With less than a week left as chief of the National Rifle Association, Wayne LaPierre got to look back at his 33-year tenure in a Manhattan courtroom on Friday, when he began testifying in a civil corruption case that the New York attorney general brought against him.
Mr. LaPierre has been accused of using the nonprofit organization’s resources to bankroll an extravagant lifestyle and of presiding over a scheme to hide what he was doing.
On Friday, the attorney general’s office presented evidence showing that on one occasion, chartered flights Mr. LaPierre and his family took to a large luxury yacht, Illusions, cost the gun rights organization nearly $38,000. The yacht’s owners were David and Laura McKenzie, N.R.A. vendors with lucrative contracts who hosted the LaPierres during many summer excursions to the Bahamas and on travel around the world.
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