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Roberta Lee-Kennett: Mistress warned Robert Telles about affair being exposed hours before Jeff German death

Telles was told that Clark County was going to release emails and Microsoft Teams messages detailing his affair with Roberta Lee-Kennett

LAS VEGAS, NEVADA:  Clark County Public Administrator Robert Telles is accused of killing Las Vegas Review-Journal reporter Jeff German on September 3, for exposing his marital affair. A new revelation in connection to the murder reveals Telles may have been provoked after his mistress Roberta Lee-Kennett allegedly told him that photos related to their liaison were set to come out, hours before the killing.

The Las Vegas Democrat, 45, was told, Clark County was going to release emails and Microsoft Teams messages to the paper detailing his "inappropriate relationship" with his mistress Roberta Lee-Kennett, according to Daily Mail. The investigative journalist German, 69, allegedly reported on the turmoil in Telles' office and his affair which nearly ended his reelection aspirations. 

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Who is Roberta Lee-Kennett? 

Roberta Lee-Kennett, 45, was an estate coordinator in Public Administrator Robert Telles' office. The junior employee was accused of having "inappropriate relationship" with the official. The Las Vegas Review-Journal reporter allegedly exposed Telles secret affair with his co-worker by publishing a video of him exiting a vehicle with his lover. In the video released in May, Lee-Kennett, left the backseat of the car at the same time as the official, and can be seen hoisting her skirt down.

After his affair was exposed Telles lost the Democratic primary to his assistant public administrator Rita Reid. Telles blamed German for ruining his career and marriage, and Prosecutors belive that was the motive behind the reporters killing. Telles has pled not guilty, but Lee-Kennett told police that Telles was "very upset and angry" with German over his reporting, according to the source. The 45 year old staffer received a transfer shortly after German was killed.

Did Robert Telles kill Jeff German over affair?

On the day of German's killing, Lee-Kennett emailed Telles at 7:30 am of September 3, about how the county attorneys were going to expose them with Telles responding that he would 'review' it, according to affidavits. Just under two hours later at 9:12, a GMC Yukon Denali registered to Telles' wife and by 10:54, a similar vehicle was seen on surveillance footage near German's home. A man walked into German's side yard at 11:18 and reportedly waited for 5mins before slaying the journalist. After his killing, police were desperately looking for the car in connection to the murder, when the journalist’s colleagues shared pictures of Telles washing a similar car to the polices description.

The Metropolitan Police Department identified Telles as a suspect and arrested him following a standoff at his house on September 7. Authorities found a pair of bloodied shoes and a cut up straw hat, similar to the one seen on the suspect caught in the surveillance footage near German's neighborhood around the time of his death. Telles's DNA evidence under German's fingernails. Prosecutors have accused the public official of 'lying in wait' to kill the journalist. However, Telles has pleaded not guilty to a charge of murder with a deadly weapon.