CPAC with Bannon: Rep. Elise Stefanik: "One Person Can Make A Difference When You Have The American People Behind You". Elise got rid of Liz Cheney, she tells the story of how she did it
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NRA and org’s longtime leader Wayne LaPierre found liable in lawsuit over lavish spending, ordered to pay $4.3M
AP. Feb. 23, 2024, 6:27 p.m. ET
The National Rifle Association and its former longtime leader were found liable Friday in a lawsuit centered on the organization’s lavish spending.
The New York jury found that Wayne LaPierre, who was the NRA’s CEO for three decades, misspent millions of dollars of the group’s money on pricey perks, and it ordered him to repay the group $4,351,231.
Jurors also found that the NRA omitted or misrepresented information in its tax filings and violated New York law by failing to adopt a whistleblower policy.
LaPierre, 74, sat stone-faced in the front row of the courtroom as the verdict was read aloud.
The jury actually found him liable for $5.4 million, but it determined he’d already paid back a little over a million.
The verdict is a win for New York Attorney General Letitia James, a Democrat who campaigned on investigating the NRA’s not-for-profit status.
It is the latest blow to the powerful group, which in recent years has been beset by financial troubles and dwindling membership.
LaPierre, its longtime face, announced his resignation on the eve of the trial.
NRA general counsel John Frazer and retired finance chief Wilson Phillips were also defendants in the case.
Phillips was ordered to pay $2 million in damages to the NRA. Frazer, meanwhile, was found to have violated his duties, but was not ordered to pay any money.
The penalties paid by LaPierre and Phillips will go back to the NRA, which was portrayed in the case both as a defendant that lacked internal controls to prevent misspending and as a victim of that same misconduct.
James also wants the three men to be banned from serving in leadership positionsat any charitable organizations that conduct business in New York.
A judge will decide that question during the next phase of the state Supreme Court trial.
Another former NRA executive turned whistleblower, Joshua Powell, settled with the state last month, agreeing to testify at the trial, pay the NRA $100,000 and forgo further involvement with nonprofits.
James sued the NRA and its executives in 2020 under her authority to investigate not-for-profits registered in the state.
She originally sought to have the entire organization dissolved, but Manhattan Judge Joel M. Cohen ruled in 2022 that the allegations did not warrant a “corporate death penalty.”
The trial, which began last month, cast a spotlight on the leadership, organizational culture and finances of the powerful lobbying group, which was founded more than 150 years ago in New York City to promote rifle skills and grew into a political juggernaut that influenced federal law and presidential elections.
Before he stepped down, LaPierre, had led the NRA’s day-to-day operations since 1991, acting as its face and becoming one of the country’s most influential figures in shaping gun policy.
During the trial, state lawyers argued that he dodged financial disclosure requirements while treating the NRA as his personal piggy bank, liberally dipping into its coffers for African safaris and other questionable expenditures.
His lawyer cast the trial as a political witch hunt by James….
In 2021, it filed for bankruptcy and sought to incorporate in Texas instead of New York, but a judge rejected the move, saying it was an attempt to duck James’ lawsuit.
Despite its recent woes, the NRA remains a political force. Republican presidential hopefuls flocked to its annual convention last yearand former President Donald Trump spoke at an NRA event earlier this month — his eighth speech to the association, it said.
https://nypost.com/2024/02/23/us-news/national-rifle-association-orgs-longtime-leader-wayne-lapierre-found-liable-in-lawsuit-over-lavish-spending/
Tish James and other Trump persecutors are perverting the American legal system
Rich Lowry. Feb. 23, 2024, 5:03 p.m.(Lowry is no fan of Trump)
Donald Trump has a $355 million judgment against him, and we’re just getting started.
The judgment in the civil fraud case, which reaches $450 million including pre-judgment interest, is the handiwork of an elected Democratic judge in a case brought by an elected Democratic prosecutor who pledged to pursue Trump in her election campaign.
