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Speaker 1: There's a kind of inside joke in the hotel industry

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Speaker 1: that the last guest of the day is typically your worst.

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Speaker 2: That's Devon Khan. He's a reservation supervisor at the hotel

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Speaker 2: Constance in Pasadena, California.

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Speaker 1: It's always that last person that prevents you from being

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Speaker 3: Not me, basically my girlfriend.

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Speaker 4: There ahead a bunch of breaks. Breathing right now, you're

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Speaker 4: absolutely breathing, and I'm a doctor at is.

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Speaker 5: You wake out?

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Speaker 4: No?

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Speaker 1: Now, I'm pretty sure I'm not going home anytime soon.

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Speaker 2: Devon Khan has been in the hotel business for most

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Speaker 2: of his career, and working in hospitality has shown him

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Speaker 2: some truth about.

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Speaker 5: Human nature, not all of it.

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Speaker 2: Great Gevon knows that once you get pass an upscale

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Speaker 2: hotel's elegant lobby on the other side of that do

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Speaker 2: not disturb sign all kinds of human dramas play out,

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Speaker 2: and people are not always what they see. This is

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Speaker 2: a story that begins in a hotel room in Pasadena

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Speaker 2: and it ends with the undoing of some of the

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Speaker 2: most powerful people in Los Angeles. It's about influence and

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Speaker 2: money and how they can eat away at people and

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Speaker 2: make them look past things they know are very, very wrong.

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Speaker 2: My name is Paul Pringle. I'm an investigative reporter for

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Speaker 2: the La Times. This is Fallen Angels, a story of

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Speaker 2: California corruption, Episode one.

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Speaker 5: The Hotel Constance.

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Speaker 2: Pasadena, California is a smaller city wrapped into greater in

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Speaker 2: La Leafy, largely old money, rich and quiet. It's a

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Speaker 2: place you can raise a family even if you're not

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Speaker 2: part of the town's upper class, and Devon Khan is not.

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Speaker 1: I was living in Pasadena with my wife and my

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Speaker 1: daughter and had gone through a few career ups and

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Speaker 1: and reinvented myself as a massage therapist and was also

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Speaker 1: doing uber I always found a way to earn money

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Speaker 1: and keep a chicken in the pot, so to speak.

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Speaker 2: The Hotel Constance opened in the nineteen twenties. It went

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Speaker 2: through some tough times over the years. For a while

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Speaker 2: it was a retirement home, but it's been renovated and

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Speaker 2: now it bills itself as the only luxury, boutine hotel

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Speaker 1: The clientele that we catered to was kind of really

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Speaker 1: all over the place. Because our rates were relatively low.

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Speaker 1: We really had a mix of people who were affluent

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Speaker 1: the late night partiers who found a one hundred and

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Speaker 1: you were going to get.

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Speaker 2: It's Friday, March fourth, twenty sixteen, and Devon is finishing

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Speaker 2: up his shift. It's been a long day.

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Speaker 1: The day of the incident, I wasn't in a particularly

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Speaker 1: good mood. I had been passed over for promotion that

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Speaker 1: was pretty much promised to me by the previous general manager.

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Speaker 1: There was no leadership at the hotel. Everyone was across

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Speaker 1: around three o'clock, the front desk agent called me and

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Speaker 1: asked if I could assist him because there was someone

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Speaker 1: what the situation was. There was a guest that was

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Speaker 1: supposed to check out but wanted to extend his stay.

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Speaker 1: It was room three oh four. I'd looked to see

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Speaker 1: It did come up as Carmen Puliafido. Once I arrived

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Speaker 5: He knocks on the door of room three zero four.

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Speaker 2: The guest, a mister Puliafido, opens it, but he keeps

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Speaker 1: He looked like he was in his sixties. He was

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Speaker 1: moving him, I'll have an opportunity to see the young

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Speaker 1: He advises me that the day prior, housekeeping had found

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Speaker 2: Devon finds the guests another room, so now he has

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Speaker 2: access to room three h four. He gets his key

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Speaker 5: It's worse. Room three oh four. It's a disaster.

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Speaker 1: It looks like a crime scene. There's obvious drug activity

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Speaker 1: that has taken place. I'm seeing little nitrous oxide canisters

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Speaker 1: on the linens from where it was obviously burned, and

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Speaker 1: of abutane torch.

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Speaker 5: Devon knows what this means.

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Speaker 2: Someone's been doing drugs in this room, smoking heroin, cocaine

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Speaker 1: Unfortunately, I was very familiar with the paraphernalia that was

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Speaker 1: because my mother had been addicted to crack cocaine for many,

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Speaker 5: And then he sees them.

