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Bang for the Buck
A New York jury ordered the gun group’s former CEO to pay more than $4.3 million in damages.
The NRA corruption trial forced its former CEO to tell the truth about himself, as the curtain dropped on a three-decade act.
The first day of deliberations was marked by a request for all relevant evidence and one complaint about the pace of discussions.
The previously unreported material shows that a grand jury subpoenaed the gun group’s chief financial officer in 2021.
We’re sharing transcripts from the trial to serve the public interest. They include the opening statements from the New York Attorney General’s Office and lawyers for the individual defendants.
In its ongoing corruption trial, the gun group is straining to distance itself from the man who led it for more than three decades.
A timeline of the reporting and investigations since The Trace exposed self-dealing at the nonprofit nearly five years ago.
Secret audio obtained by The Trace and ProPublica reveals executives from the gun group and its PR firm hatching a plan that would conceal payments for fancy hotels, limousines, and other luxury expenses for a decade.
The organization, which LaPierre transformed into a feared political machine, is due in court January 8, three and a half years after New York Attorney General Letitia James filed a lawsuit against it.
On January 8, a jury is expected to begin hearing New York Attorney General Letitia James’s case, which accuses top NRA officials of using the nonprofit as a “personal piggy bank.”
Gun Safety
The group is slowly abandoning its original mission to teach Americans how to handle guns. Spending on these programs has dropped 77 percent in less than a decade.
Bulletin
“It’s hard not to look at this sealed action in Texas as quixotic.”
No stranger to legal disputes, the National Rifle Association is still fighting with Ackerman McQueen.
National Rifle Association
Court filings show the sum paid by the gun group in its acrimonious split with Ackerman McQueen.
New financial documents detail the severe erosion of the gun group's membership.