Wall Street Journal: NRA agreed to pay $6.5 million for Wayne LaPierre mansion
Source: CNN
Washington(CNN) The National Rifle Association previously agreed to pay $6.5 million to buy a mansion for CEO Wayne LaPierre, The Wall Street Journal reported Tuesday.
A top NRA executive, then-Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer Wilson H. Phillips Jr., signed a document in May 2018 promising the gun lobby would contribute $6.5 million for 99% ownership of a company formed to buy a Dallas mansion for LaPierre, according to a copy of the document reviewed by the Journal. The NRA and its then-outside advertising firm, Ackerman McQueen, told the Journal that the planning to buy the home started in the wake of the Parkland, Florida, mass shooting, when LaPierre had concerns about his safety. The deal ultimately fell through.
The report comes as the NRA faces intense scrutiny of its finances, internal turmoil and leadership changes. New York Attorney General Letitia James in April launched an inquiry into the organization, which is chartered in New York. A gun-control group has also filed a complaint with the IRS, challenging the NRA's tax-exempt status.
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LaPierre and his wife, Susan, reportedly toured the house -- a 10,000-square-foot mansion in a gated golf community near Dallas -- two times. Ackerman McQueen agreed at the time to help facilitate the transaction and manage the property after closing, the Journal reports, citing people familiar with the matter.
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gtar100
(4,192 posts)Living off other people's money.
Members of the NRA, your leader thanks you for paying your dues, on time.
Scarsdale
(9,426 posts)YOUR kids have to "take their chances" going to school. Keep re-newing your membership - FOOLS.
Marie Marie
(9,999 posts)But I know better.
cstanleytech
(26,319 posts)BeyondGeography
(39,379 posts)But yeah, the timing...brilliant.
HotRod Deluxe
(86 posts)Gonna hafta raise those membership dues to help with them there property taxes!
tanyev
(42,610 posts)Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)They think they all deserve to be king or at least nobility. Lording over their lessers, deciding what they do and don't deserve.
lastlib
(23,286 posts)Turbineguy
(37,365 posts)who's killed more American than Hitler to live in a fuckin' hovel.
joshdawg
(2,651 posts)he might have to share it with my dog.
sdfernando
(4,941 posts)Sherman A1
(38,958 posts)I would blow a gasket at this use of the organization's funds.
True Blue American
(17,988 posts)Has been paying for his expensive vacation, his 2 thousand dollar suits, his expensive meals.
Why not buy him a mansion?
Suckers!
Bernardo de La Paz
(49,036 posts)JI7
(89,264 posts)oasis
(49,407 posts)This semi-undercover plunder s reminicient of Hermann Goering.