NRA dodges government monitor in corruption case but must bar former exec Wayne LaPierre, New York court rules

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NRA dodges government monitor in *********** case but must bar former exec Wayne LaPierre, New York court rules

The National Rifle Association (NRA), the once powerful **** owners’ lobbying group, will not be overseen by a government monitor, but must bar former leader

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from serving at the organization for a decade, a New York court ruled on Monday as part of a long-running *********** case.

Appointing a monitor to regulate the group’s finances and governing procedures would be  “time-consuming, disruptive and will impose significant costs on the NRA without corresponding benefits,” and could risk “speech-chilling government intrusion” on a group that’s long opposed government regulation, judge Joel Cohen of the Manhattan Supreme Court

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in his ruling.

“At this point in time, we’re relieved that we’re where we are in the process,” Doug Hamlin, the recently elected head of the group,

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after the decision.

“We are committed to transparency and good governance and being good stewards of our membership fees, and we’re going to prove it,” he added.

During the trial, LaPierre compared appointing a monitor to “putting a ****** straight through the heart of the organization and twisting it.”

In 2020, New York Attorney General Leticia James sued the group, long an influential power-broker for the *********** Party, after leaks revealed executives like LaPierre spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on luxury items, travel, and high-end clothes.

During the first phase of the trial in February, LaPierre,

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, was

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for *********** alongside another top executive and was ordered to return more than $5m in improperly used funds to the NRA.

LaPierre, long the group’s most visible public spokesperson, has

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repaid the NRA more than $1m.

The NRA

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it has no plans to rehire him.

Since the *********** allegations surfaced, the NRA has

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lost 1.3m members.

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