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LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Nevada justice of the peace who ran unsuccessfully for state treasurer in 2022 has been indicted on federal charges alleging she used money donated for a memorial to slain police officers for political campaign costs, rent and her daughter’s wedding.
Michele Fiore, 53, a justice of the peace in rural Pahrump and a state Republican National Committee member, declined comment Wednesday about the five-count indictment filed a day earlier in U.S. District Court in Las Vegas.
always the best peopleThe grand jury was told that when Fiore was a city council member from 2017 to 2022, she promised to use 100% of the contributions she solicited to erect a statue in a city park to honor two Las Vegas police officers who were killed on duty in June 2014.
“Fiore did not use any of the tens of thousands of dollars in charitable donations for the statue, and instead converted the money to her personal use," prosecutors said in a news release.
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