NEW YORK — The National Rifle Association and its ex-CEO were caught "with their hands in the cookie jar," a lawyer with the New York Attorney General's Office said Thursday, at the conclusion of a civil trial accusing the gun rights group's executives of wildly misspending millions of dollars on private flights, vacations and other lavish perks.
Earlier in closing arguments to the Manhattan jury, an attorney for Wayne LaPierre, the powerful nonprofit advocacy organization's long-serving leader, had dismissed the case as a political witch hunt by New York Attorney General Letitia James. The NRA's lawyer, meanwhile, said it could not be held accountable for LaPierre's actions.
