U.S. Trustee says the gun advocacy group misrepresented CEO Wayne LaPierre’s expenses as business costs.
The U.S. Department of Justice is objecting to the National Rifle Association’s bankruptcy plan, pointing to what the agency says is mismanagement of funds by leaders of the gun advocacy organization. Lisa Lambert, assistant U.S. Trustee in the DOJ’s Trustee Office, said Monday during the NRA’s bankruptcy case in Texas that the group’s longtime CEO, Wayne LaPierre, used NRA funds for his own purposes and failed to properly safeguarded the group’s financial records. “The record is unrefuted that Wayne LaPierre’s personal expenses were made to look like business expenses,” she said in a hearing in the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Texas. Lambert is asking the judge overseeing the NRA’s case to halt proceedings and either dismiss it or appoint an outside investigator — known as an examiner — to assess whether the organization had a legitimate reason to declare bankruptcy.
