bare minimum as a f*cking person.” This quip led to a discussion about Trump, gun control and the NRA.
“Trump’s pathological lack of empathy should not distract us from the important question of what action if any, will be taken on guns,” Oliver asked.
Footage of Ohio Governor Mike DeWine...
- 8/12/2019
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
Washington — Wayne Lapierre, the head of the National Rifle Association, increasingly looks like the last man standing at the powerful gun lobbying group.
Lapierre orchestrated the departures of Oliver North, the former NRA president who raised the alarm about questionable accounting under Lapierre’s watch, and Chris Cox, the former head of the gun group’s powerful political and lobbying groups. Mid-level employees who were not aligned with Lapierre have left the group or been shown the door. Late last week, Jennifer Baker, the longtime top communications aide for the NRA’s lobbying arm,...
Lapierre orchestrated the departures of Oliver North, the former NRA president who raised the alarm about questionable accounting under Lapierre’s watch, and Chris Cox, the former head of the gun group’s powerful political and lobbying groups. Mid-level employees who were not aligned with Lapierre have left the group or been shown the door. Late last week, Jennifer Baker, the longtime top communications aide for the NRA’s lobbying arm,...
- 7/22/2019
- by Andy Kroll
- Rollingstone.com
The National Rifle Association has ceased production of broadcasting arm Nratv and has severed business ties with the advertising firm – Ackerman McQueen- that operated the TV channel.
News of the shut-down was broken last night by The New York Times with the publication of a memo written by NRA chief executive Wayne Lapierre that had been slated to be sent today.
“Many members expressed concern about the messaging on Nratv becoming too far removed from our core mission: defending the Second Amendment,” wrote Lapierre to members. “So, after careful consideration, I am announcing that starting today, we are undergoing a significant change in our communications strategy. We are no longer airing ‘live TV’ programming.”
According to The Times, basing its report on interviews and documents, the NRA has severed all business ties with Ackerman McQueen amid various lawsuits between the two. The split is not a surprise: The NRA...
News of the shut-down was broken last night by The New York Times with the publication of a memo written by NRA chief executive Wayne Lapierre that had been slated to be sent today.
“Many members expressed concern about the messaging on Nratv becoming too far removed from our core mission: defending the Second Amendment,” wrote Lapierre to members. “So, after careful consideration, I am announcing that starting today, we are undergoing a significant change in our communications strategy. We are no longer airing ‘live TV’ programming.”
According to The Times, basing its report on interviews and documents, the NRA has severed all business ties with Ackerman McQueen amid various lawsuits between the two. The split is not a surprise: The NRA...
- 6/26/2019
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
The NRA will shut down production of new content for its streaming-video Nratv outlet, The New York Times reports.
The report said the gun-rights lobbying organization may continue to run older content on the broadband outlet, but it will no longer feature Dana Loesch and other regular hosts in live programming. The demise of programming takes place as the powerful advocacy group has grappled with feuding among some of its top executive and has had its finances examined by New York’s attorney general.
“Many members expressed concern about the messaging on Nratv becoming too far removed from our core mission: defending the Second Amendment,” Wayne Lapierre, the N.R.A.’s longtime chief executive, wrote in a message to members that was reviewed by The Times. “So, after careful consideration, I am announcing that starting today, we are undergoing a significant change in our communications strategy. We are no longer airing ‘live TV’ programming.
The report said the gun-rights lobbying organization may continue to run older content on the broadband outlet, but it will no longer feature Dana Loesch and other regular hosts in live programming. The demise of programming takes place as the powerful advocacy group has grappled with feuding among some of its top executive and has had its finances examined by New York’s attorney general.
“Many members expressed concern about the messaging on Nratv becoming too far removed from our core mission: defending the Second Amendment,” Wayne Lapierre, the N.R.A.’s longtime chief executive, wrote in a message to members that was reviewed by The Times. “So, after careful consideration, I am announcing that starting today, we are undergoing a significant change in our communications strategy. We are no longer airing ‘live TV’ programming.
- 6/26/2019
- by Variety Staff
- Variety Film + TV
The National Rifle Association has ended production of Nratv, the live broadcasting media arm it launched in 2016, the New York Times reported Tuesday.
The organization has also formally severed ties with Ackerman McQueen, the Oklahoma-based advertising agency that operated Nratv and has represented the NRA since the 1980s, according to the Times.
