By MICHAEL R. SISAK, LARRY NEUMEISTER and LISA MARIE PANE
NEW YORK (AP) — New York’s attorney general is suing the National Rifle Association, seeking to put the powerful gun advocacy organization out of business with claims that top executives diverted millions of dollars to themselves and their friends. The lawsuit filed Thursday by Attorney General Letitia James followed an 18-month investigation into the NRA, a nonprofit group originally chartered in New York. She accused its top leaders of using NRA funds for lavish personal trips, lucrative contracts for associates and other questionable expenditures. The NRA president called the suit a “baseless attack” on Second Amendment rights.
