S2: The NRA | EP6: Family Business

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Society & Culture, History, True Crime, Documentary

4.6 • 7.2K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2020

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Could this be more than business? Could it be personal? A deeper look at the NRA attorney at the center of everything. 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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0:00.0	See 13 originals.
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0:25.2	Let's begin this episode with a clip from Fox News's Swamp Watch.
0:31.7	As you know in our Swamp Watch series, we expose corruption and greed wherever we find
0:35.6	it because we are always fighting for you against the elitists and the corrupt establishment
0:40.5	lining their pockets at your expense tonight.
0:43.0	We have a particularly egregious example, a man who's been exploiting for his own personal
0:48.2	enrichment, one of the most deeply held beliefs of decent American patriots.
0:54.0	The NRA CEO Wayne Lapierre is tonight's Swamp Watch.
1:03.2	Since the 2019 convention, Wayne Lapierre has been exposed for his history of using NRA
1:10.2	money for his personal benefit.
1:13.5	He spent 274 thousand dollars on luxury suits at one Beverly Hills boutique alone, including
1:21.5	39,000 in one day.
1:25.0	His wife, Susan, has spent tens of thousands of dollars flying her personal makeup artist
1:31.1	on private jets and booking her in top hotels.
1:36.3	Wayne and Susan together have spent hundreds of thousands of dollars taking lavish trips
1:41.6	to Budapest, Italy and the Bahamas, and even flying the private jet up to Wisconsin to
1:49.5	pick up Susan's niece.
1:52.8	It appears that all of these bills were routed through the NRA's top vendor, Akerman
1:58.6	McQueen, and then paid back by the NRA using membership money.
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