A travel consultant who testified in the case of the National Rifle Association’s bankruptcy said executive director Wayne LaPierre ordered him to omit certain flight stops from the bills he sent to the gun group for Mr. Rifle’s private plane trip. LaPierre, a revelation requested by NRA lawyers. keep yourself out of court.
The travel consultant confessed, in a video cassette presentation played on Thursday in the bankruptcy court, that certain invoices she sent to ANR omitted stops in Nebraska and the Bahamas, at the request of Mr. LaPierre. Some of Mr. LaPierre’s relatives, who frequently traveled on NRA-paid private jets, live in Nebraska.
The ANR chief previously confessed that he frequently traveled to the Bahamas to stay for free on a 108-meter yacht in the Bahamas with family members provided by an ANR vendor for security reasons.
The testimony that the alleged Mr. LaPierre sought to hide certain private jet stops from ANR accountants could be evidence that he knew that what he was doing was wrong and that he was deliberately hiding it, legal experts said.
“If true, this seems like a well-documented case of knowing the misuse of ANR assets and hiding this abuse,” said Elizabeth Kingsley, a non-profit lawyer in Washington.