New York Attorney General Letitia James sued the NRA in an effort to dissolve the gun-rights group “for years of self-dealing and illegal conduct.”
From her Thursday announcement:
New York Attorney General Letitia James today filed a lawsuit seeking to dissolve the National Rifle Association (NRA), the largest and most influential pro-gun organization in the nation. Attorney General James charges the organization with illegal conduct because of their diversion of millions of dollars away from the charitable mission of the organization for personal use by senior leadership, awarding contracts to the financial gain of close associates and family, and appearing to dole out lucrative no-show contracts to former employees in order to buy their silence and continued loyalty.
The NRA is fighting back by submitting its own civil suit against state officials.
The NRA’s lawsuit was filed federal court of New York and alleges Attorney General Letitia James “made the political prosecution of the NRA a central campaign theme” when she was running for the AG’s office in 2018, and has not treated the association fairly since.
“Despite hopes that playing by the rules would procure a just outcome, the NRA has not been treated fairly by James’s office,” the 19-page suit states. “The New York Democratic Party political machine seeks to harass, defund, and dismantle the NRA because of what it believes and what it says.”
White House bureau chief Steve Herman slammed the AG’s suit as a “baseless, premeditated attack.”
Lawsuits a "baseless, premeditated attack on our organization" and the Constitutional right to keep and bear arms, responds @NRA.
— Steve Herman (@W7VOA) August 6, 2020
Source: Free Beacon, Fox News, NY.gov
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