After a jury found his mismanagement and malfeasance cost the organization more than $5 million, Wayne LaPierre will not be allowed to work with the National Rifle Association for the next ten years, a New York state Supreme Court judge ruled, NBC News reports.
In February, a jury found LaPierre liable for diverting millions of NRA dollars to pay for his personal expenses from house expenses to luxury vacations, and he was ordered to repay $4 million on top of around a million dollars he had already repaid. New York Attorney General Letitia James sought to have LaPierre banned from non-profit leadership permanently, but the judge ruled a ten-year ban for the 74-year-old was sufficient.
The decision removed LaPierre from the NRA’s leadership for the first time since 1977. “As a result of this case, Wayne LaPierre will be banned from the NRA for 10 years for spearheading this fraud, and the court called for additional proposed reforms to the NRA. After years of corruption, the NRA and its senior leaders are finally being held accountable,” James said in a statement.