LAS VEGAS (FOX5) — The Nevada Commission on Judicial Discipline has filed formal charges against Michele Fiore, according to court documents published last month.
Fiore was suspended from her judicial seat in Pahrump last year as the commission announced that it would be investigating her conduct related to the misuse of funds solicited for a fallen officer memorial.
In October 2024, a Clark County jury found her guilty of wire fraud for using the funds for personal expenditures and failing to return the money to donors.
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President Donald Trump issued a pardon for Fiore in April 2025.
The commission maintained that the pardon did not affect their investigation, since she had a legal duty to return the misused funds to donors.
Fiore then appealed the suspension to the Nevada Supreme Court, arguing that the commission’s investigation took place before Fiore was elected to her seat, which is outside of it’s jurisdiction.
Last month, the Nevada Supreme Court upheld the decision to suspend Fiore with pay after determining her claim was “without merit.”
A few weeks later, the commission filed its charges against Fiore, highlighting how her misuse of the funds violated the Revised Nevada Judicial Code of Conduct on three counts.
All three counts reinforce that Fiore had a legal obligation to notify the donors that the statue could not be built, and either return the funds or ask if they could be used for an alternate purpose.
The charging document reads, in part, “Judge Fiore’s action constitute either knowing or deliberate violations of the Code or violations that were not knowing or deliberate.
Both types of violations are contrary to the form, force and effect of the Revised Nevada Code of Judicial Conduct.”
Fiore has also filed for re-election earlier this year, despite the suspension.
Michele Fiore issued a statement to FOX5 reiterating that the charges are “recycled accusations” that predate her time on the bench and pose “serious jurisdictional issues under Nevada law”.
“Yet here we are more than a year later, in the middle of my re-election campaign, and the Commission continues advancing the same allegations,” her statement read, in part.
She continued, “Our response will address what we believe to be significant jurisdictional, procedural, and due process concerns, including the ongoing use of the disciplinary process in a manner that continues to directly impact an active judicial election.”
FOX5 has also reached out to the commission to learn more about what’s next.
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