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Speaker 1: In the wheelchair was this very young lady that was

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Speaker 1: clearly too young to be with this gentleman. She was

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Speaker 1: limbs just completely just dead weight, wearing nothing but one

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Speaker 1: of the hotel robes. But the thing that really made

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Speaker 1: father's worst nightmare, but I had to remain professional. I'm

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Speaker 1: I'm speaking to her, ma'am, ma'am, are you okay? It's

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Speaker 1: at that time that I advice mister Puliafedo that it's

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Speaker 2: But despite the woman's condition, this older man, mister Puliofido,

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Speaker 2: is strangely blasse. He says, there's no need for paramedics.

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Speaker 1: He tried to talk me out of it. He says, well,

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Speaker 1: she's just had too much to drink. I'm going to

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Speaker 1: be keeping an eye on her. I'm a doctor, and

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Speaker 1: I didn't believe that he was a doctor. As far

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Speaker 2: Although it goes against all his years following hotel protocol

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Speaker 2: to assure the guests every need is met, to never

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Speaker 2: make a scene, to handle awkward situations with total discretion.

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Speaker 2: Devon ignores Polyiffido and he calls the paramedics himself.

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Speaker 5: The dispatcher picks up Farmed.

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Speaker 4: I am calling from the hotel Constence in Pasadena nine

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Speaker 4: two eight East, Colorado. And what room is the pion

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Speaker 1: How old does she uh?

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Speaker 4: I'd say maybe mid twenties. She's passed out?

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Speaker 1: Unresponse, is she breathing? Yes?

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Speaker 4: Are you able to transfer me to that room or.

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Speaker 2: Devon transfers the nine to one one call and pull

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Speaker 2: ther Fido.

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Speaker 4: Answers, hi's a fire department. You say you call for

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Speaker 4: one one, not me.

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Speaker 1: Basically, my girlfriend here ahead.

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Speaker 6: A bunch of drinks.

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Speaker 1: Is she wake now?

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Speaker 2: No, This is a guy who claims he's a doctor,

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Speaker 2: whose girlfriend, which is what he calls her, is unconscious,

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Speaker 2: whose room looks like a crime scene.

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Speaker 1: We're going to be there early to check her out.

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Speaker 3: Okay, okay, fine, fine, fine, thank you.

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Speaker 4: Do you know how much she drinks a bunch? Did

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Speaker 1: I think just the.

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Speaker 5: Alcohol, just the alcohol. That's a lie.

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Speaker 2: Devon stays on the third floor to make sure the

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Speaker 1: I observed the paramedics bringing the young lady out of

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Speaker 2: While Sarah is being wheeled away, Devon brings the chief

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Speaker 2: paramedic into the room.

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Speaker 1: The chief came with me. We go into the room

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Speaker 1: and he surveys the room. Our security had opened the

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Speaker 1: safe and inside the safe were the drugs white crystally

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Speaker 1: appeared to be methamphetamine. He took one look at the room.

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Speaker 1: He's like, lock this room and don't let anyone come

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Speaker 2: It will be hard for the police to miss the drugs,

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Speaker 2: but Devon wants to make sure they follow up on

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Speaker 2: what he feels is the most disturbing detail.

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Speaker 1: The tripod was still on the television. I advised our

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Speaker 1: when the police get here, make sure they get his

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Speaker 2: Now that the general manager has shown up, Devon can

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Speaker 1: I was ready to go at that point, but I

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Speaker 1: was looking forward to coming on Monday to find out

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Speaker 1: what happened. Once the police arrived, I had supreme confidence

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Speaker 2: The young woman, Sarah, still unconscious, is taken to hospital.

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Speaker 2: Devon heads down to gather his things. It's business as

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Speaker 2: usual in the lobby, the sirens fading into the distance.

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Speaker 2: You never know anything out of the ordinary had happened upstairs.

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Speaker 2: But any confidence Davon feels in the system, as he

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Speaker 2: calls it, it turns out that's badly misplaced. Three days later,

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Speaker 2: on Monday, March seventh, Devon is anxious to get back

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Speaker 2: to work. He's been wondering all weekend about what happened

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Speaker 1: I arrived one Monday, and the only other leader that

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Speaker 1: He and I were pretty close. We happened to meet

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Speaker 1: excited to hear what happened to this guy Once the

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Speaker 1: police arrived. He goes, the police didn't do anything. I'm like,

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Speaker 1: what do you mean, didn't do anything?

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Speaker 2: Despite a young woman in severe distress, a room littered

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Speaker 1: googled him. He's the dean of medicine for USC.

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Speaker 2: Doctor Carmen Puliaffido Is It's true, the dean of the

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Speaker 7: Doctor Puliafido is exciting, dynamic, brilliant and phenomenal.

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Speaker 1: So we thank USC for loaning him to us.

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Speaker 8: Doctor Puliafido, thank you everyone, and welcome to the Kech

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Speaker 8: School of Medicine. Macular degeneration is the leading cause of

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Speaker 2: That's Pulyifido making a presentation at a conference of fellow doctors.

