#good for n.d. wilson for releasing it on his own

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WHAT DO YOU MEAN THERE WAS ANOTHER BOOK BUT IT GOT CANCELLED???

Girl help I just finished the last Ashtown Burials book and I am Not Okay

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so i recognize that this is. a lot. but,,,, 6, 8, 14, 22, 25, 28, 33, 35, 37, 50, 55, 60, 63, 66, 69, 77, 86, 91, 104, and 122? :)

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Oh thank you, this is a gift

Okay, here we go!

6 (a book with a pink cover) : I'm gonna cheat a bit because only part of the cover is pink but Wild Beauty by Anna Marie McLemore is one of my FAVORITE books, so I don't mind bending the rules. Five bisexual latina cousins all crushing on the same girl, magical realism, and a very good application of social messaging to the themes. I won't say more than that, but really go give it a look!! also my copy is signed Viva México by the author so that makes me love it more

8 (a book you finished in one sitting) : Okay, a couple years ago when Tiamat's Wrath by James S. A. Corey (book 8 of the Expanse series) came out, I started reading it at breakfast in the dining hall, continued during basically all of my classes, and then finished it sometime around 10 or 11 that night (I think). For reference, a quick google tells me that book is about 166,500 words. And I loved EVERY minute of it!

14 (a book that made you trip on literary acid) : Okay, that has definitely got to be Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir. Just. All Of It. God, she does some really fantastic things with narrative mechanics in that book, plus just the sheer brilliance of the plot and the mountain of questions and theories I had once I finished it. Also the memes. The memes made me trip literary acid.

22 (your favorite thriller) : Okay, I think I've literally only read one thriller (if it counts, I'm not sure), but The Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo. I'm cheating since it's still fantasy, but I had a limited pool of options.

25 (a book by your favorite author) : Okay, so I tend to like books or series more than author's specifically easier to like a work of fiction than a person but I'm gonna go with The Hobbit by J.R.R Tolkien. I grew up reading his books and I've definitely taken a lot from his writing for my own style, and I still love the Hobbit.

28 (a book you wish you could read as a beginner again) : Oooh this is a really interesting one. I think I'd say Museum of Thieves by Lian Tanner. I can’t remember when I first read it but it’s a middle grade story all about defying authority and escaping corrupt systems. I really need to reread it at some point.

33 (a book with a white cover) : The Weight of Feathers by Anna Marie McLemore! (can you tell I like their writing?). Star crossed lovers of two performing families with magical realism threaded through the narrative! Really fun read and I always appreciate latine characters. There's also Roma representation as well!

35 (a book featuring the found family trope) : I'm gonna attempt to not read any well beaten paths, so I'll say Caliban's War by James S. A. Corey, the second book of the Expanse series (okay that's technically a well beaten path, sue me). A lot of the book is the main characters figuring out their group dynamic and challenging each other to be better and it's just so goooooood!

37 (your favorite heist book) : I mean, what else could I put here? Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo, hands down. Narrowly beats out Six of Crows, only because it has more cons, more emotions, and also Nikolai Lantsov. I'll never get tired of that book.

50 (a book that made you cry a lot) : oh boy, I could say Crooked Kingdom again, that’d be true. But instead I’ll say Persepolis Rising by James S.A. Corey (I read a lot of series, sue me. Also that series is gonna be 9 books long by the end, there’s a lot of material). Anyway I won’t say why I cried, it’s a spoiler, but oh man. I weeped.

55 (a book with a satisfying ending) : The Empire of Gold by S.A. Chakraborty! I really liked how it ended, it placed a lot of focus on the platonic relationships, it left a lot of plot open ended so it felt like the world was still alive, and it showed the main character as being in a position of power while still retaining the subversive and roguish qualities from the start of the series that I loved.

60 (a book that you think about at 3am) : The Empire of Bones by N.D. Wilson. This is the 3rd book in my favorite series, the Ashtown burials and just….. wow there is so much. It has so much depth to it while still being about a 13 year old standing up to a cadre of ancient death and pain gods. It has one of the most beautiful monologues I’ve ever read and that shaped my understanding of compassion and heroism. It has an orange mohakwed Irish monk.

