German had written about workplace harassment by Robert Telles, a county lawyer, before he was killed

Jeff German was a doggedly old-school investigative reporter in Las Vegas who didn’t care what mobsters or tainted politicians he offended. After more than 40 years on the job, he had received so many threats and angry phone messages he stopped paying attention to them.

“I get that stuff all the time. It’s not a big deal,” he told his editor at the Las Vegas Review Journal.