LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Suspended Nye County magistrate Michele Fiore, the one-time state legislator and controversial Las Vegas metropolis councilwoman, instructed the 8 Information Now Investigators on Friday that President Donald Trump pardoned a federal jury’s responsible verdict on wire fraud prices as a result of it was a “fake case.”
In October 2024, a jury convicted Fiore, suspended in July 2024 from her place as justice courtroom decide in Nye County, after deliberating for 2 hours. The panel convicted her on one depend of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and 6 counts of wire fraud for taking cash meant for fallen law enforcement officials’ memorials and spending it on herself. Fiore denies she was convicted, technically talking, and maintains she was by no means sentenced and the courtroom by no means entered a judgment of conviction.
In her first televised feedback for the reason that Presidential pardon, Fiore, in an impromptu on-camera dialog exterior of an AM radio station the place she accomplished an hour-long interview, denied stealing charitable donations to pay for her daughter’s marriage ceremony. However federal prosecutors satisfied a jury she did simply that, with cash she stated she was elevating for the officers’ statues.
“It was a fake case, and the government knew it,” Fiore instructed the 8 Information Now Investigators on Friday. Fiore then obtained behind the wheel of her pick-up truck and closed the door, ending the interview.
Former Las Vegas Metropolis Councilwoman Michele Fiore. (Bizuayehu Tesfaye/Las Vegas Evaluate-Journal/Tribune Information Service by way of Getty Photographs)
However her dialog with well-known Las Vegas political marketing consultant Tom Letizia, broadcast Friday morning, allowed Fiore to inform a few of her story. Fiore has lengthy criticized the media for its dealing with of her federal trial and its aftermath as unfair and inaccurate.
Explaining her response to Trump’s pardon, Fiore instructed Letizia she cried for 40 minutes.
“I just started crying because, you know, knowing what I was going through. No 1, for some reason, people think I have President Donald J. Trump on speed dial. I do not.”
The Nevada Fee on Judicial Self-discipline, which suspended Fiore with pay when she was indicted on the federal wire fraud prices, revoked her pay after her conviction. Earlier this week, in a written submitting, it reinstated her pay however upheld her suspension.
“I don’t know what happened behind the scenes with the judicial commission, but I do know that they are dragging their feet,” Fiore stated on Letizia’s radio present, “The Middle Ground.” “And they do know that what’s happening right now is not right or ethical or legal. It’s an abuse of their authority.”
In its choice, the fee stated the allegations in opposition to Fiore current “a substantial threat of serious harm to the public and to the administration of justice.”
On Thursday, Fiore appealed that call to the Nevada Supreme Courtroom.
First elected as a Republican Nevada assemblywoman in 2012, Fiore later served as Las Vegas mayor professional tem and unsuccessfully ran for governor and treasurer as a Republican. Nye County Commissioners appointed her to her judgeship in late 2022. Final June, earlier than her indictment, voters re-elected Fiore, who isn’t an legal professional, to that place.
