New York AG Seeks To Dismantle NRA Following Fraud Discovery Within Organization

Via America's Lawyer: Legal journalist Mollye Barrows joins Mike Papantonio to break down the New York attorney general’s lawsuit against the NRA, seeking to dissolve the gun group after an investigation revealed sweeping financial fraud.

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Following an investigation that revealed the national rifle association is ripe with fraud, New York's attorney general is now seeking to completely dissolve the organization as a whole. Legal journalist Mollye Barrows is with me now to talk about it. I took a look at this, it's, it's complicated in that she's attacking their nonprofit status. Okay. If she succeeds, you understand what's going to happen is they're going to say well, okay. What about the Catholic church? Same deal.

Right.

What about these hospitals that call themselves nonprofit?

Right.

And there's all kinds of hinky stuff going on. What about churches in general? You see.

Right. Oh I, yeah. Church of Scientology.

So, so the nonprofit issue is abused across the board.

I agree.

No question. So first of all, she's got real problems with this case, but it's a, it's a creative place to begin. What's your take?

It's interesting because she was successful in doing this with Trump university. She basically dissolved that organization when they wouldn't come clean with how they were spending their money or they were misappropriating funds. So it looks like she's trying to take the same angle here and this is just the latest in a long line of issues with the NRA. So maybe she's attacking while there's blood in the water. She's not the only AG looking into them. You've got Washington, DC looking into them. You had the probe that the Senate looked into a year and a half, basically a year and a half probe that wrapped up last year. And they found, that was when they found the, you know, connections with the Russian operatives, if you will, or the nationals, Maria Buitoni and the other guy was Alexander something or another, but, at any rate, so they've had a long list of problems lately and legal issues as well of costing like a hundred million dollars. There was a secret recording that was leaked. So I think maybe she just sees an opportunity to take down one of the most powerful lobby groups that has kept States from being able to pass gun control laws that are significant in any way, shape or form.

Okay. So the, the, the complaints in her complaint is that there, there's signs of plane flights that were done, jets being used for.

Yes.

For, for executives.

Misappropriation of money. Not, not filing properly, how they were spending their money and.

Trip to Africa.

Right.

Private trip, trip to Africa that was unexplained. I think you, you had the, the CEO's $17 million to, to, to the CEO saying $17 million is what I want to put aside for my exit package.

Right. He didn't even get it approved by the board, Wayne LaPierre.

Okay. Now here's what's so startling about this. If you take these same facts and you apply them to a lot of nonprofits, you're going to find the same result. So the question then becomes, is this the new, is this the new lawsuit? Is this the, is this what finally is used to go after the Catholic church where they're spending gazillion dollars because of abuse of children.

Right.

You know, here's, here's what I find interesting about this. The Republicans are loving this.

Absolutely.

Did you know that?

It gives them a lots of fodder.

Yeah.

You're attacking our second amendment rights. The NRA is equivalent to God. Oh my Lord. We're never gonna be able to defend ourselves, et cetera, et cetera.

Yeah. Ann Richards, was a governor of Texas ran against Bush and when, when the smoke cleared and Bush beat her, overwhelmingly the thing that brought the folks out to vote against Ann Richards was, was the gun issue.

Right.

And that's what the GOP is counting on with this. And I think they've even talked to Letitia James and said, look, can't you wait?

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