Thursday, April 24, 2025

Nevada politician guilty of using $70,000 meant for statue of slain officer for personal costs MICHELLE FIORE PARDONED BY TRUMP!


TRUMP LOVES TO PARDONING CONVICTED CRIMINALS! 



Nevada politician guilty of using $70,000 meant for statue of slain officer for personal costs


LAS VEGAS (AP) — A Nevada Republican politician who ran unsuccessfully two years ago for state treasurer was found guilty Thursday of using funds raised for a statue honoring a slain police officer for personal costs, including plastic surgery.

A jury convicted Michele Fiore, a former Las Vegas city councilwoman and state lawmaker, of six counts of federal wire fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, KLAS-TV in Las Vegas reported. The weeklong trial in U.S. District Court in Nevada began last week.

Each count carries a possible penalty of 20 years in prison. Fiore, who has been suspended without pay from her current elected position as a justice of the peace in rural Pahrump, Nevada, will be sentenced Jan. 6. She will remain free while she awaits sentencing.

Her attorney, Michael Sanft, said Fiore will appeal the conviction.

Federal prosecutors said at trial that Fiore had raised more than $70,000 for the statue of a Las Vegas police officer shot and killed in 2014 in the line of duty, but instead spent the money on plastic surgery, rent and her daughter’s wedding.

“Michele Fiore used a tragedy to line her pockets,” federal prosecutor Dahoud Askar said.

FBI agents in 2021 subpoenaed records and searched Fiore’s home in northwest Las Vegas in connection with her campaign spending. Sanft told the jury that the FBI’s investigation was “sloppy.”

Fiore, who does not have a law degree, was appointed as a judge in deep-red Nye County in 2022 shortly after she lost her campaign for state treasurer. She was elected in June to complete the unexpired term of a judge who died. Pahrump is an hour’s drive west of Las Vegas.

The 54-year-old served in the state Legislature from 2012 to 2016, making headlines posing with guns and her family for Christmas cards. She was a Las Vegas councilwoman from 2017 to 2022.


AP NEVADA CONVICTION














Ron DeSantis BUSTED Sending $10 Million In Medicaid Money To His Wife’s Charity

 


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Florida Governor Ron DeSantis is in hot water this week after it was revealed that he diverted $10 million in Medicaid funds to a charity that is run by his wife, Casey. The funds were part of a “refund” that a contractor gave back to the state after they had been found to have been overcharging Medicaid, and the money should have gone right back to the state’s insurance fund for low-income residents. This scandal has the potential to destroy both DeSantis’ future political ambitions, as Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins explains.   Link – https://www.rawstory.com/casey-desant... Subscribe to stay connected to our stories:    / theringoffire   Support us by becoming a member on YouTube:    / @theringoffire   Or Support us on Patreon:   / theringoffire   Buy Ring of Fire merch: https://www.buyrof.com/ Find us on social media! Facebook:   / ringoffireradio   Twitter:   / ringoffiremedia   Instagram:   / ringoffirenetwork   TikTok:   / ringoffiremedia   *This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos. A massive scandal has erupted here in the state of Florida involving our Republican governor, Ron DeSantis and his wife Casey DeSantis. And of course, the national media is pretty much completely ignoring this story that was first reported by the Miami Herald, even though this story does have national implications due to the fact that Ron DeSantis wants to run for president again, and Casey DeSantis wants to run for Governor of Florida. But here is what happened. Let me read this to you. Lawyers working with the state of Florida drafted a settlement agreement that said Florida's largest Medicaid contractor Centene had overbuild taxpayers more than $67 million for medications according to a copy of that document obtained by the Miami Herald and Times. But instead of returning all of that to state and federal taxpayers, the administration sent 10 million to the Hope Florida Foundation, which is a nonprofit charity run by Casey DeSantis, the wife of the Florida Governor. So Centene overbuild us, the taxpayers $67 million through the Medicaid program here in the state of Florida. So our money, my money was taken by this company inappropriately in the form of our tax dollars. They copped to it and said, all right, we give you 67 million back. And Rhonda Santa said, you know what? Um, why don't you give us 57 million and uh, give 10 million over to this charity that my wife runs. In fact, the 10 million was not necessarily just to that charity. It was actually split between two charities, and then the scandal gets even deeper because those two charities are not required to report how their money is spent. And then they both made a combined eight and a half million dollar donation to Ron DeSantis Super pac. So you would reach this settlement with a company that screwed over your own taxpayers, your state, and instead of giving all the money back to the state, you gave it to the charities who then funneled it looking like money laundering to your own super pac. If this isn't criminal, then I don't know what is. And another little interesting wrinkle of this story. Do you know who started asking questions about this first and who helped uncover it? None other than my good old friend, local representative, Alex Andrati, for those of you who are familiar with that event that happened several years ago, you know, Andrati and I do not have much love for one another, but credit where credit is due. He started looking at this, he started asking the questions. Miami Herald, I guess started looking into it too after that, and boom, now we got a massive scandal. So again, full credit and kudos to Alex Andrati. Absolutely good work on this. But this needs to be further, like now we need hearings. Now we need the criminal investigation. This cannot stand again. This involves two people at the highest level in the state of Florida, one of whom wants to run for president, the other wants to run for governor. This needs to be fleshed out and the national media needs to start paying attention to this.


