A former Las Vegas judge will soon find out if she will be jailed until 2165 after she was found guilty of pocketing donations that were supposed to go toward a memorial statue of a slain officer.
A jury convicted Michele Fiore, 54, in October on six counts of wire fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud.
The disgraced Republican will be sentenced on May 14, andcould face up to 140 years in prison - meaning she wouldn't get out until 2165.
Fiore has maintained her innocence and even went on to blame the FBI for coming after her as part of a revenge plot.
The political firebrand, who was backed by the Proud Boys militia, had raised money for a statue ofAlyn Beck, one of two Vegas cops murdered on duty in 2014.
She was then suspended from the benchafter it was found that she spent $70,000 of the money on herself, including for plastic surgery.
Fiore claimed she had been targeted by the FBI for supporting rancher Clive Bundy after he was charged over an armed stand-off between federal agents and militants at Oregon's Malheur Federal Wildlife Refuge in 2016.
'For a decade I've been their target for standing up for what was right,' she wrote in a statement. 'As I go through this distressing and challenging time, fight again, and bring light to the shadows.'
Former Las Vegas judge Michele Fiore (pictured), 54, will soon find out is she will be jailed for up to 140 years after she was convicted of wire fraud charges in October
The political firebrand who was backed by the Proud Boys militia had raised money for a statue of Alyn Beck (pictured), one of two Vegas cops murdered on duty in 2014
The city was outraged when Beck, 41, and his colleague Igor Soldo, 31, were gunned down by a pair of white supremacists as they ate lunch at a pizza restaurant in June 2014.
Fiore was a Las Vegas City councilwoman when she spoke at the opening of a memorial park named after Beck in 2018, and announced she planned to raise money for a statue to the murdered officer.
She then went on to contract a company to create the statue and falsely told it she 'had appropriated discretionary funds through the City of Las Vegas' to pay for it, according to an indictment filed in July 2024.
She set up a charity in July 2019 to solicit donations claiming that '100 percent of the contributions' would go to the cause.
But none of the money was used for the statue and all went directly to bank accounts she controlled, prosecutors said.
'Fiore instructed prospective donors to write a check to a bank account that Fiore controlled at Bank of Nevada,' they claim.
'Fiore directed that money to be spent not for the charitable purpose solicited but for her own personal expenses.'
In 2021, FBI agentssubpoenaed records and searched Fiore's home in northwest Las Vegas in connection with her campaign spending.
Fiore has maintained her innocence and went on to blame the FBI for coming after her as part of a revenge plot. (Fiore with Donald Trump Jr.)
The city was outraged when Beck, 41, and his colleague Igor Soldo (pictured), 31, were gunned down by a pair of white supremacists as they ate lunch at a pizza restaurant in June 2014
Her attorney Michael 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 by lawmakers in 2022 shortly after she lost her campaign for state treasurer.
She was elected in June of that year to complete the unexpired term of a judge who died.
She was a Las Vegas councilwoman from 2017 to 2022 and an outspoken gun rights supporter.
The 54-year-old served in the state Legislature from 2012 to 2016, making headlines posing with guns and her family for Christmas cards.
Fiore's daughters, Sheena and Savanah, featured prominently on a calendar she posed for in 2015 dubbed 'Michele Fiore's 2016 Walk The Talk 2nd Amendment Calendar.'
Andrea Soldo, the wife of slain Officer Igor Soldo, is seen crying at her late husband's funeral after he was shot
The 54-year-old served in the state Legislature from 2012 to 2016, making headlines posing with guns and her family for Christmas cards
That year, she sent out an infamous Christmas card of her family holding pistols and semi-automatics, including her five-year-old grandson Jake who held a Walther p22.
She defended the image saying: 'If you look real close, you'll see that his finger is not on the trigger.
'That five-year-old grandson of mine has total trigger control.
'I think giving firearms as a present and getting firearms as a present is a great present, and I think because Christmas is a family affair, our ultimate responsibility is to protect and make sure our family is safe.'
Months earlier, she had hit the headlines after saying she would shoot Syrian refugees herself when asked if Nevada should offer them asylum.
'What, are you kidding me? I'm about to fly to Paris and shoot 'em in the head myself,' she told a local radio station.
'I am not okay with Syrian refugees. I'm not okay with terrorists. I'm okay with putting them down, blacking them out, just put a piece of brass in their ocular cavity and end their miserable life. I'm good with that.'
Fiore has also come under fire for having pushed 'Right to Try' laws to allow patients to choose experimental treatments, claiming that cancer is a fungus and could be cured with baking soda.
Fiore, who does not have a law degree, was appointed as a judge in deep-red Nye County by lawmakers in 2022 shortly after she lost her campaign for state treasurer
'If you have cancer, which I believe is a fungus, and we can put a PICC line into your body and we're flushing with, say, salt water, sodium carbonate, through that line and flushing out the fungus,' she said in 2015.
And she pushed a bill that would allow students to carry guns on college campuses, suggesting it could decrease sexual assaults.
'If these young, hot little girls on campus have a firearm, I wonder how many men will want to assault them,' she told the New York Times.
'The sexual assaults that are occurring would go down once these sexual predators get a bullet in their head.'
