Former Politician Convicted of Killing Las Vegas Reporter

A Nevada jury has found a former Las Vegas politician guilty of murdering an investigative journalist who wrote articles critical of his conduct in office. Robert Telles, a former Clark County public administrator, was accused of killing 69-year-old investigative reporter Jeff German in a side yard of the journalist’s home in 2022. In its Aug. 28 verdict, the jury found Telles guilty of first-degree murder with the use of a deadly weapon on a victim aged 60 or older. They deliberated for nearly 12 hours over three days before a unanimous vote. Prosecutors argued Telles stabbed German to death over a series of critical articles that appeared in the Las Vegas Review-Journal. Among the claims made by German were Telles engaged in an inappropriate relationship with a staff member and that he often harassed and bullied his staff at the Clark County Public Administrator’s Office....