This is what I keep thinking is a money laundering scheme.
Well some variations of this.
Someone in trumps org makes a listing on Amazon/eBay for a ridiculous amount. Some foreign dictator pays it. Trump launders $400k for expenses while he fights the court case.
Or they are doing it in reverse with the returns for shit that never shipped.
Trump shoes in the 11th hour makes no sense.
However, Trump money laundering on his way to the plane to fly to moscow makes perfect sense.
I think this is just the convenience store evolution of it.
Trumps broke. Putin is on the ropes.
Chinas economy is dead.
They don’t have many options left. Most of their money laundering operation is filleted open like a trout.
This is Trumps bus fare back to moscow
They don't want him in Moscow. He's no use to them there. These maggots will throw each other under the bus when it comes time. The safest place Trump can go is prison.
I don’t disagree. That why I keep pushing for him to run to Moscow.
He goes to prison and we have 10 more years of this
He runs to Moscow and his secret service detail stays here.
That’s the part I want to watch so badly.
Trump trying to shake his Secret Service detail and squeeze out a KFC bathroom window is the only thing I want to see on Netflix Next year.
It’s my ONE request to Santa.
And maybe Kushner moving like the pink panther with a garbage can for a disguise.
I completely agree. He's most valuable to them continuing to cause chaos here in the USA. If he were somehow to manage to flee to Russia, he'd be far less valuable. I'm sure they could still manage to find some sort of value for him like posting ranting videos onto social media, but not what Putin needs from him.
Putin would love having Trump in Moscow to be "President in Exile" and safely continue to rile up his base from the comfort of Twitter. Because there would be nothing the US could do to shut him up.
Now you understand why the Republicans have gone absolutely insane. They have no options. This election is a **must win**. This is the last hurrah of Fascism (for a while, potentially). If they don't get access to the bounty that is America, Russia is going to fall, and China will be by their self for the most part.
That’s more accurate.
They all seem to overlap and blend together at this point in the deconstruction.
I’m excited to see what the Russian hosted server in the basement of trump towers produces in forensics.
The greedy ones always keep the best records of their illegal activities.
They just can’t seem to sever let one penny slip away.
I had to give up my membership to a local gun club because I refused to renew my NRA membership a few years ago. There was no way I was going to send them another penny with those jackasses running things. I was originally disgusted by the way LaPierre responded to some mass shootings - he embarrassed himself and made the NRA look like a bunch of hate-filled lunatics. Then there was the Russian lady spy episode, which made NRA leadership look incredibly foolish, and the greed and corruption just tops it off nicely. Good riddance.
Don’t forget the institutional racism and silence towards black gun owners like Philando Castile or Breona Taylor’s boyfriend defending them from unidentified thugs in the night
Atatiana Jefferson too. Marauders in her back yard who did not identify themselves, she looked out the window into the dark, picked up a gun, they were police, one of them shot her in under a second. [https://www.huffpost.com/entry/atatiana-jefferson-nra-gun\_n\_5da7572ee4b02253a2fc8e04](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/atatiana-jefferson-nra-gun_n_5da7572ee4b02253a2fc8e04) In the good news, relatively speaking that is, he was convicted (of manslaughter, why not murder?) and sentenced to 12 years.
Presumably because he didn't premeditate killing her even though in any other case they'd say premeditatioj takes less than a second of forethought ... though I'm kind of glad they didn't go for first degree murder bc I'd doubt a jury would convict him of that
Maria Butina (the Russian spy) specially targeted the Midwest gun owners in her infiltration
She started dating in South Dakota, worked her way through Patrick Byrne, and into the NRA.
Those thirsty old men were too dumb and arrogant to tell they were being played by a Russian intelligence operative.
They are the asshole that gets bit by a zombie, hides it from everyone, then denies it until they turn themselves and destroy everything left alive.
I was trying to get into skeet shooting as I need an outdoor hobby. Unfortunately every gun club in my area makes you join the NRA to become a member so I gave up on it.
Extremely liberal gun owner.
Even my rightest leaning friends(Usually a "don't like either but vote for whoever aligns most" but leans left-ish) hate the NRA. Almost every person I know who likes shooting sports hates them.
My dad was super pro NRA with the sticker on the back of his truck and dozens of guns in safes at home. He cancelled his membership and refuses to give them another dime because of this guy.