Florida elected RICK SCOTT who presided over the greatest MEDICAID FRAUD IN HISTORY & enriched himself.

The list of FLORIDA SLEAZE, SLIME & FAILURE to elect candidates that work for constituents or FLORDIANS is endless...... Who questioned DESANTIS presidential campaign expenditures at taxpayer expense? DESANTIS dumped 'migrants' from TEXAS in MARTHA'S VINEYARD Massachusetts - OFFSEASON when most facilities were closed for the season. The legislature never addressed the CONDO COLLAPSE. HOMEOWNERS INSURANCE? How about the overflowing radioactive pits? How about agricultural runoff destroying the GULF & what is FLORIDA doing to PROTECT MANATEES? FLORIDA outlawed 'undocumented MIGRANTS" now has a LABOR SHORTAGE so proposes exploiting CHILDREN to fill the GAP? Maybe it's time for FLORIDA VOTERS to inform themselves & elect LAW ABIDING OFFICIALS.


ALABAMA: YOU CAN DO BETTER!

 

FROM RON FILIPKOWSKI:

… Tommy Tuberville announced that he will be leaving the Senate next year to run for Governor of Alabama.

… From Yellowhammer: “Back in state while Congress is in recess, Tuberville told a group of donors at a private event on Wed night that his mind is officially made up. Rather than seeking re-election to the Senate, he is ready to run his next race in AL, and serve the people of the state in Montgomery instead of Washington. An official campaign announcement is imminent in the coming weeks. Tuberville has been privately discussing jumping into the 2026 gubernatorial race for quite some time.”


ALABAMA: You made a mistake once electing this CLOWN maybe because of NAME-RECOGNITION.... 

TUPPERWARE does not own property in ALABAMA! 

 

Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville no longer owns property in the state he represents, report says

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Today in Politics, Bulletin 117. 4/24/25


GEORGE SANTOS .....& ELISE STEFANIK.....

 

ELISE STEFANIK promoted GEORGE SANTOS & ignored the widely available PUBLIC 

INFORMATION....she's mad at GEORGE SANTOS for her own STUPIDITY? 

WHEN WILL REPUBLICAN DONORS & REPUBLICANS THINK?

LOCAL REPUBLICANS NEVER ASKED BASIC QUESTIONS, NEVER QUESTIONED 

EMPLOYMENT, NEVER QUESTIONED THE NUMEROUS LIES SANTOS SPEWED... 

THE PROBLEM WITH REPUBLICANS IS THEY FAIL TO QUESTIONS & BELIEVE THE 

LIES THAT SURROUND THEM....

YOU GOT BURNED DUE TO YOUR OWN STUPIDITY! 

"R" VOTERS ARE CONSPICUOUSLY UNINFORMED ACROSS THE NATION & REFUSE 

TO SCRUTINIZE CANDIDATES! 


FROM RON FILIPKOWSKI....


… Disgraced former Republican Rep. George Santos has his sentencing tomorrow, and things aren’t looking good for the serial fraudster. He spoke to the NYT about it: “Right now, my expectation is I’m going to prison for 87 months. I’m totally resigned.”

… The government is asking for 87 months in prison, which is what Santos’s sentencing guidelines recommends. Santos is asking for 24 months, which is the minimum mandatory sentence allowed by law.

… The Times said his false public bravado is gone and Santos seemed depressed and dejected after not hearing from Trump on a pardon: “I came to this world alone. I will deal with it alone, and I will go out alone.”

… I believe that Elise Stefanik is blocking a Santos pardon from Trump. She hates him because she called all her biggest donors to vouch for Santos when questions were being raised about his shady background. She wanted to win that seat so bad and she got burned when the full truth came out. They opened up their checkbooks despite their concerns because of Stefanik, and they all got defrauded.

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