Wayne LaPierre spending spree

[Rogue Valley]

Leaked documents show more than $500,000 in alleged spending by NRA CEO

Wayne LaPierre expensed $39,000 in clothes in one day plus $18,300 for a car and driver.

National Rifle Asso. CEO Wayne LaPierre.

5/11/19
Documents published online reportedly show more than $542,000 that the National Rifle Association's (NRA) public relations firm alleges the organization's CEO, Wayne LaPierre, billed to it, including $39,000 for shopping at a clothing store in one day, $18,300 for a car and driver in Europe, and $13,800 in rent payments for an intern. The anonymously posted expense reports are seemingly genuine, a source familiar with the original documents told The Wall Street Journal. The expenses also allegedly include more than $200,000 in “Air Transportation” costs in less than a month, partially connected to a Christmastime Bahamas visit by LaPierre, the Journal reported. The documents include letters that the PR firm, Ackerman McQueen, reportedly wrote to LaPierre. “We need to address your wardrobe you required us to provide, specifically purchases at the Zegna store in Beverly Hills, CA,” one letter reportedly said, including an attached list of expenses from 2004 to 2017 worth $274,695.03.

The letters were published as the gun rights organization faces both internal strife and external inquiries. Last month, then-NRA President Oliver North announced he was leaving the group after The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal reported problems between him and LaPierre. The newspapers uncovered a letter LaPierre reportedly wrote to the NRA's board accusing North of extorting him over financial wrongdoing allegations. New York's attorney general last month launched an investigation into the NRA's tax-exempt status. Senate Democrats have also sent letters to North, LaPierre and Ackerman McQueen CEO Revan McQueen requesting documents related to "financial impropriety" reportedly alleged by North.

The NRA's Wayne LaPierre is living like a Russian oligarch .... and on your membership dime folks, even though the organization is drowning in legal fees......

Related: Leaked NRA Documents Reveal Gun Group Drowning In Legal Fees

 

[WCH]

Pathetic that someone leaked documents and a pathetic way to attack the NRA.

 

[Greenbeard]

Rightwing rank-and-file donors seem eminently bilk-able. Magnets for grifters.

 

[Hari Seldon]

Leaked documents show more than $500,000 in alleged spending by NRA CEO

Wayne LaPierre expensed $39,000 in clothes in one day plus $18,300 for a car and driver.

National Rifle Asso. CEO Wayne LaPierre.



The NRA's Wayne LaPierre is living like a Russian oligarch .... and on your membership dime folks, even though the organization is drowning in legal fees......

Related: Leaked NRA Documents Reveal Gun Group Drowning In Legal Fees

Its just like the preachers. Just keep giving them money. Suckers!!

 

[Risky Thicket]

Pathetic that someone leaked documents and a pathetic way to attack the NRA.

Pathetic that you excuse inexcusable behavior, but not at all surprising.

 

[WCH]

Pathetic that you excuse inexcusable behavior, but not at all surprising.

WTH should I care? Not a member and it's not tax funded.



My 2nd amend. rights are not given by NRA but, by my Creator. My right to self defense will not tip either way because of how much the NRA spends or how much traitors bitch.

 

[OrphanSlug]

This is just the nature of aristocracy and greed, Wayne LaPierre has made an awful lot of money by frightening people with rhetoric in combination with questionable financial dealings on the side.

Between all these shenanigans with the NRA's ad agency Ackerman McQueen and these legal bills stacking up, the NRA will throw the bill at their membership with renewed rounds of scare tactics fundraising much to the benefit of the few.

Oh wait... they are already doing that.

 

[haymarket]

LaPierre is a pig at the trough.

 

[Risky Thicket]

WTH should I care? Not a member and it's not tax funded.



My 2nd amend. rights are not given by NRA but, by my Creator. My right to self defense will not tip either way because of how much the NRA spends or how much traitors bitch.

Wrong. The Constitution gives you the right to own a firearm.

 

[beefheart]

Rightwing rank-and-file donors seem eminently bilk-able. Magnets for grifters.

Yup, all them ammosexual patriots just gave their money so it could be spent on fancy suits and hotel rooms.

Suckers!

 

[jaeger19]

Leaked documents show more than $500,000 in alleged spending by NRA CEO

Wayne LaPierre expensed $39,000 in clothes in one day plus $18,300 for a car and driver.

National Rifle Asso. CEO Wayne LaPierre.



The NRA's Wayne LaPierre is living like a Russian oligarch .... and on your membership dime folks, even though the organization is drowning in legal fees......

Related: Leaked NRA Documents Reveal Gun Group Drowning In Legal Fees

Hmmm... now according to your article:

ocuments published online reportedly show more than $542,000 that the National Rifle Association's (NRA) public relations firm alleges the organization's CEO, Wayne LaPierre, billed to it, including $39,000 for shopping at a clothing store in one day, $18,300 for a car and driver in Europe, and $13,800 in rent payments for an intern. The anonymously posted expense reports are seemingly genuine, a source familiar with the original documents told The Wall Street Journal. The expenses also allegedly include more than $200,000 in “Air Transportation” costs in less than a month, partially connected to a Christmastime Bahamas visit by LaPierre, the Journal reported. The documents include letters that the PR firm, Ackerman McQueen, reportedly wrote to LaPierre. “We need to address your wardrobe you required us to provide, specifically purchases at the Zegna store in Beverly Hills, CA,” one letter reportedly said, including an attached list of expenses from 2004 to 2017 worth $274,695.03.