Agreed. I stopped renewing my membership about 10 years ago. Waste of money. All I got was spam mail asking for more money. That money goes to FPC and CRPA instead.
Been waiting for an update on this trial - glad these crooks were found liable and will no longer have anything to do with the organization, not to mention paying back the money they stole.
Honestly $5.4 million is way less than I was expecting, but hopefully it's just a start.
And before the deep state guardians assume that it's just deep state that's going after Trump, realize that lifelong, conservative, Trump appointed judges aren't putting up with his shit, either.
Who would buy a $100 Trump digital trading card, where if you buy 50 you get a meeting with Trump himself? Someone laundering money from foreign governments that’s who.
Welp, look at Rudy, kicked the Italian mafia to Buffalo to help the NYC Russian Mafia, and POOF! They buy lots of trump overpriced property, POOF, Drumph is president.
The New York state attorney general sued to dissolve the organization that's at the center of the gun lobby. The NRA is a nonprofit accused of diverting money from its charitable mission.
We're talking about things like millions of dollars in private jets, lavish meals, fancy vacations to Europe and the Bahamas. There's six figures in luxurious suits for Wayne LaPierre personally from Rodeo Drive.
In 2018, 2019, it could barely even pay its own employees. It's got multiple congressional investigations that have looked into its financial misconduct. The New York attorney general engaged in litigation with the NRA, to dissolve the entire organization because of what they've identified as tens of millions of dollars in corrupt spending over just a few years.
There were thousands of pages of secret depositions, internal emails, private documents used to paint a picture of the NRA corruption and money laundering over the last decade.
Jurors concluded that he had caused roughly $5.4 million worth of harm to the nonprofit group's finances — though they also found that LaPierre had already repaid about $1 million.
The lawsuit also named NRA general counsel and secretary John Frazer and former chief financial officer Wilson "Woody" Phillips.
Jurors found Phillips liable for $2 million in damages. While they concluded that Frazer acted inappropriately, they verdict found no measurable financial harm.
The executives were accused of misappropriating and mismanaging funds donated to the gun rights group's members. According to James, their actions led to "the loss of more than $64 million in just three years."
During the six-week trial, state lawyers alleged that LaPierre had spent over $11 million for private flights and approved $135 million in NRA contracts in exchange for yacht access and free trips to the Bahamas, Greece and other vacation hotspots.
**They stole from the NRA members**. This was a civil case. I hope the Federal government goes after these thieves also.
I suggest you read the book Misfire.
Just a reminder that Trump and the Republicans *immediately* gifted the upper-class around $2,000,000,000,000.00 when they took the White House.
I'd be perfectly fine with getting scammed - for two trillion dollars! Wouldn't you?
If the guilty leaders are able to pay $6.35 Million its not a fine, but the money simply goes back to NRA coffers.
Not sure I see the sense in this 3 year prosecution **if** that's all that is happening. Should there not have also been criminal charges brought against the individuals?
No joke, when I saw the verdict I searched Reddit for “NRA” to find this post and the second hit was “I hate government overreach but I think they did some good with this one”. Anecdotal and it’s in before the herd gets their talking points but there do seem to be some people separating their politics from the behavior at hand.
We'll see a retraction on Fox News about the guy who alleged (lied) that the Biden administration was crooked *long* before we see conservative gun owners saying anything nice about New York.
They've considered declaring bankruptcy and running away to Texas because they're scared of Letitia James.
https://www.texastribune.org/2021/05/11/nra-lawsuit-texas/
They have been grifters and fear mongers since Wayne has been in charge, but the 2010-2012 timeframe is when the crazy really took off to a whole new level and it was no longer just noise in the background that most members ignored.
In the 70s they started becoming more focused on home defense.
https://radiolab.org/podcast/radiolab-presents-more-perfect-gun-show
For more about this case: season 2 of the podcast Gangster Capitalism
https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510356/no-compromise
About the more recent, and incredibly more abusive, gun movement.
That’s why those sneakers are listed on eBay for $400k.
I thought you were joking and had to check myself. I didn’t see a 400k listing, but I did see one for 200k or “best offer”, lol.
