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   As Las Vegas police closed in Wednesday on Clark County Public   
   Administrator Robert Telles, his employees said they have long   
   feared for their safety.   
      
   Officers arrested Telles, 45, on suspicion of killing Review-   
   Journal investigative reporter Jeff German, who had documented   
   an alleged tumultuous and hostile work environment within the   
   outgoing elected official’s office.   
      
   “It’s just more real now. It’s like a realization that we’ve   
   been in the office with someone who hates us and is capable of   
   this kind of violent crime,” said Aleisha Goodwin, an estate   
   coordinator in Telles’ office. Goodwin had filed a confidential   
   retaliation complaint with the Clark County Office of Diversity,   
   German reported in May.   
      
   In his investigations, German talked to a half-dozen current and   
   former employees who alleged months of bullying, emotional   
   distress and favoritism by Telles.   
      
   “All along, there’s been a concern for safety for myself and   
   others who were bold and brave enough to put their names out   
   there in the articles,” Reid said.   
      
   Police searched Telles’ house on Wednesday morning, one day   
   after releasing a photo of a red GMC Yukon Denali they believe   
   was tied to the killing.   
      
   “When I saw that car, the hair on my arms just stood up,” said   
   Goodwin, who recognized it as belonging to Telles. Review-   
   Journal reporters saw Telles in his driveway Tuesday, standing   
   next to an SUV matching that description.   
      
   Telles did not return requests for comment Wednesday.   
      
   Telles’ top deputy in the office, Rita Reid, said she thought   
   his anger was still festering, especially after he potentially   
   learned in early August there was a new round of records   
   requests.   
      
   Reid said he was still complaining about German’s articles just   
   days before the killing.   
      
   “You have not had truly bad bosses if you think I tortured you,”   
   he wrote in an Aug. 28 text message that Reid shared with the   
   Review-Journal. “You’ve ruined my life’s path and damaged the   
   office.”   
      
   Reid, who ran in the office’s Democratic primary this summer and   
   bested Telles, said employees interviewed by the Review-Journal   
   were anxious about their well-being after the reporter’s killing.   
      
   The employees reported being on edge Wednesday morning but   
   continued to come in to work. They said the building’s locks   
   were changed, and a sign posted at the entrance Wednesday   
   morning read, “This building is temporarily closed.”   
      
   County spokesman Erik Pappa declined to comment.   
      
   German, 69, was a storied newsman who spent more than 40 years   
   uncovering a myriad of corruption and scandals in Las Vegas and   
   told his co-workers he brushed off threats. Police said he was   
   stabbed to death outside his northwest Las Vegas home on Friday   
   morning.   
      
   “The guy investigated the mob and all kinds of things,” said one   
   shocked former county employee who did not want to be named out   
   of concern for his safety. “It’s just hard to imagine he gets   
   done in by exposing operations in the smallest possible county   
   office of government. That’s nuts.”   
      
   In a series of tweets this June, Telles called German a bully,   
   said he was “obsessed” with him and accused the reporter of   
   preparing “lying smear piece #4.”   
      
   When he was killed, German had an outstanding request for public   
   government records involving Telles. He texted Goodwin Friday   
   morning, hours before police say he was attacked.   
      
   In their exchanges, Goodwin alerted German that several   
   employees were resigning.   
      
   “Thanks. I’ll be back at work on Thursday. That may be a story,”   
   replied German, who was beginning a week-long vacation.   
      
   ‘Justice for Jeff’   
      
   Telles previously denied his employees’ accusations against him   
   and blamed a handful of disgruntled employees, “old-timers,” for   
   making false claims against him and exaggerating the extent of   
   his “inappropriate relationship” with Roberta Lee-Kennett, who   
   also did not respond to requests for comment.   
      
   German documented members of warring office factions who said   
   they had suffered emotional stress, which in some cases had   
   impaired their physical health.   
      
   Employees said that they reached out to German out of   
   desperation when the county refused to heed their complaints and   
   felt some relief when their stories were told and Telles lost   
   the election.   
      
   “The reality and the horrific nature of what’s happened has   
   really come to a head,” Reid said. “And we just want justice for   
      
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