Nratv may continue to air previously recorded content on its website, but all live broadcasting will cease, and on-air personalities like Dana Loesch, who were technically employees of Ackerman McQueen, will no longer represent the NRA publicly, the Times reports.
Also Read: NRA TV Ripped for Turning 'Thomas and Friends' Characters Into Kkk Members
The NRA and Ackerman McQueen did not immediately respond to requests for comment from TheWrap.
The Times said Tuesday that Lapierre will announce the decision in an email to members Wednesday morning.
“Many members expressed concern about the messaging on Nratv becoming too far...
The organization has also formally severed ties with Ackerman McQueen, the Oklahoma-based advertising agency that operated Nratv and has represented the NRA since the 1980s, according to the Times.
Nratv may continue to air previously recorded content on its website, but all live broadcasting will cease, and on-air personalities like Dana Loesch, who were technically employees of Ackerman McQueen, will no longer represent the NRA publicly, the Times reports.
Also Read: NRA TV Ripped for Turning 'Thomas and Friends' Characters Into Kkk Members
The NRA and Ackerman McQueen did not immediately respond to requests for comment from TheWrap.
The Times said Tuesday that Lapierre will announce the decision in an email to members Wednesday morning.
“Many members expressed concern about the messaging on Nratv becoming too far...
- 6/26/2019
- by Ross A. Lincoln
- The Wrap
The National Rifle Association has shut down production at Nratv, amid concerns that the online news channel’s messaging had strayed from the organization’s core mission.
“Many members expressed concern about the messaging on Nratv becoming too far removed from our core mission: defending the Second Amendment,” NRA chief executive Wayne Lapierre said in a message to members, cited by the New York Times. “So, after careful consideration… we are undergoing a significant change in our communications strategy. We are no longer airing ‘live TV’ programming.”
The NRA has also cut ties with Ackerman McQueen, the advertising firm that...
“Many members expressed concern about the messaging on Nratv becoming too far removed from our core mission: defending the Second Amendment,” NRA chief executive Wayne Lapierre said in a message to members, cited by the New York Times. “So, after careful consideration… we are undergoing a significant change in our communications strategy. We are no longer airing ‘live TV’ programming.”
The NRA has also cut ties with Ackerman McQueen, the advertising firm that...
- 6/26/2019
- TVLine.com
The National Rifle Association has suspended its longtime head of political operations, Chris Cox, after filing a lawsuit in New York Supreme Court that fingers Cox as a participant in the failed April coup attempt against the gun lobby’s CEO, Wayne Lapierre.
Cox is a towering figure in the gun world. He has been the executive director of the NRA’s Institute for Legislative Action, the explicitly political arm of the gun lobby, since 2002, and according to the NRA’s latest IRS filing his pay package topped $1.1 million in...
Cox is a towering figure in the gun world. He has been the executive director of the NRA’s Institute for Legislative Action, the explicitly political arm of the gun lobby, since 2002, and according to the NRA’s latest IRS filing his pay package topped $1.1 million in...
- 6/21/2019
- by Tim Dickinson
- Rollingstone.com
The divorce papers have been filed. The breakup between the National Rifle Association and its longtime PR firm, Ackerman McQueen — the creator of Nratv — is nearly complete.
On Wednesday, Ackerman McQueen served the NRA with a “notice to terminate” its nearly 40-year business partnership with the gun group.
Ackerman McQueen has long crafted the NRA’s public image, whether tapping Soylent Green actor Charlton Heston as the gun group’s ceremonial president, crafting the NRA’s increasingly apocalyptic messaging or staging the its elaborate annual conventions. Following the 2016 launch of the NRA’s streaming service,...
On Wednesday, Ackerman McQueen served the NRA with a “notice to terminate” its nearly 40-year business partnership with the gun group.
Ackerman McQueen has long crafted the NRA’s public image, whether tapping Soylent Green actor Charlton Heston as the gun group’s ceremonial president, crafting the NRA’s increasingly apocalyptic messaging or staging the its elaborate annual conventions. Following the 2016 launch of the NRA’s streaming service,...
- 5/30/2019
- by Tim Dickinson
- Rollingstone.com
Ackerman McQueen is biting the hand that feeds it. The longtime PR firm for the National Rifle Association is counter-suing the gun group for a staggering $100 million, alleging the NRA is dishonestly attempting to sever business ties — for the benefit of the gun group’s top-dollar legal firm.