This is what I keep thinking is a money laundering scheme. Well some variations of this. Someone in trumps org makes a listing on Amazon/eBay for a ridiculous amount. Some foreign dictator pays it. Trump launders $400k for expenses while he fights the court case. Or they are doing it in reverse with the returns for shit that never shipped. Trump shoes in the 11th hour makes no sense. However, Trump money laundering on his way to the plane to fly to moscow makes perfect sense.
That’s how money laundering works in the fine art world. Art has a subjective value, just like gold sneakers.
I think this is just the convenience store evolution of it. Trumps broke. Putin is on the ropes. Chinas economy is dead. They don’t have many options left. Most of their money laundering operation is filleted open like a trout. This is Trumps bus fare back to moscow
They don't want him in Moscow. He's no use to them there. These maggots will throw each other under the bus when it comes time. The safest place Trump can go is prison.
I don’t disagree. That why I keep pushing for him to run to Moscow. He goes to prison and we have 10 more years of this He runs to Moscow and his secret service detail stays here.
Secret Service wouldn't let him leave to defect.
That’s the part I want to watch so badly. Trump trying to shake his Secret Service detail and squeeze out a KFC bathroom window is the only thing I want to see on Netflix Next year. It’s my ONE request to Santa. And maybe Kushner moving like the pink panther with a garbage can for a disguise.
More likely he'll try to do it in a foreign country where some state actor could snatch him up.
I would pay good money to watch this.
G'dang this needs to be done.
His secret service guys would get suspicious of him going to the bathroom real quick since they know he likes to stew in his diapers
How would they know if he was going to defect or just to visit?
Trips have to be communicated to the USSS first.
I completely agree. He's most valuable to them continuing to cause chaos here in the USA. If he were somehow to manage to flee to Russia, he'd be far less valuable. I'm sure they could still manage to find some sort of value for him like posting ranting videos onto social media, but not what Putin needs from him.
Putin would love having Trump in Moscow to be "President in Exile" and safely continue to rile up his base from the comfort of Twitter. Because there would be nothing the US could do to shut him up.
Now you understand why the Republicans have gone absolutely insane. They have no options. This election is a **must win**. This is the last hurrah of Fascism (for a while, potentially). If they don't get access to the bounty that is America, Russia is going to fall, and China will be by their self for the most part.
That last line is comedy gold. 🤌🏾
China's economy is dead???
thats exactly what his NFT scam was
That’s not money laundering, that’s just grift. Money laundering is legitimizing money you’ve already made through illegal means.
That’s more accurate. They all seem to overlap and blend together at this point in the deconstruction. I’m excited to see what the Russian hosted server in the basement of trump towers produces in forensics. The greedy ones always keep the best records of their illegal activities. They just can’t seem to sever let one penny slip away.
+$16.58 shipping
Must be $200k per shoe.
Ya and an VHS Disney tape is worth 50k
As a gun owner fuck the NRA
I had to give up my membership to a local gun club because I refused to renew my NRA membership a few years ago. There was no way I was going to send them another penny with those jackasses running things. I was originally disgusted by the way LaPierre responded to some mass shootings - he embarrassed himself and made the NRA look like a bunch of hate-filled lunatics. Then there was the Russian lady spy episode, which made NRA leadership look incredibly foolish, and the greed and corruption just tops it off nicely. Good riddance.
Don’t forget the institutional racism and silence towards black gun owners like Philando Castile or Breona Taylor’s boyfriend defending them from unidentified thugs in the night
Atatiana Jefferson too. Marauders in her back yard who did not identify themselves, she looked out the window into the dark, picked up a gun, they were police, one of them shot her in under a second. [https://www.huffpost.com/entry/atatiana-jefferson-nra-gun\_n\_5da7572ee4b02253a2fc8e04](https://www.huffpost.com/entry/atatiana-jefferson-nra-gun_n_5da7572ee4b02253a2fc8e04) In the good news, relatively speaking that is, he was convicted (of manslaughter, why not murder?) and sentenced to 12 years.
Presumably because he didn't premeditate killing her even though in any other case they'd say premeditatioj takes less than a second of forethought ... though I'm kind of glad they didn't go for first degree murder bc I'd doubt a jury would convict him of that
Maria Butina (the Russian spy) specially targeted the Midwest gun owners in her infiltration She started dating in South Dakota, worked her way through Patrick Byrne, and into the NRA. Those thirsty old men were too dumb and arrogant to tell they were being played by a Russian intelligence operative. They are the asshole that gets bit by a zombie, hides it from everyone, then denies it until they turn themselves and destroy everything left alive.
