Wayne LaPierre's Bad Day in Court

[marmar]

(Salon) National Rifle Association head Wayne LaPierre, on the virtual witness stand during the third day of the group's highly anticipated bankruptcy trial in Texas, was peppered with a harsh line of questioning, including one about a $60,000 invoice marked "Russia."

In Wednesday's testimony, the NRA's longtime executive vice president "conceded that he did not inform several senior NRA officials that he would file his bankruptcy petition before he did so, including a board member who would have been his successor," Law & Crime reported. "LaPierre also testified that he did not inform board members about the establishment of a company Sea Girt, LLC, which he formed in Texas for the purpose of filing for bankruptcy."

LaPierre was also asked about his use of a yacht owned by Hollywood producer Stanton McKenzie, which LaPierre admitted to using for vacations in the Bahamas, while not making clear in the group's paperwork that the trips could be construed as a conflict of interest. LaPierre was asked if he offered to pay for using the yacht and responded, "I did not," according to Law & Crime.

LaPierre testified on Wednesday that he also took a couple of trips on another yacht called the Grand Illusions, and he acknowledged that McKenzie picked up the tab on his stay at an Atlantis resort. Before the COVID-19 era, LaPierre testified, he flew out to Los Angeles to meet up with McKenzie at Beverly Hills and staying at a hotel there paid for by the producer. The NRA's ex-longtime PR firm Ackerman McQueen picked up the tab on nearly $300,000 for LaPierre's Italian suits at Zegna in Beverly Hills, which LaPierre defended as an expenditure the firm recommended for his television appearances.

This yacht was the same yacht which in an earlier deposition LaPierre admitted to using as a getaway following mass shootings in the U.S. such as the Sandy Hook massacre in Connecticut in 2012. .............(more)

https://www.salon.com/2021/04/08/nra-chief-wayne-lapierre-faces-tough-questions-in-court--russia-expense-remains-a-mystery/

[magicarpet]

1. LaPierre living large on a nonprofit piggy bank.

$300,000 for Beverly Hills men's suits private aircraft, and 150 foot yachts.

Wayne found himself a nice fat wallet.

[MyOwnPeace]

2. Yada, yada, yada.............

the NRA idiots are going to turn on him just like all of the MAGATs have not turned on IQ45.

I'm liking the idea of BunkerBoy NOT being on Twitter - it has cost him a platform and he's growing in the "who cares?" column.

Let's do the same for LaPierre - out of sight, out of mind......

[mucifer]

3. sounds reasonable

[panader0]

4. Hey NRA members, how do you like the way your fees and donations are being spent?

[Comfortably_Numb]

5. Wayne better hope he doesn't run into a grifted NRA nut with a gun...

Punk ass charlatan....

[bluestarone]

6. Will Oliver North

Be a witness?

[dchill]

7. Too bad Wayne has to share the sludgelight...

...with Gaetz and Greenberg and Chauvin.

[UpInArms]

8. Related: NRA Execs' Hollywood Sugar Daddy Is Entangled With a Russian Oligarch

The Hollywood producer at the center of the corruption case against the National Rifle Association has had a years-long financial, creative, and apparently political relationship with a tycoon from the former Soviet Union, The Daily Beast has discovered.

Multiple reports have identified Associated Television International (ATI) president David Stanton, also known as David McKenzie, as the anonymous figure who lavished gifts and trips on top NRA officials, as described in a lawsuit New York Attorney General Letitia James brought earlier this month. But unreported until now are Stanton’s dealings in Eastern Europe and the Caucasus, which date to the late 1990s and have intensified in recent years with a series of joint ventures with a Russian oligarch named Sergey Sarkisov.


For his various overseas projects, Stanton has enlisted the assistance of former KGB officials, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, and influential politicians tied to President Vladimir Putin. With Sarkisov, Stanton inserted himself into one of the most contentious disputes in the Russian “near abroad”.

This makes Stanton the most recently revealed in a string of figures tied to elites in both the NRA and in the former Soviet Union. A 2015 trip brought a delegation from the group into contact with a sanctioned deputy to Russian President Vladimir Putin, while The Daily Beast uncovered emails showing the organization’s then-head hoped to meet with the autocrat himself. A 2019 U.S. intelligence report determined that the pair that organized the trip—Russian central bank official Alexander Torshin and confessed Russian agent Maria Butina—did so with the Kremlin’s blessing.

... much much more at link below ...

https://www.thedailybeast.com/nra-linked-producer-david-stanton-is-entangled-with-russian-oligarch-sergey-sarkisov

[Guilded Lilly]

9. It wasn't a bad enough day. Take him down! n/t

[Marie Marie]

10. I know, right? I am assuming that the families of all those killed in

the recent (and past) mass shootings are having really bad days. Lock this charlatan up and throw away the key.

[Guilded Lilly]

12. Melt down the key!!

[ShazamIam]

11. LaPierre: Hey back off guys, I'm just a normal whore to the conservative billionaires, I deserve my

upkeep and comfort for all the help I have given the Republican election campaigns.