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4. Reporter Jeff German confronted the power players of Sin City. It may have gotten him killed.
Tue Sep 13, 2022, 08:22 PM
Sep 2022

For 40 years, Las Vegas journalist Jeff German confronted the power players of Sin City, scrutinized public spending and never, ever backed down.

And he had more stories in the pipeline – including an ongoing investigation into an elected public official who police allege killed him.

“Jeff, in a million years, would never have thought that this would be the case that he’d be killed over," said Lisa Rasmussen, a local criminal defense lawyer who knew German for 20 years. "He’s covered the Mob, gotten into these massive corruption scandals. And no one offed him over that. It’s just so offensive on so many levels.”

On Sept. 3, authorities say, German, 69, was found stabbed to death outside his suburban Las Vegas home where he'd lived for 26 years, according to public records. Police initially said they thought German's killer was someone casing the neighborhood. But four days later, they arrested an elected official who had been the subject of German's recent reporting: Clark County Public Administrator Robert Telles.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/reporter-jeff-german-confronted-the-power-players-of-sin-city-it-may-have-gotten-him-killed/ar-AA11LqVm

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