Gangster Capitalism S2: The NRA | EP2: A Clear Crisis

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Society & Culture, History, True Crime, Documentary

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🗓️ 25 March 2020

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Lines are drawn, as Wayne LaPierre’s supremacy is tested, and the rift spills out into public. To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:55.7	I spent almost four years exclusively covering the National Rifle Association, which I don't think
1:03.9	another reporter has ever done before.
1:09.2	That's Mike Speez.
1:11.4	You heard Mike in episode one.
1:14.2	He's a reporter for ProPublica, who's covered the NRA for the New Yorker and The Trace,
1:20.4	a non-profit newsroom which focuses on guns and violence in America.
1:26.8	Insiders have been telling me for years, you know, you got to look at the contractors.
1:30.8	There's all kinds of money issues. People complain about it all the time.
1:35.7	One frequent contractor that came up was the NRA's longtime public relations firm,
1:41.5	Akron McQueen. But for years, it was sort of like I just couldn't get
1:46.6	into it. People would say it, but there was no proof. And then I started to develop a better
1:53.0	stable of sources. I started to get information on people who were coming and going from the
1:59.5	organization, people who would have in
2:02.0	theory known things the light bulb moment was this the end of 2018 the NRA
2:12.7	filed its 2017 990 which is the tax filing that all nonprofits are required to send into the IRS.
2:22.8	People would always tell me, like, they're keeping all this stuff out of their filing.
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