Jeff German was stabbed to death outside his home by a local official he had been investigating
Still, German’s colleagues at the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the city’s main paper, knew there was only one appropriate way to channel their grief and honor his memory: by doing what he would have done and investigating the hell out of his murder.
Within days, German’s fellow investigative reporters had tracked down vital information leading to the arrest of a relatively obscure county official whom German had accused, in a series of articles published in May and June, of bullying his staff and conducting an inappropriate relationship with a subordinate.
The Clark county public administrator, Robert ‘Rob’ Telles, is escorted into court in the fatal stabbing of reporter Jeff German.“There’s a lot more that’s going to come out,” German’s former boss, the investigations editor, Rhonda Prast, said. “We’re working 16 hours a day, and still working through the grief of losing Jeff. It’s overwhelming.”At least at first glance, Telles was not someone to make an experienced reporter like German think he had to watch his back.
As evidenced by German’s stories, Telles was unpopular enough in the office for some of his staffers to file confidential complaints about his behavior, which they later shared with German along with text messages, emails and surreptitiously shot. Weeks after the first story appeared, Telles lost a bid to serve a second four-year term as public administrator in a primary that pitted him against his top deputy.
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