The prosecutor, New York AttorneyGeneral Letitia James, wielded an incredibly broad statute meant to target consumer fraud.
Executive Law 63(12) doesn’t require any finding of intent to commit fraud or illegality, or require actual victims.
The judge in the case, Arthur Engoron, saidit didn’t even matter whether Trump’s exaggerated valuations of his assets were relied on by anyone.
It is, in short, the magic bullet of anti-fraud statutes, and the perfect weapon in the hands of a politically motivated prosecutor looking for any reason to nail one specific person she and all her supporters passionately hate.
The shockingly extravagant judgmentagainst Trump isn’t for damages—since there were, ahem, no damages — but supposedly to “disgorge” his “ill-gotten gains.”
In harassing lawsuits or prosecutions,it is often said that the process— in other words, the time and money spent fighting the case —is the punishment.
That’s certainly true of Trump, whose campaign coffers have been drained by legal fees and whose schedule has been clogged with court dates.But the punishment is also the punishment.
On top of the civil fraud case, Trump has been hit by $5 million and $83.3 million verdicts in the two E. Jean Carroll cases.
Former prosecutor Andy McCarthy notes that the rules in such cases are that the defendant “has to post the amount of the judgment, plus interest, in order to assure the court that the appeal is not simply for purposes of delay, and that the defendant will pay up if he loses.”
That means Trump will have to pony up half a billion dollars merely to appeal.
This is before Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg comes in with his criminal case, wherein the elected Democratic prosecutor has bootstrapped what should, at most, be a misdemeanor involving hush money paid to a porn star into 34 felony counts.
Bragg’s fraud case, in what’s becoming a theme,doesn’t allege anyone actually being defrauded. It was brought only after Bragg was criticized by allies for taking a pass on charges that, to quote Abraham Lincoln, are “as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by boiling the shadow of a pigeon that had starved to death.”
“Lock her up” was an unworthy slogan directed at Hillary Clinton back in 2016; now, Trump’s enemies have seen and raised that sentiment:
They are moving to destroy Trump’s business, drain his resources, blacken his reputation, sink his presidential campaign and, if they can, lock him up — and literally, not figuratively.
What’s happeningin New York — and is being replicated at the federal level and in Georgia in the 2020 election cases —is law as blood lust.
It is a rejection of the Anglo-American legal tradition as it has developed over the centuries to enshrine neutrality and fair play in favor of something that is more personalized and illiberal.
These prosecutors are acting as if they consider the famous speech by then-attorney general and future Supreme Court Justice Robert Jackson not as a warning, but a roadmap: He called “the most dangerous power of the prosecutor” that “he will pick people that he thinks he should get, rather than pick cases that need to be prosecuted.”
Given the variety of laws on the books, Jackson explained, “A prosecutor stands a fair chance of finding at least a technical violation of some act on the part of almost anyone.”
Then it becomes “a question of picking the man and searching the law books, or putting investigators to work, to pin some offense on him.”
That Donald Trump is the man in question doesn’t make this phenomenon any less disgraceful or un-American.
Twitter: @RichLowry
https://nypost.com/2024/02/23/opinion/tish-james-and-other-trump-persecutors-are-perverting-the-american-legal-system/
CPAC: Jack Posobiec: "What You Call Democracy Is The Same Thing That North Korea Calls Democracy"Media is attacking POSO, all over the place
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CPAC Bannon: Bishop Strickland: "We Need To Be One Nation Under God Once Again"Very good
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CPAC: Kari Lake: "He's The One That Created This Invasion, The Bidenvasion"
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CPAC Caroline Wren: "We Are Not Gonna Sit Around And Watch The Same Leaders Fail Us Over And Over Again"
She gets an impression this is Mitch McConnell, that this is his last term of him in Senate
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CPAC Reggie Littlejohn: "We Are At War And We Don't Even Know It" we need to defund the WHO. We must do it now because the WHO can be approved my May. Everyone must call, email etc to contact our reps in Congress/Senate
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