Steven Church
Tue, March 30, 2021, 3:14 PM·4 min read
(Bloomberg) -- Fraud allegations against the National Rifle Association should be investigated by a bankruptcy examiner before the group is allowed to reorganize, a director for the organization argued in an unusual request to the federal court overseeing the case.
Phillip Journey, a Kansas judge and former state legislator, asked a Texas bankruptcy judge to appoint an independent investigator to determine the truth of claims made by New York regulators in a lawsuit.
“Former and current board members have grave concerns about the overall propriety and oversight that the NRA’s board used to exercise,” Journey said in the filing Monday. The board of directors “to this day, has reduced its role to merely that as a ‘figure head.
Journey served on the NRA’s board of directors from 1995 to 1998, according to the filing. Journey is currently serving a new term on the board of directors, he said in later court filing. He also spent more than 20 years on the Kansas State Rifle Association’s board."
