A Union, Legal Fees, and a ProPublica Paper Trail

Social Media post confirming Reese Ring Velto, PLLC represents the Nevada Police Union.

Finding out what the various unions pays their vendors is like hunting for Jimmy Hoffa’s burial site, Genghis Khan’s tomb, and the Vatican’s secret archives—all at once. But thanks to a stealth reader with an eye for details, the mystery just cracked open in regards to the Nevada Police Union.

Buried in an IRS filing on ProPublica, we find that the Nevada Police Union shelled out a cool $159,106 to Reese Ring Velto, PLLC—the firm representing them on “job-related matters.”

If the firm represents six to nine other unions, who pay about the same amount, that adds up to a tidy sum—without the nuisance of daily pesky court hearings.

And here’s the kicker: those contracts and legal shields ripple directly into taxpayer costs—from arbitration settlements to overtime and benefit negotiations. So, while the public can’t peek behind the curtain of union finances, we’re the ones paying for the show.

IRS filing was found by one of our readers on ProPublica.