Check for Dallas Mansion Raises New Questions About NRA Plans
Source: Wall Street Journal
In May 2018, the National Rifle Association sent a $70,000 check to an obscure Delaware entity called WBB Investments LLC, which had been incorporated a week earlier.
The check, a copy of which was obtained by The Wall Street Journal, raises new questions about the NRAs attempts to explain a tangled transaction involving its then-outside advertising agency and an abortive plan to purchase a $6 million Dallas mansion for NRA CEO Wayne LaPierre.
The advertising agency, Ackerman McQueen, recently turned over documents to the proposed house purchase to the New York attorney generals office, which is probing Mr. LaPierres dealings with the agency as part of a broad investigation of the NRA.
When the Journal broke the story last week, the NRA initially said the plan to buy the mansion was hatched by Angus McQueen, the ad agencys late co-CEO, as a kind of safe house for Mr. LaPierre. The NRA chief had concerns about his security in the wake of the February 2018 mass shooting at a high school in Parkland, Fla.
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underpants
(182,879 posts)Just invite some of them over. Doesnt matter who, Im sure theyre all good guys.
TryLogic
(1,723 posts)The NRA causes all kinds of trouble for this country, and membership dues provide lots of money to buy politicians.
bucolic_frolic
(43,286 posts)Rich. Rich indeed.
not fooled
(5,801 posts)which could only be ameliorated by holing up in a mansion. Guess it was gonna be the "NRA safe mansion."
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)To HELL with school kids wearing bullet proof backpacks, and parents worried sick about sending their kids to school. Sick people in the NRA. Reap what you have sown, bastard Lapierre. All tax free, no less.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)Thoughts and prayers.
B Stieg
(2,410 posts)keithbvadu2
(36,906 posts)Yet they were hurting for money so badly that they cut out the office coffee.
JDC
(10,133 posts)It exists for no other purpose than to line pockets.
yaesu
(8,020 posts)BadGimp
(4,018 posts)TexasBushwhacker
(20,214 posts)Why can't he but his own damn house?
GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)Now it is apparent their members are just rubes lining the pockets of the people that run it while supporting policies that kill more and more Americans.