Jeanine Pirro on NRA Fraud Allegations: 'It Happens All The Time, It's No Big Deal'

[Nevilledog]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/jeanine-pirro-on-nra-fraud-allegations-it-happens-all-the-time-it-s-no-big-deal/ar-BB17Hbts

While the assertions that National Rifle Association (NRA) officials spent millions raised through membership dues on lavish vacations, kickbacks, and self-enriching contracts stunned many, Fox News host Jeanine Pirro suggested the alleged conduct was run-of-the-mill and not the “big deal” that NY Attorney General Letitia James’s announcement presented it to be. Pirro said the Democratic AG’s motives in seeking to dissolve the Second Amendment advocacy group were clearly political.

New York’s lawsuit seeking to dissolve the NRA on Thursday laid out a litany of allegations accusing the organization’s top executives of defrauding the charitable organization for their own personal gain. Appearing on the network’s morning show Fox & Friends on Friday morning, Pirro, the first woman ever to serve as Westchester County’s District Attorney, said the lawsuit was less about the law and more about politics.

Pirro referred to the claims of using charitable donations to fund trips on private jets and expensive were “classic self-dealing allegations.”

She then set her sights on the attorney general, saying the nature and timing of the lawsuit revealed the action to be entirely politically motivated.

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These are the most morally limber people I've ever seen.

[SheltieLover]

1. To a grifter

This is "normal."

If I were an NRA member, I would be furious!

[gratuitous]

2. Just so, Judge Leadfoot

I remember the calm, dispassionate response Fox had when the unsubstantiated rumors about the Clinton Foundation were first bruited about.

[Thomas Hurt]

3. She is right, to the average conservative, if you make money like this...

it makes you clever and an astute businessman. This is what pisses cons off about "big gov't". Regs that come between the grifter and the money they might make off their scams.

[Stallion]

4. Yes It Does Happen Much Too Often in Non-Profits-Let's Do Something About That

the non-profit world is a Grifter's Paradise flush taxpayer money down the commode

[greenjar_01]

11. Agreed

Family foundations are tax grifts mostly; many non-profits are laundering centers like the NRA.

Much less efficient than government programs in most cases.

[KG]

5. remember when the r.w. hated situational ethics?

[Jrsygrl96]

6. Of course

she would say that. Her husband spent time in prison for conspiracy and tax fraud. He wrote off 1.5 million dollars in fraudulent expenses. That was 20 years ago though. I am sure he'd get away scott free now with all the corruption going on. That would just be child's play.

[grumpyduck]

7. "revealed the action to be entirely politically motivated."

Hmmm, it would appear that Herlackofhonor doesn't watch Fox all that much. Everyfuckingthing they say is politically motivated.

[dem in texas]

8. When NRA moves to Texas

Texas republicans are ready to greet the NRA with open arms.

Here's the house a NRA rep bought for La Pierre several years ago. Reportedly La Pierre's wife didn't like it and they never moved in. Another example of where the memberships' money was going. The price for the house as reported in the Dallas Morning News was $6,000,000.

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[Sneederbunk]

9. Crooked Wayne is on the ropes.

[greenjar_01]

10. Charity directors have travel consultants on retainer for hundreds of thousands a year?

All the time?

Jiminy!

[sunonmars]

12. I'd be investigating her then, she's most likely grifting somehow too.

[Silent3]

13. If it were a $20 questionable charge made by a Democratic...

...it would be outrageous, because , you know, the principle of it.

[marybourg]

14. If she is still a member of the N.Y. Bar,

and if she actually said - and it wasn’t just headline writer’s hyperbole — that “It’s no big deal” and “it happens all the time”, I believe she could be disbarred for this; undermining the justice system.

But I have seen too much of headline writer’s exaggerations to fully believe it. And maybe she resigned her Bar membership. I don’t care enough to check.

[keithbvadu2]

15. Corruption 'Happens All The Time' with republicans.

Corruption 'Happens All The Time' with republicans.

'It's No Big Deal' to republicans.