63 (a book that actually made you laugh out loud) : I knew it would make it on the list somewhere but GIDEON THE NINTH BY TAMSYN MUIR. God this book was funny! I won’t spoil any of the jokes, but Gideon is a sarcastic little shit and I love all of her banter with Harrow and the rest of the characters get plenty of cracks in as well.

66 (a book that fucked you up) : oh boy The Lies of Locke Lamora by Scott Lynch. This book had some visceral shit in it. Like, not exactly in a bad way, its not a game of thrones situation, but stuff that made my fucking skin crawl. Very good book, I heartily recommend.

69 (your favorite mythological retelling) : I’m gonna go with Odd and the Frost Giants by Neil Gaiman. I first listened to it in audiobook form while on a road trip through the southwest and I really like coming back to it. Sort of reworks the original myth it borrows from, but in a really delightful and fun way.

77 (a book so useless you could use it as a coaster) : ATLAS SHRUGGED BY AYN RAND. Alright, I’ll be honest, I have not yet read this book. I probably will someday just to see how bad it really is. But from what I know about it I would rather get drop kicked off a roof than read that pile of self important, self centered ego circle jerking. In conclusion, I don’t like it.

86 (a book with an insane plot twist) : Okay a bunch of the really insane plot twisty ones I’ve already mentioned and I don’t want to do repeats, so I’m gonna bend the rules and say The Silent Bells by N.D. Wilson, fourth book of the Ashtown Burials series, a book that is not technically finished yet, it is being released serially in this really cool faux newspaper format. The plot twist is that this story ever got off the ground, because due to legal and publisher shenanigans the author wasn’t able to publish the book until 7 or 8 years after the last book came out. But he did! And I’m very happy!

91 (the shortest book you've read) : That would probably be Signs Preceding the End of the World by Yuri Herrera, translated by Lisa Dillman. It’s a really good book I read for an English class about a girl who crosses the US/Mexico border in search of her brother. It’s got a really interesting narrative style that I wasn’t used to and a really cool thematic structure related to the nahuatl journey to the underworld.

104 (a fluffy sweet read) : oh man, that’s tough, I don’t read a lot of fluffy things, even tho it’s what I prefer in my romances. Yeah, the closest I can get is Wild Beauty by Anna Marie McLemore again. (See the first question answered)

122 (your favorite winter read) : Hmmm I don’t necessarily have seasonal reads, but I’ll go with an old family classic The Christmas Mystery, which is about a boy who finds an advent calendar with little scraps of paper behind each door, telling the story of a little girl who in the process of chasing a lamb runs away to Bethlehem (and back in time) to the birth of Jesus, meeting angels and Shepards and other biblical figures. It’s a really sweet story and my family used to read each chapter every day of advent until Christmas Eve.

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New York Lawsuit Against NRA Examines Non-Profit Board Member Spending Of Charitable Funds

By Rosaura Ritger, American University Class of 2021

September 10, 2020

FILED August 6, 2020. New York State Attorney General Letitia James submits summons and complaint against the National Rifle Association of America.

AG James released a lengthy 166-page case against the NRA where she argues on behalf of the 501(c)4 organization based in New York State. James accuses four individual defendants – all NRA executives – of various violations of NRA internal bylaws, NY laws, and federal law. The defendants named in this summons are CEO Wayne LaPierre, former treasurer and CFO Wilson ‘Woody’ Phillips, Chief of Staff and Executive VP of Operations Joshua Powell, and NRA General Counsel John Frazer. LaPierre is also held responsible in this summons for the organization as a whole due to his position as CEO. [1]

As disclosed in James’s preliminary statement, the primary complaint reads:

“With the assistance of Phillips, Powell, and Frazer, LaPierre abused his position as a fiduciary to the NRA to obtain millions of dollars in personal benefits in the form of undisclosed, excessive compensation, which includes in-kind benefits and reimbursements from the NRA and its vendors.” [2]

