‘Trump is spitting in the face of law enforcement’: President pardons ‘Lady Trump’ for spending slain officer charity funds on ‘rent, cosmetic procedures, and her daughter’s wedding’

Left: President Donald Trump departs after signing an executive order at an event to announce new tariffs in the Rose Garden of the White House, Wednesday, April 2, 2025, in Washington (AP Photo/Evan Vucci). Right: Michele Fiore campaign ad (YouTube).

President Donald Trump has granted a “full and unconditional pardon” to Michele Fiore, the former Las Vegas councilwoman also known as “Lady Trump,” who was convicted of “fleecing” the community out of about $70,000 in a scheme to defraud donors to a charity for a police officer who was killed in the line of duty, using the money she collected for plastic surgeries, rent, and her daughter’s wedding.

The pardon comes less than a week after U.S. District Court Judge Jennifer Dorsey rejected Fiore’s attempt to overturn her conviction and grant her a new trial. The clemency was issued less than a month after Trump appointed Sigal Chattah, one of Fiore’s close friends, as the interim U.S. Attorney for Nevada, The Nevada Independent reported.

Fiore, a former Republican gubernatorial candidate who was a justice of the peace when she was federally indicted on six counts of wire fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud, was convicted on all seven charges following an eight-day trial in October 2024.

Jurors found that when Fiore was still a member of the city council, she solicited donations to build a statue honoring Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Officer Alyn Beck, who was killed while on the job on June 18, 2014. Her solicitations allegedly included a promise that “100% of the contributions” would be put toward creating the statue.

While the statue does, in fact, stand in a flower bed near the entrance of Officer Alyn Beck Memorial Park in Las Vegas, it was raised without any financial assistance from Fiore. Instead, prosecutors said she converted all of the money she solicited from donors — more than $70,000 — to cash and money orders used “for her own personal benefit.”

“[T]he jury heard from a veritable who’s who of Nevada business and politics, who wrote checks to Fiore’s charitable organization or her political action committee in reliance on her promise that 100% of the donations would be used to fund the statue,” Dorsey wrote in the 77-page order denying Fiore a new trial. “But the evidence showed that a development company paid for the statue, and not a dime of the money that Fiore raised was used for that purpose. Instead, each check was quickly converted to cash and spent on Fiore’s personal expenses like rent, cosmetic procedures, and her daughter’s wedding.”

She was facing 20 years in prison on each charge and was scheduled to be sentenced next month.

But Fiore will now avoid prison as her attorney, Paola M. Armeni, filed a motion on Thursday to vacate her sentencing date “due to executive grant of clemency.”