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I would think that the folks responsible for crimes like misusing charitable funds would be punished with fines and/or jail. What's the authority/law under whi
by jessriedel 6y ago
I would think that the folks responsible for crimes like misusing charitable funds would be punished with fines and/or jail. What's the authority/law under which a political advocacy organization can be forcibly disbanded? I can't recall something like that being done before.
- henriquez 6y agoAlso, the NRA is split into two groups, a 501c3 and 501c4. These are organized at the federal level. It's not clear how the NY Attorney General would have jurisdiction to break the whole organization up; seems like that would require a federal lawsuit and Attorney General Barr to be involved (lol). So at most NY might be able to suspend the NRA's state operations, and most likely the NRA could just form one or two more New York nonprofits and re-affiliate to the national org if this happened. In other words, this seems like toothless posturing and a waste of taxpayer money in a state that can't afford to be wasting any more money at this time. This will also turn into a huge fundraising opportunity for the NRA ("donate to help us destroy the far-left NY AG with logic and facts"); in effect it will be counterproductive to actually hurting the NRA. It's literally just posturing.
- neltnerb 6y agoIt's a nonprofit, this happens frequently. That they aren't following their charter or state law is why they can have their nonprofit status revoked. You've never heard of a charitable organization getting in trouble for misusing donations to enrich board members? This is that.