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Speaker 2: In defiance of the.

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Speaker 3: That's Adam Almarra, an investigative reporter for the La Times.

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Speaker 3: My editor, Matt late had just asked Adam and three

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Speaker 1: I came home and told my wife what we were doing,

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Speaker 2: Is this really what you want to be doing.

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Speaker 3: Davon Maharaj, editor in chief at the Times, just killed

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Speaker 3: my piece on Carmen Puliaffido, the dean of the medical

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Speaker 3: School at USC. The fact that Puliafido was at a

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Speaker 3: But we are so this secret reporting team with Adam

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Speaker 2: Look.

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Speaker 1: I didn't get into journalism to be making a lot

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Speaker 1: of money and all of that, I mean, journalism is

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Speaker 1: participate in this effort to get this story published, Otherwise

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Speaker 3: My name is Paul Pringle. I'm an investigative reporter for

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Speaker 3: the La Times. This is Fallen Angels, Episode four, The

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Speaker 4: I wasn't really thinking about the risks.

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Speaker 6: That's kind of how I felt about it.

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Speaker 3: Matt Lade is my editor on the Pullia Feido story.

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Speaker 3: It was Matt's idea to put together this team and

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Speaker 3: Mark Duvason. Shelby Grad, another editor, quietly supports us. The

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Speaker 3: first reporter we go to is Harriet Ryan. She's an

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Speaker 7: I worked at Court TV.

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Speaker 7: I learned about court records, how to get them from

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Speaker 7: It seemed righteous because I knew the management was just

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Speaker 7: I'm not a bomb thrower revolutionary by nature, but by

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Speaker 3: Matt Hamilton had been part of the Times Pulitzer Prize

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Speaker 7: And I just remember being around this a comically large

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Speaker 5: I remember Harriet basically saying, there's two routes we got here.

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Speaker 4: Everyone, on their own accord, did what we call a scrub.

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Speaker 3: I have the Times Library again, do sweeps of public

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Speaker 7: To figure out why is USC so invested in this guy?

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Speaker 7: It's hundreds of millions of dollars, more than three hundred

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Speaker 7: You have two big academic schools fighting over this poaching

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Speaker 3: It wouldn't help USC case if it became publicly known

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Speaker 7: So at the time that the school forces him out

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Speaker 4: What are we going to do about Puliafito?

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Speaker 7: And one thing has to weigh is like we're going

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Speaker 5: We started scrubbing Sarah Warren and her family. There was

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Speaker 8: She had been signed up on like a sugar baby

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Speaker 3: Then we find something else. In one court filing, we

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Speaker 5: I was entering names from the Venmo list and the

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Speaker 4: There were several arrests and they were all.

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Speaker 5: Why would he list this five million dollar mansion in Pasadena.

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Speaker 3: All the reporters on this team have covered crime stories.

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Speaker 8: I had never gone to a jail or a prison

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Speaker 8: I was very glad to have Adam there with me

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Speaker 2: He's behind the plexiglass.

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Speaker 1: It's a visitor's kind of room where it's just rows

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Speaker 3: We had to disclose who we were.

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Speaker 4: We had to disclose it.

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Speaker 8: It was for a story that we were working on.

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Speaker 8: We were investigating usc we were investigating Fulia Fido. But

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Speaker 2: How do you know Sarah? How do you know Carton?

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Speaker 1: We will be able to confirm that this is not

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Speaker 2: He called him Tony. He said that Tony's always there.

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Speaker 3: Kyle tells Sarah and Adam that Sarah Warren is his girlfriend.

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Speaker 3: They hang out in Pasadena on Huntington Beach with a

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Speaker 1: We would drop a name of one of you know,

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Speaker 3: But what's strange is that even though this Tony is

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Speaker 3: He says that Carmen Puliafido is a quote monster.

