Employing the defense strategy unsuccessfully used by both Donald Trump and Rudy Giuliani in recent court appearances, outgoing NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre admitted in testimony that he improperly used association funds to pay for family travel and that he should not have taken multiple vacations paid for by NRA vendors, the Associated Press reports.
New York Attorney General Letitia James sued LaPierre and three other current or former NRA executives, claiming that there was widespread self-dealing and financial abuse by the executives for the non-profit association. For example, LaPierre admitted to using $1,000 of NRA funds to buy his wife a designer handbag, and he said he accepted more than half a million dollars worth of private jet flights, including some for flights that he was not on, but instead arranged for family members.