The PR firm’s suit was filed Thursday in Virginia state court, just a day after the NRA sued Ackerman McQueen for $40 million, accusing the firm of “fomenting” an attempted coup and leaking confidential documents. The counterclaim sheds new light on the...
The PR firm’s suit was filed Thursday in Virginia state court, just a day after the NRA sued Ackerman McQueen for $40 million, accusing the firm of “fomenting” an attempted coup and leaking confidential documents. The counterclaim sheds new light on the...
- 5/24/2019
- by Tim Dickinson
- Rollingstone.com
The National Rifle Association is accusing its longtime public relations firm of “fomenting” an “executive coup” attempt, and the gun group is suing the agency for $40 million in damages, alleging a “total breach of contract” in the wake of what it calls “misleading, defamatory” leaks of confidential documents.
The lawsuit, filed in Virginia state court on Wednesday, is the latest salvo in the battle between the NRA and Ackerman McQueen, which has long crafted the gun group’s public image, including launching the streaming service Nratv. Ackerman McQueen’s services...
The lawsuit, filed in Virginia state court on Wednesday, is the latest salvo in the battle between the NRA and Ackerman McQueen, which has long crafted the gun group’s public image, including launching the streaming service Nratv. Ackerman McQueen’s services...
- 5/23/2019
- by Tim Dickinson
- Rollingstone.com
Excessive spending at the National Rifle Association is “draining NRA cash at a mindboggling speed” and poses “an existential threat to the financial stability” of the gun group, according to slate of leaked documents that have spurred calls for the resignation of CEO Wayne Lapierre.
Posted anonymously online, the documents have surfaced amid an increasingly public feud among NRA leadership, the gun group’s PR firm, Ackerman McQueen, and the NRA’s outside legal firm, run by William Brewer, III. (For more context read: Wtf Is Happening at the NRA,...
Posted anonymously online, the documents have surfaced amid an increasingly public feud among NRA leadership, the gun group’s PR firm, Ackerman McQueen, and the NRA’s outside legal firm, run by William Brewer, III. (For more context read: Wtf Is Happening at the NRA,...
- 5/17/2019
- by Tim Dickinson
- Rollingstone.com
Former Congressman Allen West, a board member of the National Rifle Association, released an extraordinary statement Tuesday blasting a “cabal of cronyism” within the NRA and demanding the resignation of the organization’s longtime honcho, Wayne Lapierre.
“It sickens me to publicly make this statement,” West writes on his website, The Old School Patriot. Citing internal spending scandals that have recently spilled into public view (read: Wtf Is Happening at the NRA, Explained), West decries NRA brass for what he calls the “despicable spending of members’ money.”
West trains his fire on Lapierre,...
“It sickens me to publicly make this statement,” West writes on his website, The Old School Patriot. Citing internal spending scandals that have recently spilled into public view (read: Wtf Is Happening at the NRA, Explained), West decries NRA brass for what he calls the “despicable spending of members’ money.”
West trains his fire on Lapierre,...
- 5/15/2019
- by Tim Dickinson
- Rollingstone.com
Samantha Bee dissected the chaos, infighting and money woes consuming the National Rifle Association on Full Frontal Wednesday.
In recent weeks, a power struggle broke out between longtime NRA CEO Wayne Lapierre and recently ousted NRA president Oliver North (whose previous hits include the Iran-Contra affair). Lapierre has accused North of trying to blackmail him into resigning from his post, threatening to leak damaging information such as allegations against a staff member of sexual harassment and spending half-a-million dollars on clothes and travel. But as Bee pointed out, much of...
In recent weeks, a power struggle broke out between longtime NRA CEO Wayne Lapierre and recently ousted NRA president Oliver North (whose previous hits include the Iran-Contra affair). Lapierre has accused North of trying to blackmail him into resigning from his post, threatening to leak damaging information such as allegations against a staff member of sexual harassment and spending half-a-million dollars on clothes and travel. But as Bee pointed out, much of...
- 5/9/2019
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
…And then he ducks the guns.
Last column we discussed what happens to those criminals on Adventures of Superman who shoot at Superman only to have their bullets bounce off him. Bottom line, they get charged with some crimes. But that’s just for shooting at Superman. There are still two very important questions that remain unanswered.
First, why did the invulnerable Superman, who already had bullets bounce off of him, duck when the bad guys threw their guns at him? Actually, we need to answer a question before that one – hey, if airplanes can pre-board, I can pre-first – namely did Superman actually duck a thrown gun?
