Read highlights related to the late Judge Melanie Tobiasson and her involvement with Anthony D’Anna, former Acting/Interim US Attorney for the District of Nevada, Sigal Chattah, media coverage and more below …
Please note that I was present with Sigal Chattah, Anthony D’Anna and the late Judge Melanie Tobiasson at Piero’s. Her behavior was bizarre, to say the least. Judge Tobiasson was waving around a loaded revolver, completely inebriated, in the presence of Sigal Chattah, Anthony D’Anna and myself.
Please review the bullet points below and be sure to click on the links presented to go to the original sources.
News story: Las Vegas judge accused of improper involvement in murder probe
- Sigal Chattah introduced Judge Melanie Tobiasson to Tony D’Anna. As revealed in news reports (here: 8NewsNow, and here: Nevada Current), Tobiasson and D’Anna exchanged some 1,000 text messages between them over the course of a five-month period of time.
- I know personally that Judge Melanie Tobiasson was in an intimate personal relationship with D’Anna.
- Judge Tobiasson was on the bench in 2017 when she dismissed the charges brought by a victim against Tony D’Anna for Domestic Battery and Domestic Battery, Strangulation with the notation: “Case Closed – Dismissed State Not Proceeding”
- Tobiasson stepped down as a Justice of the Peace before a hearing regarding an ethics probe. She was being investigated by Nevada’s Judicial Discipline Commission for almost two years before she agreed to resign in 2021.
- Tobiasson alleged that she was trying to protect her daughter, who was 16 years old at the time, from prostitution after she started working at a clothing store she considered a hub for criminal activities.
- Tobiasson’s daughter was working at a clothing store that Tobiasson claimed was a front for criminal activities, which included prostitution, and tried to stop it, first by reporting the issue to the police. She said the store was trying to recruit her daughter into prostitution.
- The trial regarding Judge Tobiasson’s alleged misconduct was dropped after she decided to quit in 2021.
- Tobiasson, 53, took her own life in January 2023, according to the Clark County Coroner. Her death, ruled a suicide, came about a year after she resigned from her duties as a judge to avoid getting embroiled in an ethics investigation.
I have proof that D’Anna and Tobiasson had an intimate relationship. Also, media reports (such as a story published online by Las Vegas’s News Channel 8, headlined, “I-TEAM: Las Vegas judge formally accused of abusing her power, improper conduct“, which we are quoting from) documented that, “According to the [Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department], police learned [Judge Tobiasson] had more than 1,000 communications over five months with organized crime figure, Anthony Danna, who she had previously dismissed charges against in her courtroom. Police say she also later communicated with him while he was a fugitive.”
In a separate story published by the Toronto Sun (see image below), longtime journalist Dana Gentry, who writes for the Nevada Current, raised an interesting note about her conversations with Judge Melanie Tobiasson over time while Tobiasson was fighting allegations of ethical impropriety. According to the Toronto Sun story, Gentry was skeptical that Tobiasson committed suicide. Gentry was quoted in the story as saying, “I can’t tell you how many times Melanie told me, ‘If I wind up dead, remember I wasn’t suicidal,’ Dana Gentry told the New York Post. She was being followed, all sorts of things. She was unusual in the sense that she was willing to stand up for the truth even though she knew it might ruin her career.”
That statement by Gentry must also be measured against and considered in addition to the death of another mother who committed suicide within five months of Tobiasson’s death, a woman named Sydney Land, the two, “both spent years fighting the Las Vegas Metro Police Department over what they alleged was a cover-up of a still-unsolved double homicide tied to underage sex trafficking,” The NY Post reported.
“Judge Melanie Andress-Tobiasson, 55, who stepped down from the bench a year ago to avoid an ethics probe, killed herself Jan. 20 at her $2 million Vegas mansion. The Clark County coroner’s office said she died from a gunshot wound.
“Andress-Tobiasson’s one-time friend Connie Land, 53, shot herself to death Aug. 10, 2022, at her Las Vegas home after crusading for six years for justice for her daughter.
“Land’s daughter Sydney Land, 21, was murdered along with her 19-year-old boyfriend, Nehemiah “Neo” Kauffman, a reported pimp, in October 2016. The homicides remain unsolved.” (NY Post; Inside the mysterious suicides of two Las Vegas moms who accused cops of cover-up; By Dana Kennedy; Published Feb. 16, 2023)