If you take into account all the death, pain and suffering this man has brought to our society (and beyond) just to profit gun manufacturers and marketers even Death by a Thousand Cuts is too good for this SOB.
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Add salt to the cuts.
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Victimless crime, but it still needs to be deterred.
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Well, Mega Church parishioners don’t have a problem with that. Preachers openly flaunt their luxury cars and private jets and then ask for more money.
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But the security department had a policy about it – surely no one could object to that? (And surely no one could notice that the security department was under the supervision of the guy who benefited from its supposed policy.)
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“Security” seems to be a common excuse for LaPierre.
In May 2018 then-NRA Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer Wilson H. Phillips Jr. signed an agreement saying the NRA would contribute $6.5 million for 99% ownership of a company formed to buy a Dallas mansion for LaPierre.
When caught, the NRA and Ackerman McQueen told the Wall Street Journal that the planning to buy the home started in the wake of the Parkland, Florida, mass shooting, when LaPierre had “concerns about his safety”.
The deal did fall through.
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The NRA makes only one exception to their policy of guns should be everywhere: their National Convention.
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It is fine with me. None of that is my money.
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And the fire ants.
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This is called money laundering.
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Was it a valid reason though? It could be, security can be a valid reason to use chartered flights and other measures that increase costs…the extreme example is the president of course. If there were real, viable threats against LaPierre, then the NRA would have been required to take steps to protect him. But, doing so would have been easily justifiable and there would be a paper trail, and they would have been able to lay it out on their financial documents and not hidden information. The fact they did that is in line with the apparently real reason, that LaPierre didn’t want to interact with people who might confront him about guns.
The same goes for these other financial deals, if there’s nothing to hide then you don’t create a credit card account with some other company that submits whitewashed invoices. It’s obvious that they were riding high on the donations and hiding the information from regulators and donors, hopefully they are punished for it. It won’t change the politics though, the fact is the NRA just did what all the other right wing groups do, grifted off of true believers. It’s not just Trump, and he’s an amateur, some of these groups (including megachurches) have been doing it for decades…and they get away with it because right wingers never seem to learn or accept they are being screwed, or blame it on liberals.
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They were still in the stage where they didn’t think that doing it all in public and daring people to disagree was even more profitable than doing it quietly.
(Oh, and sorry for leaving off the /s)
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The genitals in honey is probably one of the more expensive services at the Beverly Hills Hotel.
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I’m assuming Brewer is representing the NRA?
If James’ office didn’t know about the audio tape, does that mean the NRA didn’t fully comply with her subpoenas? Could the late emergence of the tape create new and different legal peril for the NRA?
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Take the win.
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Yep, but more accurately stated is that he glommed himself onto Wayne LaPierre in order to bleed his deep-pocketed organization with a bunch of daily time entries that read “12.0: Attention to file.”
Glomming onto rich guys is what he does, preferably with companies they control to foot the bill.
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ETA: Maybe, but there’s no reporting on where this tape came from. I would not jump to any conclusions.
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My jump to conclusion: someone from the PR firm didn’t agree with what was going on and recorded it to cover their ass when things went sideways.
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Yeah, that’s the clear implication. And FWIW, the NRA and Ackerman McQueen have been at war for a number of years now after the NRA’s revenue streams started drying up.
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