Oliver North, the president of the NRA, has asked its longtime leader and chief executive, Wayne LaPierre, to step down amid challenges surrounding the organization's fundraising and nonprofit status, the New York Times reported.
installed as NRA president almost one year agoLaPierre responded with a letter, quoted by the Times, addressed to the NRA's board. It alleges North has threatened to leak damaging information about LaPierre unless he resigns.
"Yesterday evening, I was forced to confront one of those defining choices — styled, in the parlance of extortionists — as an offer I couldn’t refuse," the letter reads, according to the Times."I refused it.", created a committee to investigate alleged financial improprieties at the NRA.
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