LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — Prosecutors said Monday that there is no indication former Las Vegas City Councilwoman Michele Fiore is a “domestic terrorist” and believe her allegation is a “mistaken claim.”
In July, a federal grand jury indicted Fiore — now a suspended Pahrump Justice Court judge — on several counts of wire fraud and conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Fiore “engaged in a scheme to defraud charitable donors of more than $70,000 for her own personal benefit,” a superseding indictment from August said.
The government classified former Las Vegas City Councilwoman Michele Fiore as a “domestic terrorist” in 2020, a title she has kept amid recent legal troubles in federal court, her lawyer, Michael Sanft, said in court documents filed earlier this month.
Sanft said his client was classified as a “domestic terrorist” following her support for rancher Cliven Bundy and the armed standoff he had with the government in 2014. The documents surround what evidence could be entered in Fiore’s federal trial.