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Trump Pardons Outrageous Michele Fiore [1]

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Date: 2025-04-27

GOP Politician Michele Fiore– A “Law and Order” Police Supporter (NOT) Pardoned by Donald April 27, 2025

One of the GOP’s major talking points, at least since the time of Richard Nixon, is its yammering non-stop about being the party of “law and order.” Republicans ridiculously claim that they are the ones who always support the men/women in our police forces while the Democrats are “soft on crime.” And Demagogue/Dictator wannabe Donald shows how much he truly cares about “supporting” our police. In addition to tearing down just about all the guardrails of our democracy, he is now making a farce of the pardon process as well. On April 23, 2025, Donald pardoned Nevada Republican politician Michele Fiore (54), less than a week after she lost her bid for a new trial and prior to her sentencing. She had been facing the possibility of decades in prison. A Nevada federal jury convicted her of six counts of wire fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud. At trial, federal prosecutors said that Fiore had raised more than $70,000 for the statue of a Las Vegas police officer who had been fatally shot in the line of duty in 2014. However, Fiore spent some of the money she raised on cosmetic surgery, rent, and for her daughter’s wedding. https://apnews.com/article/trump-pardon-michele-fiore-nevada-fraud-cf56ef8b302b8111e47cf52d5a606d19

New York City native Michele Fiore moved to blood– “Red” Nye County, Nevada after narrowly losing her race for Nevada State Treasurer in 2022 Prior to that race, Fiore had served two terms in the Nevada State Assembly from 2012-2016. Running for a second term in 2014, she clobbered her Democratic opponent by a 25% margin. In 2016, Fiore gave up her assembly seat and unsuccessfully ran in the primary for the open 3rd Congressional district (CD). In 2017, Fiore successfully won a race for City Council in Ward 6 in northwestern Las Vegas, about half of which overlapped her old assembly district. She was named mayor pro tem of the City Council on July 3, 2019.

https://www.ktnv.com/news/michele-fiore-named-mayor-pro-tem-for-las-vegas

Fiore is currently Nevada Republican Party national committeewoman responsible for fundraising in Nevada. Fiore, a non-lawyer, is justice of the peace for the city of Pahrump in Nye County.

https://www.enwikipedia.org/wiki/Michele-Fiore

At a 2020 June 6, Clark County, Nevada GOP convention, Fiore was accused of having made “racially charged remarks.” She was criticized in a statement by the Clark County Republican Party for those statements. https:// www.enwikipedia.org/wiki/Michele-Fiore

And where does Michele Fiore stand on the major issues facing us? Fiore is a strong supporter of gun rights. In her 2015 Christmas card, she showed her family holding guns. In the Assembly, she sponsored a bill allowing concealed firearms on the campuses of colleges and grade schools and in day care facilities.

https://lasvegassun.com/news/2015/mar/05/fiore-defends-campus-on-carry%20-bill-against-nyc-anti-g/

Fiore also defended militants including Cliven Bundy who were resisting federal agents. The Nevada Association of Public Safety Officers even sent a letter denouncing Fiore’s statements on this matter. They called her an “embarrassment to her district.”

http://www.reviewjournal.com/politics/elections/law-enforcement-group-tells-michele-fiore-she-s-unqualified%20-congress

And there is more. In December, 2014, it was reported that the IRS (Internal Revenue Service) had filed dozens of liens totalling about $1million against Fiore and her home health care businesses, Always There 4 You and Always There for Personal Care. The liens against the businesses involved unpaid employee payroll taxes. Fiore blamed her ex-husband and a former employee. http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/dec/16/assemblywoman-fiore-to-address-reported-tax-liens/

On November 3, 2015, the Nevada Department of Health and Human Services’s Bureau of Health Care Quality and Compliance (HCQC) voided Fiore’s license to operate Always There 4 You. Always There 4 You and another Fiore-owned home health care service, Always There Personal Care, received about $6 million (net) in Medicaid reimbursements between 2011 and March 2015. Although in Nevada an unannounced inspection of such companies’ business records is required to be completed every 18 months, in 2013 and 2015, health inspectors were blocked several times from reviewing Always There 4 You’s records. They were denied access by Fiore, her mother, and their office staff. http://lasvegassun.com/news/2015/jul/24/state-assemblywoman-michele-fiore-blocked-inspecto/

Michele Fiore constitutes just the kind of person Trump would pardon. Days after the January 6, 2021 U.S. Capitol riot, Fiore attended the Republican National Committee’s winter meeting on Amelia Island, Florida. At that meeting, she told the New York Times, “I surely embrace President Trump.” https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/08/us/politics/trump-republican-national-committee.html

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