LAS VEGAS (KTNV) — 13 Action News is learning more about Robert Telles, the man accused of killing Las Vegas Review-Journal reporter, Jeff German.
German had been working on several expose pieces about the Clark County Public Administrators Office and how Telles had been accused of bullying and sexual misconduct.
In May of 2012, Carlos Morales and Robert Telles crossed paths in law school. Both going to UNLV’s Boyd School of Law.
The two served on student government together, but as Morales describes, Telles “came into the presidency position like a tornado.” Saying "he wanted to make drastic changes to everything."
Years later, similar allegations were published in the Las Vegas review journal, at the center of the Jeff German case. The articles he wrote about explain Telles’ employees' claim he emotionally abused as well as inappropriate sexual conduct.
Morales explains when German’s article came out he called Jeff to explain to him the story of what happened back in law school.
Morales says it was either late August or early September of 2012, at a law school fraternity where Telles apparently inappropriately touched a first-year law student.
What happened at the party with Telles started to spread and rumors began to culminate, until it came to the surface at the next student government board meeting, where one student said the student government needed to discuss this, Morales says.
KTNV spoke to a former Dean of Affairs at Boyd Law School, who wouldn’t go on camera, but did confirm that the school investigated these allegations.
Morales says the student government did try to take immediate action: "We tried to remove him from his position, and regardless of if it happened, his reaction to this situation—he threatened to sue everyone on the board, wrote preservation of evidence letters to everyone on the board."
When asked if he’s surprised by the current investigation into the murder of reporter Jeff German, Morales says, “ I am and I’m not, I’m surprised at how premeditated this, but I’m not surprised he tried to shut him up because that exactly what he was trying to do back then."
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