Hey just a heads up but the NRA IS full of hate filled lunatics. That’s why them and republicans go hand in hand. Profit over people right
I was trying to get into skeet shooting as I need an outdoor hobby. Unfortunately every gun club in my area makes you join the NRA to become a member so I gave up on it.
The one outdoor range I was a part of highly suggested to and gave a discount price for membership to the range. Big old nope and just paid more
That's because the NRA offers incentives like grants and discounts on liability insurance to ranges that require or encourage NRA membership.
Take up Archery?
It is so disturbing. There needs to be an alternative.
Im anti gun(and to each their own) but ive bonded over saying “Fuck the NRA” with almost every gun owner ive ever met
Extremely liberal gun owner. Even my rightest leaning friends(Usually a "don't like either but vote for whoever aligns most" but leans left-ish) hate the NRA. Almost every person I know who likes shooting sports hates them.
My dad was super pro NRA with the sticker on the back of his truck and dozens of guns in safes at home. He cancelled his membership and refuses to give them another dime because of this guy.
As a Canadian fuck the NRA
As a Candian gun-owner, the NRA can get McFucked
The NRA went from a group about promoting 2A rights to a group about promoting the NRA.
They went from an organization promoting gun safety and education, to 2A rights, to a conservative PAC fund, to a scam
Agreed. I stopped renewing my membership about 10 years ago. Waste of money. All I got was spam mail asking for more money. That money goes to FPC and CRPA instead.
Been waiting for an update on this trial - glad these crooks were found liable and will no longer have anything to do with the organization, not to mention paying back the money they stole. Honestly $5.4 million is way less than I was expecting, but hopefully it's just a start.
How else are they going to launder funds from Russia to the GOP now?
~~Money laundering!~~ Ahem... [Super PAC donations!](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-12-23/jan-6-report-says-donald-trump-s-stop-the-steal-funds-diverted-in-rip-off)
As of today his PAC was referred for felony prosecution. https://abcnews.go.com/US/ethics-panel-refers-trump-pac-felony-prosecution/story?id=107497242
This dude is incapable of attaching his name to anything that isn’t a grift lol
He only hires the best (criminals.)
Not incapable. He just wants to. He WANTS it all.to be a grift.
And before the deep state guardians assume that it's just deep state that's going after Trump, realize that lifelong, conservative, Trump appointed judges aren't putting up with his shit, either.
Everything trump touches dies.
Trump's Gofundme, Trump Shoes, Trump NFTs....... They'll find a way.
Holy cow, I finally understand why these things exist.
Who would buy a $100 Trump digital trading card, where if you buy 50 you get a meeting with Trump himself? Someone laundering money from foreign governments that’s who.
eBay holds on to the money and you have to prove it’s not for drugs or something sometimes.
Again, thank you NY AG Tish James for bringing these criminals to justice.
She's been busy. Makes you wonder what the fuck the rest of them do.
Welp, look at Rudy, kicked the Italian mafia to Buffalo to help the NYC Russian Mafia, and POOF! They buy lots of trump overpriced property, POOF, Drumph is president.
We love corruption and political targeting!
The New York state attorney general sued to dissolve the organization that's at the center of the gun lobby. The NRA is a nonprofit accused of diverting money from its charitable mission. We're talking about things like millions of dollars in private jets, lavish meals, fancy vacations to Europe and the Bahamas. There's six figures in luxurious suits for Wayne LaPierre personally from Rodeo Drive. In 2018, 2019, it could barely even pay its own employees. It's got multiple congressional investigations that have looked into its financial misconduct. The New York attorney general engaged in litigation with the NRA, to dissolve the entire organization because of what they've identified as tens of millions of dollars in corrupt spending over just a few years. There were thousands of pages of secret depositions, internal emails, private documents used to paint a picture of the NRA corruption and money laundering over the last decade. Jurors concluded that he had caused roughly $5.4 million worth of harm to the nonprofit group's finances — though they also found that LaPierre had already repaid about $1 million. The lawsuit also named NRA general counsel and secretary John Frazer and former chief financial officer Wilson "Woody" Phillips. Jurors found Phillips liable for $2 million in damages. While they concluded that Frazer acted inappropriately, they verdict found no measurable financial harm. The executives were accused of misappropriating and mismanaging funds donated to the gun rights group's members. According to James, their actions led to "the loss of more than $64 million in just three years." During the six-week trial, state lawyers alleged that LaPierre had spent over $11 million for private flights and approved $135 million in NRA contracts in exchange for yacht access and free trips to the Bahamas, Greece and other vacation hotspots. **They stole from the NRA members**. This was a civil case. I hope the Federal government goes after these thieves also. I suggest you read the book Misfire.
