The Clark County Public Administrator in Nevada who is accused of murdering a Las Vegas journalist will continue to get paid his $130,000 salary even though he has been charged with murder.
45-year-old Robert Telles is being held with out bail for the fatal stabbing of Las Vegas Review-Journal Jeff German who was found dead on September 3 outside of his home.
Telles failed to get reelected after German wrote a series of stories exposing his alleged ‘inappropriate relationship’ with a member of his staff
According to online court records, Telles, is being held with out bond.
City officials say that he will stay in his elected role and continue receiving his salary until another person is elected with Democratic Clark County Commissioner Tick Segerblom telling local media,
‘For now, he’s still an elected officer and he’ll get paid while he’s in jail.”
Segerblom said that the only action the commission could take would be to order a recall vote, which would require a recall petition, as well as gathering and verifying more than 100,000 signatures – or Telles could resign.
German, 69, had been reporting for months that Telles had an inappropriate relationship with a subordinate – reports Telles denied.
Prosecutors said at the hearing that German had been stabbed seven times, and the judge noted that the suspect’s DNA was found under German’s fingernails and on his hands, which also had defensive wounds.
