Nicole Cannizzaro Faces Own Scrutiny Over Lobbyist Ties and Past Attorney Representation In Tense Attorney General Democratic Primary

While we recently posted about the Intercept’s report on crypto entrepreneur Jeffrey Berns, who wanted to establish a blockchain city just outside Reno, bankrolling Zach Conine, @Nn.dsa on Instagram did a post sent to us today with a video and a caption blasting his Democratic primary opponent in the Nevada Attorney General race Nicole Cannizzaro.

The caption points to her connections to a lobbyist repeatedly working to prevent a statewide ban on the retail sale of pets. It also reveals how she was a former attorney representing a bank owned by Steve Mnuchin described as a “foreclosure machine."

Alisa Nave a lobbyist who has regularly represented the Pet Advocacy Network fighting a ban on the sale of dogs and cats in pet stores in Nevada comes from a family which owns more than a dozen veterinary clinics.

Both her and James Nave are listed in campaign financial disclosures as contributing $10,000 each to Cannizzaro in 2025. Alisa Nave also recently hosted multiple donation events for Cannizzaro.

Meanwhile a search of case number A-11-634917-j on the clarkcountycourts.us website reveals a 2011 foreclosure mediation case with OneWest Bank having Cannizzaro as one of its attorneys.

Steve Mnuchin who went on to serve as Donald Trump’s Treasury Secretary from 2017 to 2021 owned OneWest Bank from March 2009 to August 2015, which was heavily involved in foreclosures.

Previously we reported about an anti Conine website called cryptoconine.com which feeds off the recent Intercept article reporting Berns has given Conine’s campaign at least $2.5 million, several years after Cannizzaro played a key role in blocking the crypto entrepreneur’s effort to build a much derided blockchain city in Storey County.

The founder of Blockchains had bought 67,000 acres of land east of Reno in 2018 for $170 million as part of his idea for a semi-autonomous area which received initial backing from then Democratic Nevada Governor Steve Sisolak, to the consternation of many.

Berns was also in the news after he and his wife settled for a reported $15,000 with a former nanny who had accused the couple of trying to force her into a threesome. The allegations had come just as the so-called Innovation Zone Cannizzaro opposed was being debated at the legislative level, before being withdrawn in 2021.

Meanwhile the Conine linked Safe and Strong Nevada PAC has its signature at the bottom of its own website an anti-Cannizzaro display called callcannizzaro.com.

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