{"id":800,"date":"2024-01-07T01:34:04","date_gmt":"2024-01-07T01:34:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/07\/former-nra-chief-of-staff-admits-wrongdoing-before-corruption-trial\/"},"modified":"2024-01-07T01:34:04","modified_gmt":"2024-01-07T01:34:04","slug":"former-nra-chief-of-staff-admits-wrongdoing-before-corruption-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/07\/former-nra-chief-of-staff-admits-wrongdoing-before-corruption-trial\/","title":{"rendered":"Former NRA chief of staff admits wrongdoing before corruption trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Joshua Powell, one of five defendants in lawsuit including former CEO Wayne LaPierre, has agreed to pay $100,000<\/p>\n<p>A former chief of staff to Wayne LaPierre \u2013 who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/jan\/05\/wayne-lapierre-nra-resigns\">resigned<\/a> as the National Rifle Association\u2019s chief executive on Friday \u2013 has agreed to a $100,000 settlement in connection with a civil lawsuit filed by the New York attorney general\u2019s office.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the settlement announced on Saturday, Joshua Powell \u2013 one of five defendants in the lawsuit against the NRA, a gun-rights organization \u2013 admitted to wrongdoing in failing to fulfill his fiduciary responsibilities and misusing charitable funds.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/jan\/06\/nra-joshua-powell-settles-wrongdoing-corruption-trial\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joshua Powell, one of five defendants in lawsuit including former CEO Wayne LaPierre, has agreed to pay $100,000 A former chief of staff to Wayne LaPierre \u2013 who resigned as the National Rifle Association\u2019s chief executive on Friday \u2013 has agreed to a $100,000 settlement in connection with a civil lawsuit filed by the New &#8230; <a title=\"Former NRA chief of staff admits wrongdoing before corruption trial\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/01\/07\/former-nra-chief-of-staff-admits-wrongdoing-before-corruption-trial\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Former NRA chief of staff admits wrongdoing before corruption trial\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}