From my research, inextensive though it was, I can say it definitely did happen. Once. In the first season episode “The Mind Machine.”
Theories abound, as to why Superman ducked but the one I think the best is that in parts of said scene,...
Last column we discussed what happens to those criminals on Adventures of Superman who shoot at Superman only to have their bullets bounce off him. Bottom line, they get charged with some crimes. But that’s just for shooting at Superman. There are still two very important questions that remain unanswered.
First, why did the invulnerable Superman, who already had bullets bounce off of him, duck when the bad guys threw their guns at him? Actually, we need to answer a question before that one – hey, if airplanes can pre-board, I can pre-first – namely did Superman actually duck a thrown gun?
From my research, inextensive though it was, I can say it definitely did happen. Once. In the first season episode “The Mind Machine.”
Theories abound, as to why Superman ducked but the one I think the best is that in parts of said scene,...
- 5/6/2019
- by Bob Ingersoll
- Comicmix.com
Chaos broke out at the NRA’s annual convention in Indianapolis last week. The gun group’s figurehead president, Oliver North, backed by its longtime PR firm Ackerman McQueen, allegedly tried to oust the NRA’s powerful CEO, Wayne Lapierre. But Lapierre hit back — forcing North to step down, while winning unanimous reelection by the NRA board.
As this Game of Thrones-worthy infighting played out, New York Attorney General Letitia James announced she has opened an investigation into the NRA’s financial practices — amid public accusations that NRA executives...
As this Game of Thrones-worthy infighting played out, New York Attorney General Letitia James announced she has opened an investigation into the NRA’s financial practices — amid public accusations that NRA executives...
- 5/3/2019
- by Tim Dickinson and Andy Kroll
- Rollingstone.com
This past week, NRA President Oliver North threatened to ruin NRA CEO Wayne Lapierre, citing financial improprieties and an ongoing battle with the group’s PR firm, Ackerman McQueen, but his plan backfired and now North has been told he will not be renominated as the group’s president, the Wall Street Journal reported.
“Yesterday evening, I was forced to confront one of those defining choices — styled, in the parlance of extortionists — as an offer I couldn’t refuse,” Lapierre wrote in a Thursday letter to the NRA board. “I refused it.
“Yesterday evening, I was forced to confront one of those defining choices — styled, in the parlance of extortionists — as an offer I couldn’t refuse,” Lapierre wrote in a Thursday letter to the NRA board. “I refused it.
- 4/27/2019
- by Peter Wade
- Rollingstone.com
Wayne Lapierre, the Executive Vice President of the National Rifle Association, has written an extraordinary letter to the board of the NRA, accusing the organization’s ceremonial president, Col. Oliver North, of both seeking his ouster and threatening to share a “damaging letter” with the NRA board if Lapierre refused to resign.
In the letter, Lapierre links the ouster threat to the NRA’s longtime PR firm, Ackerman McQueen, which the NRA recently sued for not being transparent about its spending, including on North’s multi-million-dollar Nratv contract.
The letter...
In the letter, Lapierre links the ouster threat to the NRA’s longtime PR firm, Ackerman McQueen, which the NRA recently sued for not being transparent about its spending, including on North’s multi-million-dollar Nratv contract.
The letter...
- 4/27/2019
- by Tim Dickinson
- Rollingstone.com
An email exchange between an NRA official and a man who has called the Sandy Hook massacre “the biggest government illusion that’s ever been pulled off” is raising questions about whether the gun lobby encourages conspiracy theorists.
The emails — sent in the immediate aftermath of the 2018 school massacre in Parkland, Florida — surfaced during the discovery process from litigation by Sandy Hook parents against the InfoWars host Alex Jones, and have been published exclusively by HuffPost.
The official in question, Mark Richardson, is identified in NRA documents as a Training Counselor Program Coordinator.
The emails — sent in the immediate aftermath of the 2018 school massacre in Parkland, Florida — surfaced during the discovery process from litigation by Sandy Hook parents against the InfoWars host Alex Jones, and have been published exclusively by HuffPost.
The official in question, Mark Richardson, is identified in NRA documents as a Training Counselor Program Coordinator.
- 3/28/2019
- by Tim Dickinson
- Rollingstone.com
By the time Lee Brice took the stage in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, it would have been nearly impossible to tell that this early-February country music concert wasn’t sponsored by a beer company or a local promoter, but rather by the National Rifle Association.