Just to point out... that the overbilling was TO THE PR firm that the NRA uses.. not actually overbilling NRA members.

Now..that may indicated some malfeasance on the part of Ackerman and LA pierre. It might indicated that Ackerman was bribing La Pierre...so they could continue to be the NRA's pr firm (and perhaps in doing so overbill the NRA).

but lets be accurate here folks.. .according to the article..Pierre was not overbilling the NRA.

 

[RaleBulgarian]

Pathetic that someone leaked documents and a pathetic way to attack the NRA.

Yet no comment about La Pierre’s spending?

 

[Rogue Valley]

Just to point out... that the overbilling was TO THE PR firm that the NRA uses.. not actually overbilling NRA members.

And who do you suppose pays the PR firm that the NRA uses?

 

[RaleBulgarian]

My 2nd amend. rights are not given by NRA but, by my Creator.

 

[Rexedgar]

Pathetic that someone leaked documents and a pathetic way to attack the NRA.

What’s that old saw? Karma is a *****!

 

[jaeger19]

And who do you suppose pays the PR firm that the NRA uses?

The NRA of course. and the NRA is currently in a lawsuit with the PR firm over the firm overcharging. So.. if may be the PR firm is trying to divert attention from its overcharges to the NRA.

But as the article points out..it was charges to the PR firm.. not to the NRA that LA pierre is accused of overdoing.

 

[Rogue Valley]

The NRA of course. and the NRA is currently in a lawsuit with the PR firm over the firm overcharging. So.. if may be the PR firm is trying to divert attention from its overcharges to the NRA.

But as the article points out..it was charges to the PR firm.. not to the NRA that LA pierre is accused of overdoing.

Where in the article is the NRA suing the PR firm? The PR firm isn't going to front the NRA CEO $542,000 out of the kindness of its heart.

Either it will be recompensed by the NRA, or the NRA will have another lawsuit on its hands.

And where does the NRA obtain its operating funds? From membership dues and donations. From people right here on this board.

The NRA is on the verge of being declared insolvent. La Pierre may as well go on a spending spree for himself with NRA free money.

And I notice you altogether avoided the NRA's $24 million debt for legal fees. Is the PR firm on the hook for that also?

 

[apdst]

Pathetic that you excuse inexcusable behavior, but not at all surprising.

Even more pathetic is when big gov Leftists bitch-n-whine about what a private orginization does.

 

[apdst]

This is just the nature of aristocracy and greed, Wayne LaPierre has made an awful lot of money by frightening people with rhetoric in combination with questionable financial dealings on the side.

Between all these shenanigans with the NRA's ad agency Ackerman McQueen and these legal bills stacking up, the NRA will throw the bill at their membership with renewed rounds of scare tactics fundraising much to the benefit of the few.

Oh wait... they are already doing that.

They're a non-profit orginization. So, of course the members pay the bills.

 

[apdst]

Wrong. The Constitution gives you the right to own a firearm.

That's ain't what the Founders said.

 

[apdst]

What’s that old saw? Karma is a *****!

How is this "karma"?

 

[Rexedgar]

How is this "karma"?

Not like the NRA hasn’t attacked their detractors.


One example of many: The NRA's video channel is a hotbed of online hostility

 

[apdst]

Not like the NRA hasn’t attacked their detractors.


One example of many: The NRA's video channel is a hotbed of online hostility

You mean people who attack our civil rights?

I didn't think you were so anti-2A.

 

[jaeger19]

Where in the article is the NRA suing the PR firm? The PR firm isn't going to front the NRA CEO $542,000 out of the kindness of its heart.

Either it will be recompensed by the NRA, or the NRA will have another lawsuit on its hands.

And where does the NRA obtain its operating funds? From membership dues and donations. From people right here on this board.

The NRA is on the verge of being declared insolvent. La Pierre may as well go on a spending spree for himself with NRA free money.

And I notice you altogether avoided the NRA's $24 million debt for legal fees. Is the PR firm on the hook for that also?

I happen to know that the NRA is suing its PR firm:

NRA Files Suit Against Ad Agency in Rift With Key Partner - WSJ

So this could be damage control by the pr firm. Or a way to try and put pressure on the NRA to drop the lawsuit.

Either it will be recompensed by the NRA, or the NRA will have another lawsuit on its hands.

No..because the issue would be with the PR firm and Lapierre.. not with the NRA as an organization. In fact.. it would be questionable why the PR firm would be reimbursing expenses to La Pierre in the first place. That might be indicative of the PR firm trying to buy favor with La Pierre to disguise the PR firm overbilling the NRA.

The NRA is on the verge of being declared insolvent.

Hardly.

nd I notice you altogether avoided the NRA's $24 million debt for legal fees. Is the PR firm on the hook for that also?

It may be depending on the outcome of the lawsuit the NRA has with the PR firm for its overbilling.

 

[Rexedgar]

You mean people who attack our civil rights?

I didn't think you were so anti-2A.

I think you are confusing “civil rights” and “civil liberties.” I’m not anti 2A, I’m anti NRA.