A jury convicted Pahrump Justice of the Peace Michele Fiore on all counts in a federal wire fraud case on Thursday.
Fiore, currently suspended from her Pahrump duties, was charged with one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and six counts of wire fraud. Each count carries a maximum sentence of 20 years. She appeared more subdued after the verdicts were read in the courtroom.
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Fiore is accused of raising more than $70,000 for a statue to remember Las Vegas Metro Police Officer Alyn Beck, but then spending the money on personal expenses. Beck and Officer Igor Soldo were killed in the line of duty in 2014.
“Michele Fiore used a tragedy to line her pockets,” [federal prosecutor Dahoud] Askar told the jury.
An executive with Olympia Companies, a major developer, had testified the company paid for the statue in its entirety and Fiore would have known this.
Pretty ballsy to raise money for something that somebody else is paying for and then steal all of it.
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