Fiore’s disclosures had omissions

Liens, properties left off financial info

Las Vegas City Councilwoman Michele Fiore failed to report at least $91,000 in tax liens the IRS filed against her and rental income from a house in Colorado on her Nevada Financial Disclosure Statements since she became an elected official, a Las Vegas Review-journal investigation found.

When she ran for the U.S. House of Representatives in 2016, Fiore disclosed the Colorado house and rental income on her congressional Financial Disclosure Report, but the information did not appear on her state forms. Additionally, her federal forms did not report a trust or the tax debt, as Paul S. Ryan, vice president of policy and litigation for elections watchdog group Common Cause, said should have been reported.

From 2012, when she was first elected to the state Assembly, to as recently as this year, Fiore did not disclose much of her financial dealings, including Internal Revenue Service tax liens, records show. Fiore, a Republican, declined to discuss the omissions but wrote in an email that all of her disclosures are accurate and that she has no tax debt, trusts or property that she was required to report.

“Constituents in my district and my donors know the truth and are aware of my history in politics, as a businesswoman, and as an individual, this is why I was elected,” she wrote in a statement. “I have no secrets. There is nothing to find.”

But county records show unreleased tax debts, and other public records list the trusts and property she previously owned. That information should have been disclosed in the years the debt and property were hers, said Nevada Deputy Secretary of State for Elections Wayne Thorley.

“The disclosures let the public know of any potential conflicts of interest that the public officer may have,”