When you give a donation to a not-for-profit organization, there are rules.

A charity, in this case the National Rifle Association, can't just use that donated money any way it pleases.

That's where New York's Attorney General, Letitia James, comes in. My office filed a lawsuit against the National Rifle Association

to dissolve the organization in its entirety for years of self-dealing

and illegal conduct that violate New York's charity's law

and undermine its own mission.

Letitia James made this announcement a couple of weeks ago, seemingly out of the blue,

pleasing progressives and causing consternation for Second Amendment advocates.

In some, what the Attorney General here is alleging is just an incredible culture of self-dealing,

one of mismanagement, and one where the board of this organization was negligent in overseeing

how that money in the organization was being spent.

That's Tim Mack.

He's an investigative reporter for NPR who's been following the National

Rifle Association closely for years. Did Letitia James take a bold or unexpected

interpretation of the law when she looked not just to find the NRA or punish the NRA or scold the NRA,

but in fact end the organization.

Well, she has the power to do so.

I mean, there's precedent to do so, and the law does allow her in the most egregious cases to shut down charitable organizations.

Tim says the Attorney General has taken down charities doing business in New York before, like the Trump Foundation.

And the argument that the Attorney General of New York would make is that the corruption inside the organization is so widespread, so deep, that it can't be salvaged.

The New York AG's lawsuit lists dozens and dozens of cases of alleged financial misconduct.

We're talking things like the use of NRA funds for private vacations, the widespread

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