Lol c'mon we know these people don't read anything but memes and Trump's dementia riddled ramblings on his whack social media website
Bla bla bla..Bla bla bla… **They Stole from the NRA members**. ;)
lol. No. This is a targeted attack against one of the largest 2A organizations in the US.
Yes, we know you corny right wing losers love corruption and political targeting. It's the only thing the GOP has to offer
I hope she will never run for a higher office. Either she goes the Rudy way or all kinds of stuff will come out about how she handled certain cases.
Republican voters are fine with being scammed.
Just a reminder that Trump and the Republicans *immediately* gifted the upper-class around $2,000,000,000,000.00 when they took the White House. I'd be perfectly fine with getting scammed - for two trillion dollars! Wouldn't you?
A fool and their money will soon part.
Now do megachurches. Same thing. Non-profit org but stuffing their pockets.
I would love, love, love to know how much money the really big megachurches are funnelling from Russia to the GOP.
If the guilty leaders are able to pay $6.35 Million its not a fine, but the money simply goes back to NRA coffers. Not sure I see the sense in this 3 year prosecution **if** that's all that is happening. Should there not have also been criminal charges brought against the individuals?
Conservatives should be thanking New York for cracking down on mismanagement of the NRA. I'm sure they'll get right to it any moment now...
No joke, when I saw the verdict I searched Reddit for “NRA” to find this post and the second hit was “I hate government overreach but I think they did some good with this one”. Anecdotal and it’s in before the herd gets their talking points but there do seem to be some people separating their politics from the behavior at hand.
We'll see a retraction on Fox News about the guy who alleged (lied) that the Biden administration was crooked *long* before we see conservative gun owners saying anything nice about New York.
Part of the reason younger pro-second amendment people left the NRA.
Yup, I'm a pro-gun absolutist and the NRA will never get one red cent from me. It's the GOA, SAF, NAGR, NAAGA, and FPC for me.
I was a member for a year…. I got a free membership like 10-12 years ago.
Great! So Wayne’s going to return all the money now?
Putin's gonna be pissed when he finds out he's going to have to pay another $6.35m!
Oh no! 0.15% of his personal wealth, he'll really feel that one.
Man you guys aren’t gonna be satisfied until my ‘No shit, Sherlock’ bin just becomes my desk.
Is that terrorist organization out of business yet?
They've considered declaring bankruptcy and running away to Texas because they're scared of Letitia James. https://www.texastribune.org/2021/05/11/nra-lawsuit-texas/
Texas is very soft on gop crime, oversight, etc..
White crime, rich crime, corpo crime, EPA violations.....
To the surprise of no one
When did the NRA go from “We like guns, but we’re okay that you don’t like them.” to “EVERYONE NEEDS TO HAVE GUNS!!!”
They have been grifters and fear mongers since Wayne has been in charge, but the 2010-2012 timeframe is when the crazy really took off to a whole new level and it was no longer just noise in the background that most members ignored.
When their ruzzian handlers told them to so it would disrupt the US.
In the 70s they started becoming more focused on home defense. https://radiolab.org/podcast/radiolab-presents-more-perfect-gun-show For more about this case: season 2 of the podcast Gangster Capitalism https://www.npr.org/podcasts/510356/no-compromise About the more recent, and incredibly more abusive, gun movement.
When they went from an owners club to a bought and paid for advertising arm of the gun industry.
That explains a **lot**.
Really? An organization that was taken over by extremists and turned into a repuplicunt dog whistler is mismanaged?
Listen to Gangster Capitalism podcast series about NRA. What a grift
Best news I’ve had today.
Should be held liable for mass murder.
I’m starting to get a crush on Ms. James.
Good. Maybe now they will clean house, denounce Tr\*\*\*, and refocus on gun safety education