While the concert — featuring Brice, Easton Corbin and Tyler Farr — was the culminating event of the Great American Outdoor Show, an NRA-backed annual gear and firearm expo that bills itself as “the largest outdoor show in the world,” the presence of the NRA — and its country-music...
While the concert — featuring Brice, Easton Corbin and Tyler Farr — was the culminating event of the Great American Outdoor Show, an NRA-backed annual gear and firearm expo that bills itself as “the largest outdoor show in the world,” the presence of the NRA — and its country-music...
- 2/19/2019
- by Jonathan Bernstein
- Rollingstone.com
As the scandal surrounding the Russian infiltration of the NRA has grown, the gun group has maintained a steely silence. The NRA has not responded to perhaps a dozen inquiries about its Russian ties from Rolling Stone alone. But an outside lawyer for the gun group and a past president of the NRA have now spoken to the New York Times for the paper’s new dispatch on the scandal.
The NRA is attempting to create distance between CEO Wayne Lapierre and the NRA officers who traveled to Moscow in...
The NRA is attempting to create distance between CEO Wayne Lapierre and the NRA officers who traveled to Moscow in...
- 1/29/2019
- by Tim Dickinson
- Rollingstone.com
On Thursday in federal court in Washington, D.C., the jailed Russian national Maria Butina pleaded guilty to conspiring against the United States under the direction of a Russian official.
According to the feds, Butina’s partners in this conspiracy included the official (widely identified as the former Russian senator and central banker Alexander Torshin) and Person 1, known to be Butina’s boyfriend and longtime Gop operative Paul Erickson.
The “Statement of Offense” released by the court reads in part: “With U.S. Person 1’s assistance and subject to Russian Official’s direction,...
According to the feds, Butina’s partners in this conspiracy included the official (widely identified as the former Russian senator and central banker Alexander Torshin) and Person 1, known to be Butina’s boyfriend and longtime Gop operative Paul Erickson.
The “Statement of Offense” released by the court reads in part: “With U.S. Person 1’s assistance and subject to Russian Official’s direction,...
- 12/13/2018
- by Tim Dickinson
- Rollingstone.com
Emantic Fitzgerald Bradford, Jr., was a good guy, if you believe his mama.
“Emantic was that person who people went to when they needed someone to talk to,” April Pipkins tells Rolling Stone on Monday, four days after her son, known as “Ej,” was shot to death by a police officer in Hoover, a suburb of Birmingham, Alabama. He was only 21-years-old. “It was just heartbreaking, because I’ve lost my best friend also. I know that, if anything, he was trying to help people. That was his character. That’s how I raised him.
“Emantic was that person who people went to when they needed someone to talk to,” April Pipkins tells Rolling Stone on Monday, four days after her son, known as “Ej,” was shot to death by a police officer in Hoover, a suburb of Birmingham, Alabama. He was only 21-years-old. “It was just heartbreaking, because I’ve lost my best friend also. I know that, if anything, he was trying to help people. That was his character. That’s how I raised him.
- 11/27/2018
- by Jamil Smith
- Rollingstone.com
Michelle Wolf mocked the NRA’s “Good Guy With a Gun” strategy in a work safety video for her Netflix show “The Break,” that imagines what would happen if a civilian with no weapons training decided to go all “Die Hard.”
The video (sarcastically) shows how “easy” it is for someone with little-to-no experience with a gun to save the day in a mass shooting situation. “All you have to do is fire your gun with goodness in your heart, and the bullets will hit only the bad guys.”
The video is mocking NRA executive VP Wayne Lapierre’s often-stated stance that “the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is with a good guy with a gun.” The argument goes that bad guys will always find a way to get firearms, so it takes a “good guy” with a gun of his own to stop them.
The video (sarcastically) shows how “easy” it is for someone with little-to-no experience with a gun to save the day in a mass shooting situation. “All you have to do is fire your gun with goodness in your heart, and the bullets will hit only the bad guys.”
The video is mocking NRA executive VP Wayne Lapierre’s often-stated stance that “the only way to stop a bad guy with a gun is with a good guy with a gun.” The argument goes that bad guys will always find a way to get firearms, so it takes a “good guy” with a gun of his own to stop them.
- 7/5/2018
- by Tim Baysinger
- The Wrap
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