NRA Chief Wayne LaPierre has been under a politically motivated investigation by the NY AG office. He has almost welcomed it, literally telling the NY AG, “Bring it on.” He won’t be saying that to the IRS.

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The Wall Street Journal reported Monday, “The Internal Revenue Service is investigating longtime National Rifle Association CEO Wayne LaPierre for possible criminal tax fraud related to his personal taxes, according to people familiar with the matter. Mr. LaPierre was paid $2.2 million by the NRA in 2018, the most recent year available, the nonprofit group’s public filings show. His total reported pay from 2014 to 2018 was $11.2 million. In August, he was charged in a civil suit by New York Attorney General Letitia James with taking millions of dollars of allegedly undisclosed compensation from the NRA and its vendors, in the form of free yacht trips, private jet flights for his family, exotic safaris and other benefits.”

P. Kent Correll, an attorney for Mr. LaPierre, said about the report, “We’re not aware of any inquiry, so it would be premature for us to comment.”

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“The NRA is not aware of any IRS inquiry but, of course, will fully cooperate with any appropriate requests for assistance,” said William A. Brewer III, an attorney for the NRA.

Reports of LaPierre’s expenses emerged in 2019 amid a boardroom fight. Leaked documents showed that LaPierre charged at least $540,000 in clothing and luxury travel to Europe and the Bahamas to the NRA’s longtime ad firm. He actually went on vacation with his wife and niece, both involved in NRA issues, and called it a business meeting.

“Any time I get the two of them together anywhere, there is a benefit for the NRA,” he testified. “Yeah, they got together in the Bahamas…it could have been in Washington.”

The Wall Street Journal later reported that the NRA paid for private jets to ferry around Mr. LaPierre’s relatives. The NRA has said the expenses had business justifications.

This isn’t an open and shut case. All of DC regularly rationalizes luxury trips with friends and family as official business. So going after LaPierre for this is like giving speeding tickets at the Indy 500. But it can be taken too far.

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If the IRS really wants to nail him they will have to prove LaPierre did not conduct official business at these various meetings. But the investigation will not help the public image of the NRA. Seeing that, the NRA could hang him out to dry and fire him. Or they can fight it out.

Either way the Left will jump on this to go after the Second Amendment. It may also cause a reappraisal at the NRA of their spending habits. But they can’t blame this on a political prosecution. This is Trump’s IRS.

This piece was written by David Kamioner on October 7, 2020. It originally appeared in LifeZette and is used by permission.

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