(Michele Fiore trial: Day 2 transcripts, Page 1)

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OPINION: BY SA BARKET

The following transcript is from the court proceedings on Day 2 of the trial of defendant Michele Fiore, who at the time was a suspended Justice of The Peace.

The Mr. Gottfried referenced below is Alexander Byrne Gottfried, U.S. Department of Justice, lead attorney for the prosecution of defendant Michele Fiore.

From Day 2’s court transcripts, Sept. 25, 2024:

MR. GOTTFRIED: “Good morning. May it please the Court, Mr. Sanft.

“Members of the jury, on June 8th, 2014, Officer Alyn Beck and his partner, Igor Soldo, were taking their lunch break at a pizza restaurant in Northeast Las Vegas. Both men
were patrol officers with the Las Vegas Metro Police Department. On that day, without provocation, the two officers were ambushed and shot dead as they sat there eating
their lunch. The two officers went to work every day to protect the citizens of the Las Vegas Valley, and they were murdered for no reason except the uniform that they proudly wore.

“In the aftermath of that tragedy, there were many members of the community that rightly sought to honor and remember those officers’ sacrifices. The desire to remember the fallen is a natural human impulse. The defendant’s decision to take advantage of that impulse is the reason that we’re all in court today. You see, members of the jury, the case that you’re about to hear is not about the heartless killers that took the lives of Officers Beck and Soldo. The case that you’re about to hear is about a public official, a city councilwoman, who took advantage of those officers’ memories for her personal gain.

“You’re going to hear that the defendant, Michele Fiore, started a fake charity and raised tens of thousands of dollars supposedly for the purpose of building a memorial to Officer Alyn Beck. But you’re going to hear over the course of this trial that that was a lie. And what’s more, the defendant knew that it was a lie.

“You’re going to hear that none of the money that she raised, not one cent, was spent for a memorial to Officer Beck. And during the course of this trial, we’re going to follow the money and show you how she spent it: On herself and on her family, paying her rent, her political fundraising bills, for plastic surgery, and for her daughter’s wedding.”

This is what Michele Fiore was convicted of. Gottfried proved his case, according to the seated jury, which convicted Michele Fiore on all seven counts.

And President Donald Trump pardoned Fiore.

I want you to know the details of this case, because you’re not getting the real story in any of the local media reporting on it, nor in any of the national media that even bothered to pay attention to the facts of this story.

And I want you to know the details of this story to honor those two fallen officers.

There is much more to come related to the revelations that came as a result of this trial.