{"id":30995,"date":"2021-02-18T02:54:26","date_gmt":"2021-02-18T02:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=30995"},"modified":"2021-02-18T02:55:48","modified_gmt":"2021-02-18T02:55:48","slug":"the-lawsuit-that-keeps-on-giving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlygunsandmoney.com\/?p=30995","title":{"rendered":"The Lawsuit That Keeps On Giving"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:4120,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/www.courtlistener.com\\\/recap\\\/gov.uscourts.txnd.321485\\\/gov.uscourts.txnd.321485.203.1.pdf&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/storage.courtlistener.com:443\\\/recap\\\/gov.uscourts.txnd.321485\\\/gov.uscourts.txnd.321485.203.1.pdf&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:null,&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>The lawsuit and counter-lawsuit between the NRA and Ackerman McQueen is the lawsuit that keeps on giving. Reading the amended complaint filed yesterday by Ackerman McQueen is like reading about one of those Hollywood celebrity divorce cases but only better.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I give you the first three sections of AckMac&#8217;s &#8220;SECOND AMENDED THIRD-PARTY COMPLAINT AGAINST WAYNE LAPIERRE &amp; THE NRA FOUNDATION, INC.&#8221; The Complementary Spouse said to me when I started snorting that it must have been funny. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>This Third-Party Complaint arises from a series of ethically questionable<br>undertakings by the NRA through its longtime leader Executive Vice President and CEO, Wayne LaPierre (\u201cLaPierre\u201d). As a result of his authoritarian management style,<strong> love of money and power, and deep personal paranoia<\/strong>, today, LaPierre has reduced the NRA to a cult of personality as he continues to waste membership funds on media stunts and serial litigation with only one purpose: <strong>to save his own skin<\/strong>.<\/p><p>Through the intricate financial arrangements he constructed over decades with very little oversight from the NRA Board of Directors or other executives, LaPierre was able to obtain millions of dollars in personal benefits by keeping vendors and the NRA\u2019s own accounting<br>department in the dark about his personal spending. As the gathering storm clouds of a possible investigation by the New York Attorney General (\u201cNYAG\u201d) started to form in 2018, LaPierre became concerned the details of his <strong>financial adventurism<\/strong> may come to light.<\/p><p>LaPierre sought assistance from <strong>lawyer\/media-darling<\/strong>, William A. Brewer III (\u201cBrewer\u201d), and his law firm\/public-relations firm, Brewer Attorneys &amp; Counselors (the \u201cBrewer Firm\u201d), who together with LaPierre\u2019s Chief of Staff, Joshua Powell (\u201cPowell\u201d), formulated a plan<br>to pin all liability on a convenient scapegoat, deflect media attention from LaPierre\u2019s malfeasance and failed NRA programs, and maintain LaPierre\u2019s domination of the NRA. Many of the resulting actions were made possible by <strong>LaPierre\u2019s paranoia and guilty conscience<\/strong>, as he repeatedly proclaimed that Brewer was the only one who \u201ccould keep him out of jail.\u201d By fantastic coincidence, Brewer determined that it was AMc\u2014a company owned by his own father-in-law\u2014 who could be blamed for all of the NRA\u2019s malfeasance and financial woes. <strong>In return for deflecting the spotlight from LaPierre, Brewer was given free rein to reap a financial windfall in exorbitant attorney fees, displace his father-in-law\u2019s company as the public-relations firm for the NRA, and set up AMc as the perfect \u201cfall guy.<\/strong>\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>It was the &#8220;lawyer\/media-darling&#8221; characterization of William Brewer III that had me in stitches.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While all of this is somewhat humorous to read, the sad thing is that from everything I&#8217;ve heard that Wayne LaPierre is paranoid and let Brewer be his &#8220;Rasputin&#8221; in an effort to save his own skin. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ones to suffer from all of this will not be Wayne, Bill Brewer, or AckMac. It will be the ordinary NRA members who gave their hard-earned monies to the organization in order to protect their God-given right to self-defense as enshrined in the Second Amendment. Just when it is needed most, the NRA&#8217;s attention is on its series of lawsuits against AckMac and its bankruptcy stunt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>You can read the whole complaint <a href=\"https:\/\/www.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.txnd.321485\/gov.uscourts.txnd.321485.203.1.pdf\" class=\"rank-math-link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The lawsuit and counter-lawsuit between the NRA and Ackerman McQueen is the lawsuit that keeps on giving. 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