S19 Ep85: The Last Story: The Murder of an Investigative Journalist in Las Vegas w/Arthur Kane
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🗓️ 16 July 2024
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Summary
 Jeff German, a veteran Las Vegas Review-Journal investigative reporter, was no stranger to controversy or the danger of his work. For more than four decades, he wrote stories relentlessly confronting the mob, corrupt politicians, and greedy bureaucrats. As a result, he was often threatened—enough that he and his friend and fellow investigative reporter, Arthur Kane, sometimes joked about reporting on these threats if they were ever acted upon.
Then, in the spring of 2022, German received a tip about abuses at a little-known county office. His subsequent investigation unearthed a scandalous, sexually incriminating video of a rising politician. The resulting stories in the Review-Journal ended the man’s political aspirations.
Less than six months later, on September 3, German’s lifeless body was discovered outside his home with multiple stab wounds. His dedicated newsroom colleagues, including Kane, vowed to find the killer. In doing so, they exposed the true depths of corruption and malice in Sin City.
On today's TCT, Arthur Kane, the author of "The Last Story..." joins the show to talk about his unique relationship with Jeff, who Jeff German really was, the circumstances that got an extremely tough mob beat reporter killed, and how this reporter even transcended the print game to make his bones in another medium posthumously, winning national awards!Â
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| 0:00.0 | And then. Welcome in the Best and true crime podcasting. This is True Crime Tuesday. I'm your host Tim Dennis. |
| 0:28.0 | Folks, today we have a very interesting program, very timely program, and that today we're going to take a look at the fourth |
| 0:34.4 | estate talking about print journalism and talking about a show that I find a little |
| 0:42.0 | alarming to be honest with you talking about a field that we don't protect enough talking about |
| 0:50.0 | the media you know the media gets probably at times way too much scrutiny. |
| 0:55.0 | We like to use the media as a pin cushion. |
| 0:58.0 | You like to use the media as a way to scapegoat everything. The media is always at fault for everything. The media is at fault for this, it's at fault for that, it's at fault for the way we look at society, it's at fault for the way that we raise our children. It's at fault for everything. |
| 1:17.0 | Well, a lot of times we don't take that finger and point it right back at ourselves. |
| 1:22.0 | Unfortunately... at ourselves. Unfortunately, we don't protect the media enough and sometimes it ends up |
| 1:28.6 | being fatal. The story that we're going to talk about today is an amazing book. |
| 1:35.0 | It's a book called The Last Story, The Murder of an Investigative Journalist in Las Vegas. |
| 1:40.0 | It was written by our guest today, Arthur Kane. |
| 1:44.0 | It tells the story of Jeff German, who's a veteran |
| 1:46.9 | Las Vegas Review Journal investigative reporter, who didn't |
| 1:54.5 | who didn't deserve his end. |
| 1:57.0 | An excellent reporter who was hungry. |
| 2:01.2 | And it's hard to stay hungry in a business where you're constantly |
| 2:08.0 | being beaten down. You have to stay motivated. It's one of those businesses where there's not a lot of |
| 2:14.4 | thank yous there's a lot of just go out there and get the job done you have to |
| 2:21.7 | stay motivated but it's not a job that pays you off. A lot of |
| 2:26.1 | thank you, so a lot of Pat's on the back, a lot of Atta Boys, because the |
| 2:31.7 | payment of the job is that you're there to in a way uphold justice in a different way. |
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