Due to the location of the NRA’s incorporation as a charitable organization in 1871 being in the state of New York, the organization is subject to state laws relating to the governance of charitable non-profit organizations which conduct business and solicit donations in that state. The Attorney General seeks judgement in regard to the New York Not-For-Profit Corporation Law (N-PCL)[3], the Estates Powers and Trusts Law (EPTL)[4], NY Prudent Management of Institutional Funds Act (NYPMIFA)[5] and Executive Law (Exec Law)[6]. The remedies proposed by the AG as a result of the violations presented would result in the dissolution of the NRA in the State of New York in the interest of the public, the removal of LaPierre as “director and as Executive Vice President of the NRA,”[2] the removal of Frazer as “a director and Secretary of the NRA,” and preventing the ‘Individual Defendants’ from ever serving as a director or officer in the “capacity as a fiduciary of any not-for-profit or charitable organization incorporated or authorized to conduct business in the State of New York,… .” It does not stop there. Attorney General James also requests remedies in the form of documentation of the NRA’s institutional funds and management of said funds as well as the restitution from the aforementioned defendants of “illegal, unauthorized or ultra vires compensation, reimbursements, benefits or amounts unjustly paid to the Individual Defendants.”[2]

The Attorney General’s investigation into the National Rifle Association of America has been ongoing since early 2019 [7] and focuses on the internal governance of the registered charitable organization. According to the New York State N-PCL laws, a charitable organization registered in that state that violates their own internal bylaws is also in breach of the N-PCL of the state of New York, giving the Attorney General jurisdiction to prosecute in the interest of the public. And that is exactly what AG James has done.

In the summons, James points out the five objectives expressed in the NRA’s bylaws:

“a. ‘To protect and defend the Constitution of the United States, especially with reference to the God-given inalienable right of the individual American citizen guaranteed by such Constitution to acquire, possess, collect, exhibit, transport, carry, transfer ownership of, and enjoy the right to use, keep and bear arms, in order that the people may exercise their individual rights of self-preservation and defense of family, person, and property, and to serve in the militia of law-abiding men and women for the defense of the Republic and the individual liberty of the citizens of our communities, our states, and our great nation;

b. To promote public safety, law and order, and the national defense;

c. To train members of law enforcement agencies, the armed forces, the National Guard, the militia, and people of good repute in marksmanship and in the safe handling and efficient use of small arms;

d. To fosters, promote and support the shooting sports, including the advancement of amateur and junior competitions in marksmanship at the local, state, regional, national, international, and Olympic levels; and

e. To promote hunter safety, and to promote and defend hunting as a shooting sport, for subsistence, and as a viable and necessary method of fostering the propagation, growth and conservation, and wise use of our renewable wildlife resources.’” [2]These objectives, among other mentioned internal bylaws, are the basis for Attorney General James’ argument. In her investigation, she references back several years to financial reports and procedures taken – or the lack thereof – as well as personal spending done by the ‘Individual Defendants’ that do not follow these objectives as is required in the NRA’s travel and business expense reimbursement policy. Further bylaws about audit and compensation committee procedures [2] are outlined and referenced in the summons pursuant to the improper spending allegations.

Specifically, evidence against defendant and Executive VP Wayne LaPierre goes all the way back to the ‘90s when he hired other named defendant, Wilson ‘Woody’ Phillips. LaPierre is accused of having abused his power as Executive VP, along with those named defendants, to misuse institutional funds for self-dealing as well as creating a “culture of…mismanagement, and negligent oversight at the NRA.” [2]

