Slain Las Vegas reporter spent career chasing corruption

LAS VEGAS: In four decades of writing about the Las Vegas underworld and government corruption, investigative reporter Jeff German took on plenty of powerful and dangerous people. The hard-bitten newsman was once punched by an organized crime associate and received veiled threats from mobsters.

Nothing seemed to faze him as he doggedly went about his work.

So German characteristically didn’t express concern when Clark County Public Administrator Robert Telles, a virtually unknown…