On August 6, 2019, David Dell’Aquila and others filed a civil class action lawsuit against Wayne LaPierre, the NRA Foundation, and the Brewer law firm for fraud by soliciting donations for specific purposes and then spending them for other purposes, specifically benefiting LaPierre and others.
Over the next five years, the complaint was amended twice. In its latest form, the defendants are the NRA and Wayne LaPierre. The NRA Foundation’s advertising agency Ackerman McQueen is accused of fraud. The plaintiffs class are those who donated to the NRA from 2015 to the present. CEO LaPierre is accused of being at the center of the fraudulent scheme. A number of alleged improper personal expenditures are specified in the amended complaint. For example:
LaPierre repeatedly approved private flights for his wife and extended family when he was not a passenger. In total, these lavish private flights cost over one million dollars and were neither authorized by the NRA board nor were in any way related to advancing the NRA’s mission.
LaPierre and his family repeatedly took extravagant yachting trips in the Bahamas and trips to Europe, financed by an NRA contractor, but LaPierre repeatedly failed to disclose these gifts. The details of these gifts were detailed in a recent expert report filed in the NYAG litigation—revealing that LaPierre paid approximately $100 million of the NRA’s money to the contractor, MMP Entities (an Ackerman affiliate), in exchange for lavish personal benefits.
The NRA reimbursed LaPierre more than $1.2 million dollars for personal expenses, including Christmas gifts, airfare and lodging for his extended family, membership in a golf club, and travel to and from film shoots. In addition, several million dollars each year were allocated to LaPierre’s personal security, which included extravagant purchases such as an armored vehicle.
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