Among this evidence, there are several occasions and mentions of his improper spending and reimbursement activities that were “entirely for [his] personal benefit and violated NRA policy.” LaPierre consistently requested reimbursement for travel expenses for him and his family to fly by private aircraft, even when he himself was not a passenger. According to testimony, LaPierre argued the private flights were for security reasons, although he could not name any specific security issues amounting to the need for such expensive flights. He also argued that it was “’probably easier to fly private, more convenient,” when asked about a particular flight booked for his wife to fly alone from Wisconsin to Nebraska which cost more than $8,800 [2]. In the NRA bylaws regarding proper reimbursement for travel and business expenses, the policy says to “’incur the lowest practical and reasonable expense while completing the travel process in an efficient and timely manner,’” and that the expenses must be related to business or in their words, ‘”necessary to meet organizational objectives,’” which are the five objectives quoted above. It further states that those traveling and incurring these expenses are expected to “’use the same care…that a prudent person would use while traveling for personal reasons, considering the purpose and amount of the expenditure.’” [2] In this example, LaPierre approved some of these flights and the reimbursements while none of them were approved for security reasons or even approved by the NRA board as per their bylaws for spending. The summons and complaint issued by Attorney General James goes much further into all of LaPierre’s expenditures and mismanagement of the other named defendants as well as their own individual violations of NRA bylaws in regard to each of their duties as board members.

In opposition of the complaint filed, the NRA responded and cited a legal technicality to void the suit against them. [8] In this response the NRA claims that the initial complaint was “’served without sufficient verification,’” and pursuant to CPLR 3022 the adverse party – the NRA – may treat such an ‘unverified pleading’ as a ‘nullity.’ [9]

However, the NRA Foundation – the 501(c)(3) arm of the NRA – has also been sued by the District Attorney of Washington D.C., Karl Racine, for the misuse of charitable funds following his own lengthy investigation. [10] [11]

As of right now, there have been no updates in regard to this and several news outlets have attempted to analyze what the next move will look like. Regardless of what specific legal technicality or law is cited next, this is sure to be a long legal battle that could bring up a big question in how charitable and not-for-profit organizations spend their donations.

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[1] Attorney General James Files Lawsuit to Dissolve NRA. (2020, August 06). Retrieved from https://ag.ny.gov/press-release/2020/attorney-general-james-files-lawsuit-dissolve-nra

[2] Summons, People of the State of New York v. NRA, Inc., LaPierre, Phillips, Frazer, and Powell, Index No. 451625/2020, (Supreme Court of the State of New York County of New York).

[3] New York Consolidated Laws, Not-For-Profit Corporation Law - NPC § 102. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://codes.findlaw.com/ny/notforprofit-corporation-law/npc-sect-102.html. See also §701, 713, 714, 720, 552, 515(a), 112(a)(1), 1101(a)(2), 715(a-b), 623(a).

[4] New York Consolidated Laws, Estates, Powers and Trusts Law - EPT § 8-1.4. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://codes.findlaw.com/ny/estates-powers-and-trusts-law/ept-sect-8-1-4.html

[5] Prudent Management of Institutional Funds Act. (2020, August 01). Retrieved from https://www.nysenate.gov/legislation/laws/NPC/A5-A. See §551(d), 551(e).

[6]New York Consolidated Laws, Executive Law - EXC § 175. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://codes.findlaw.com/ny/executive-law/exc-sect-175.html. See §175(2).

[7] Hakim, D. (2019, December 10). New York Deepens Its Investigation Into the N.R.A. Retrieved from https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/09/us/nra-investigation-new-york.html

[8] Notice of election to treat unverified or defectively verified pleading as a nullity, People ofthe State of New York v. NRA, Inc., LaPierre, Phillips, Frazer, and Powell, Index No.451625/2020, (Supreme Court of the State of New York County of New York).

[9] New York Consolidated Laws, Civil Practice Law and Rules - CVP NY CPLR Rule 3022. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://codes.findlaw.com/ny/civil-practice-law-and-rules/cvpny-cplr-rule-3022.html

[10] Pagones, S. (2020, August 06). NRA fights back, files its own suit against NY attorney general seeking to disband organization. Retrieved from https://www.foxnews.com/us/nra-lawsuit-ny-attorney-general-lawsuit

[11] Budryk, Z. (2020, August 06). DC sues the NRA Foundation for alleged misused funds. Retrieved from https://thehill.com/regulation/court-battles/510902-dc-sues-the-national-rifle-association-foundation-for-alleged

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