LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — The Nevada Fee on Judicial Self-discipline will maintain a listening to Friday to find out the way forward for Nye County Justice Courtroom choose Michele Fiore, the disgraced politician pardoned by President Trump after a jury discovered her responsible of utilizing fundraising cash to pay for her personal lease, beauty procedures and a daughter’s marriage ceremony.
“At this hearing, the Commission will determine whether its Suspension Order, entered April 14, 2025, is still warranted following the presidential pardon and, if not, to determine whether Respondent poses a substantial threat of serious harm to the public or to the administration of justice,” the Fee wrote Friday.
Fiore, suspended in July 2024 from her place as justice court docket choose in Pahrump, requested the federal court docket to grant her both an acquittal or a brand new trial after a jury deliberated for 2 hours and convicted her on one depend of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and 6 counts of wire fraud in October 2024.
The court docket denied that request, saying her claims of ineffective help of counsel and inadequate proof to convict her weren’t sufficient to undo the jury’s verdict, which took two hours to achieve.
“In sum, Fiore’s attempts to set aside the jury’s verdicts are unavailing,” federal court docket choose Jennifer Dorsey wrote in her opinion.
Fiore additionally argued in her movement that her trial lawyer was ineffective, and that the trial choose ought to have stricken controversial testimony from Fiore’s daughter, Sheena Siegel. Siegel finally testified in court docket, invoking her constitutional proper to not incriminate herself for any position she may need performed in Fiore’s legal wrongdoing.
Fiore promised a return to the bench on Monday, April 28, within the rapid aftermath of the presidential pardon however didn’t seem, telling the 8 Information Now Investigators, who attended court docket that morning in Pahrump, that she would return to the bench “once the procedural formalities are concluded.”
Friday’s listening to, it appears, can be amongst these formalities to which Fiore referred in her message.
Her pardon allowed her to take a digital victory lap, which Fiore did on social media and in a press release — and additional communication and criticism — to the information media.
“When the facts don’t fit their narrative, they simply ignore them,” Fiore stated of reports reporters in a textual content message to the 8 Information Now Investigators, claiming she was by no means convicted. “That’s exactly why I no longer trust the press to tell the truth.”
Fiore was charged with — and a jury discovered her responsible of — wire fraud for elevating cash for statues for the fallen officers, and a number of the high-profile residents from whom she collected donations had been Native 872 union boss Tommy White and Republican Gov. Joe Lombardo, each of whom testified at trial.
