The county official is accused of responding to news articles that made him look pretty bad by stabbing the reporter who wrote the articles to death.
—was found dead outside his home in an apparent stabbing. On Wednesday, authorities arrested a local elected official named Robert Telles, whom German had covered extensively for the Las Vegas Review-Journal, on suspicion of having killed the reporter, who was 69. Below, we try to answer some of the most obvious questions about this tragic but undeniably intriguing situation.Telles, a Democrat, has served as Clark County, Nevada’s “public administrator” since winning election in 2018.
He’d written about Telles, but not in the way you might imagine if you are aware of the gambling industry’s historic ties to the mob, the size of the estates that the public administrator likely deals with on a regular basis, and German’spieces about accusations that Telles was involved in an “inappropriate relationship” with a female member of the public administrator’s office, that he had created “turmoil and internal dissension” by giving her privileges and authority over other employees that were not justified by her job description, and that he was in general an abusive boss.
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