LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Pahrump choose and former Las Vegas Metropolis Councilwoman Michele Fiore will stay suspended from the bench after receiving a presidential pardon, for now.
Final month, President Donald Trump pardoned Fiore, a Nye County magistrate, after a jury convicted her of taking cash meant for fallen law enforcement officials’ memorials and spending it on herself. The jury deliberated for 2 hours, convicting her in federal courtroom on one depend of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and 6 counts of wire fraud.
Following Fiore’s federal indictment final July, the Nevada Fee on Judicial Self-discipline suspended her from workplace with pay amid the proceedings. The fee later suspended her with out pay after her conviction. The fee held a listening to on Friday, Might 9, following the pardon to debate its subsequent steps.
In an order filed Monday, the fee stored Fiore suspended pending a closing overview, citing the allegations towards Fiore as “a substantial threat of serious harm to the public and to the administration of justice.” Fiore shall be suspended this time with pay.
The order notes the fee “has received additional complaints against [Fiore]” because the pardon. There was no indication within the doc filed Monday when the fee might full its investigation.
“When does this end?” Paola Armeni, Fiore’s legal professional, stated in the course of the Might 9 listening to. Armeni added the fee solely has jurisdiction over a choose’s actions as a sitting choose.
“The commission can no longer issue, rescind, and reinstate based on this conviction, based on the pardon,’ Armeni said. “There is nothing before this commission about her conduct as a judge, nothing.”
Trump pardoned Fiore on April 23. 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.
