Las Vegas politician jailed for life for killing investigative journalist
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Former public administrator Robert Telles sentenced to life after being found guilty of 2022 murder of Jeff German.
A Las Vegas politician has been jailed for life for killing an investigative journalist who wrote critical articles detailing wrongdoing in the department he headed.
Robert Telles, a former Democratic public administrator, lay in wait outside the suburban home of 69-year-old reporter Jeff German and then stabbed him to death on September 2, 2022.
“Justice has been served,” Clark County prosecutor Steve Wolfson told reporters.
“Today’s verdict should send a message, and that message is a clear message that any attempts to silence the media or to silence or intimidate a journalist will not be tolerated.”
Telles, 47, bowed his head as a clerk read the verdict of first-degree murder, which carried a possible life sentence without parole. He was later sentenced to life with a minimum term of 20 years.