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Speaker 2: Pulyifido co invented a breakthrough technology to treat eye diseases.

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Speaker 2: That's Max Deakias, then the president of the University of

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Speaker 2: When Puliafido arrived at USC, the school was twenty five

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Speaker 5: Pull the Afido lured.

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Speaker 2: Seventy professors to kick from other institutions, and with those

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Speaker 5: And a camera.

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Speaker 2: Devon wants to have faith in the quote unquote system,

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Speaker 5: The young woman.

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Speaker 2: He agonizes over what to do, and he doesn't feel

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Speaker 2: Given the unwritten rules of the hotel trade, Devon can't

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Speaker 1: My wife was really concerned after the incident about meep

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Speaker 5: So how do you do that?

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Speaker 2: He submits an anonymous complaint to the Pasadena City Attorney.

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Speaker 5: It wasn't.

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Speaker 2: There's no response to his complaint, no news of a

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Speaker 1: They say, we have a recording that we send our

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Speaker 2: So he places a call to the office of the President,

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Speaker 1: I went outside because I clearly didn't want to make

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Speaker 1: At this point. I've done everything that I feel comfortable doing.

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Speaker 2: It's been about a month since the incident. At the

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Speaker 1: Our neighbor was having a party. The uncle of my

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Speaker 5: The neighbor's uncle is named Ricardo der Antonia.

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Speaker 10: I've been the La Times since nineteen eighty nine and

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Speaker 10: He started talking about this incident that you witnessed. It

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Speaker 5: You couldn't believe it.

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Speaker 1: I can't have that. And he said, no problem, and

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Speaker 1: a short time after that, I get a call from Paul.

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Speaker 5: Again.

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Speaker 2: My name's Paul Pringle. I'm an investigative reporter for the

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Speaker 2: La Time Times. When I made that call to Devon

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Speaker 2: Khan in April of twenty sixteen, I thought I'd be

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Speaker 2: writing a quick hitch story about a drug overdose. I

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Speaker 2: had no idea it would take me much deeper into

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Speaker 2: the darkest corners of money and influence at two of

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Speaker 2: the most powerful institutions in LA Coming up this season

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Speaker 2: Onfallen Angels.

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Speaker 5: When people fall in line, they fall in live.

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Speaker 9: It's a cover up by people that just do not care,

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Speaker 9: didn't matter to them at all.

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Speaker 3: We were investigating USC, we were investigating Puliathido. Only a

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Speaker 3: month or two after the investigation began, I received some

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Speaker 3: strange visitors at my house.

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Speaker 9: Hey, how did you find this out?

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Speaker 3: How did you wink us together?

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Speaker 9: Do you understand that people are choosing you of sexually

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Speaker 9: assaulting young women for decades?

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Speaker 3: There were actually several instances that looking back, I realized, Oh,

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Speaker 3: everyone knew.

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Speaker 1: She was on the balcony and screaming about all the

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Speaker 1: method better means in the grip.

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Speaker 3: It's hard enough when a member of your family is

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Speaker 3: a drug addict, but add to that unlimited access to money.

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Speaker 3: How do you get them out of that situation. I

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Speaker 3: had to participate in this effort to get this story

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Speaker 3: published otherwise, which is betray my core values.

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Speaker 2: Why of a journalists in the first place.

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Speaker 9: We're always going to have predators, but it's the good

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Speaker 9: people who stand by and do nothing that allow them

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Speaker 9: to flourish.

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Speaker 5: That's coming up this season on Fallen Angels.

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Speaker 2: Fallen Angels, The Story of California Corruption is a production

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Speaker 2: of iHeart Podcasts in partnership with Best Case Studios. I'm

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Speaker 2: Paul Pringle. This show is based on my book Bad City,

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Speaker 2: Peril and Power in the City of Angels. Fallen Angels

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Speaker 2: was written by Isabel Evans, Adam Pinks, and Brent Katz.

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Speaker 2: Isabel Evans is our producer. Brent Katz is co producer.

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Speaker 2: Associate producers are Hannah Leibowitz, Lockhart and Onfajo lock Executive

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Speaker 2: producers are Me, Paul Pringle, Joe Piccarello, and Adam Pinkus

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Speaker 2: for Best Case Studios. Original music is by James Newberry.

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Speaker 2: This episode was edited by Daniel Turek with assistants from

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Speaker 2: Max Michael Miller, additional editings, sound design and additional music

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Speaker 2: by Dean White, Harriet Ryan, Matt Hamilton, Sarah Parvini and

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Speaker 2: Adam Olmaik are consulting producers. Our iHeart team is Ali

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Speaker 2: Perry and Carl Ketel. Follow and rate Fallen Angels wherever

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