The National Rifle Association’s former finance czar agreed to a decade-long ban from managing money for New York not-for-profits after a jury found him liable in a scheme to have the influential gun rights organization bankroll a longtime chief executive’s extravagant lifestyle.
FILE - An NRA sign is seen outside the track of the NASCAR Sprint Cup series, April 12, 2013, in Fort Worth, Texas. The National Rifle Associations former finance czar, Wilson Woody Phillips, has been banned for a decade from managing money for any nonprofit company in New York, the states attorney general said Tuesday, July 9, 2024.
Manhattan Judge Joel Cohen is to decide remaining issues in the case beginning July 15, including whether former LaPierre and ex-general counsel John Frazer should be barred from charitable organizations in the state. Jurors found Frazer violated his duties, but not that he owed any money or that there was cause to remove him from the organization. They also found that the NRA failed to properly manage its assets, omitted or misrepresented information in its tax filings and violated whistleblower protections under New York law.
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 CohenThe trial 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.
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