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Speaker 1: He would make sort of ominous kind of remarks. He

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Speaker 8: He noted that the relationship between Sarah Warren and Harmon

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Speaker 3: Kyle won't confirm that he sells drugs to Puliafido, but

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Speaker 8: Kyle did, in that moment tell us that there were

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Speaker 8: basically what we were investigating, to his relationship with Sarah Warren,

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Speaker 1: What Kyle Voyd gave us was enough of an indication

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Speaker 3: Room, and it'll make it that much harder for Davon

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Speaker 1: This story, you can write a story that explains why

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Speaker 3: Reporter Harriet Ryan.

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Speaker 7: And so on any given day, Sarah and Adam would

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Speaker 3: But we still need to keep our reporting under wraps.

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Speaker 1: We made sure that we couldn't be seen. We met

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Speaker 8: That news was just kind of like a lull. I'm

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Speaker 3: Be and who's going to have our back When Dave

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Speaker 4: I'm still devastated.

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Speaker 7: There's part of me that still thinks of Matt Laatee

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Speaker 7: Matt would come on door knocks with me. I just

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Speaker 8: Discovering the rehab came from the court files. I remember

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Speaker 3: Through court records. Sarah Parvini has been tracking Sarah Warren's

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Speaker 8: It was a very dramatic, overcast kind of day. Paul

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Speaker 8: There was someone who basically was like, what are you

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Speaker 4: It's close to the water. Kind of stuccoe townhouse is Italian? Ain't.

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Speaker 3: Given the neighborhood. The Warren seem like a typical upper

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Speaker 5: We drove to the different entry points to this gated community,

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Speaker 5: just trying to figure out, like.

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Speaker 4: How are we going to do this?

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Speaker 3: We make our way to the Warren's house and knock

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Speaker 3: on the front door, no answer. Then a young man

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Speaker 5: Paul gives the spiel like we're reporters from Los Angeles Times.

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Speaker 5: We're trying to talk to Sarah. It's a story about

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Speaker 5: doctor Carmen Platfedo, the dane of UC's medical school. Charles

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Speaker 5: Warren rolled up the sleeves of his t shirt said

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Speaker 5: almost nothing, but pointed to a tattoo that said no snitches.

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Speaker 4: Just remember being shocked.

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Speaker 5: Because this is well to do community, gated near the

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Speaker 5: coast of Huntington Beach, very lily white, Orange County community.

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Speaker 5: And here's this teenager acting tough and macho with a

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Speaker 5: tattoo like ready to go, saying no snitches. I didn't

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Speaker 5: know if he was joking or not, and if it

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Speaker 5: was just kind of imitating bug culture or or if

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Speaker 4: And he was totally serious.

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Speaker 3: We have a feeling why USC might want to protect

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Speaker 3: Carmen Puleofido, the prestige, the money, the risk of scandal.

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Speaker 3: But what about this seventeen year old kid from Orange County.

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Speaker 3: What does the good doctor have on him? Davon Maharaj

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Speaker 3: and Mark Duvison deny that they did anything wrong in

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Speaker 3: their handling of the USC investigation, and they maintained that

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Speaker 3: any negative betrayal of their actions is false. Next time,

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Speaker 3: on Fallen.

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Speaker 5: Angels, Puliafido had given him meth twenty five to fifty

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Speaker 5: bars of sanax.

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Speaker 3: The deeper we look, the darker it gets.

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Speaker 8: Here's a young woman who is struggling not only with

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Speaker 8: substance issues, but also this imbalance of power.

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Speaker 5: She was discharged, but relapsed on the ride home with

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Speaker 5: Puliafito because he gave her meth and alcohol.

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Speaker 3: But the people who should be most concerned seem to

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Speaker 8: We told them two reporters from the only times we'd

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Speaker 8: were turned away.

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Speaker 5: The money was arriving, so fast enough time for two

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Speaker 5: dollar Times reporters.

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Speaker 3: That's next time on Fallen Angels. Fallen Angels, The Story

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