Speaker 1: It's been a while since since you've seen a good.
Speaker 2: Old fashion doing drugs video, so we saw brand.
Speaker 3: That video was recorded at Sarah Warren's apartment. It shows Sarah,
Speaker 3: a twenty one year old, doing meth and other drugs
Speaker 3: with a much older man. Considering what he's into. You
Speaker 3: might be surprised to learn what this man does for
Speaker 3: a living. He's the dean of the medical school at USC.
Speaker 3: You Christian. For months, I've been fighting to get into
Speaker 3: the paper my story about the dean of the USC
Speaker 3: Medical School, Carmen Puliafido. Then I get my hands on
Speaker 3: some of the videos he and Sarah Warren had been making.
Speaker 3: They come from a source I didn't expect. My name
Speaker 3: is Paul Pringle. I'm an investigative reporter for the La Times,
Speaker 3: and this is Fallen Angels, Episode five, The Warren Family.
Speaker 3: I first went to see the Warrens in March of
Speaker 3: twenty seventeen. Matt Hamilton, another Times reporter, came with me
Speaker 3: to their house in Orange County. Matt's part of the
Speaker 3: secret reporting team I'd put together with my editor. But
Speaker 3: when we get to their place in Huntington Beach, the
Speaker 3: only person home is Sarah's teenage brother, Charles. We ask
Speaker 3: about Puviafido and his sister, and the kid pulls up
Speaker 3: his shirt sleeve to show us a tattoo. It says,
Speaker 3: no snitches.
Speaker 4: And this is like the punk younger brother who's trying to.
Speaker 3: Act tough reporter Matt Hamilton.
Speaker 4: That's another to work closed on us. I think that
Speaker 4: is when Paul made the decision. He drove down to
Speaker 4: Paul Warren's office in Long Beach and maybe introduction, which
Speaker 4: was risky because if you're door knocking someone to go
Speaker 4: to their workplace is like extremely low chances of success.
Speaker 3: I don't like the idea of showing up at Paul
Speaker 3: Warren's work, but Sarah's in rehab and Charles isn't talking,
Speaker 3: so at this point Paul's all we got. He works
Speaker 3: at a logistics company in downtown Long Beach. There's a
Speaker 3: garden the lobby. I don't tell him who I am.
Speaker 3: I just asked him if he can direct me to
Speaker 3: Paul's office. He won't, but he phones Paul to say
Speaker 3: I'm there. A couple minutes later, Sarah Warren's father appears.
Speaker 3: He's in his fifties, medium Bill brown hair. I tell
Speaker 3: him I'm a reporter for the La Times, and immediately
Speaker 3: his face falls like he knew this day would come.
Speaker 3: He leads me to a private area where we can talk.
Speaker 3: I asked him if i'll answer a few questions confidentially.
Speaker 3: With some reluctance, he agrees. Paul tells me that he
Speaker 3: and his wife have been trying to get Pulliafido out
Speaker 3: of Sarah's life for two years. He says, Carmen thinks
Speaker 3: Sarah's his girlfriend, and the Warrens are desperate for her
Speaker 3: rehab to work. That's all he'll say for now. I
Speaker 3: give him my card and ask if we can speak again.
Speaker 3: He says he'll think about it. Even if we can't
Speaker 3: get Sarah or her parents. The reporting team has enough
Speaker 3: for a story, so it's time to poke USC president
Speaker 3: Max Dechias again, give him one last chance to comment.
Speaker 3: We decided to send Matt Hamilton and Sarah Parvini to
Speaker 3: follow up in person.
Speaker 4: Paula basically tasks us with one of the most difficult parts,
Speaker 4: which is confronting an administrator at USC who doesn't want
Speaker 4: to be confronted.
Speaker 5: Matt and I are both USC alums, both products of
Speaker 5: the journalism School of USC, and it seemed fitting for
Speaker 5: the two of us to be the people to go
Speaker 5: back on campus and to sit in that office and
Speaker 5: hope for an interview with Nikias.
Speaker 4: We kno f in the president's dore and go in,
Speaker 4: and we had not realized that the USC President's office
Speaker 4: was really a series of offices. There was clearly an
Speaker 4: inner sanctum, and then an outer sank them, and then
Speaker 4: even further outer sank them.
Speaker 1: There was a person at the front desk.
Speaker 5: We told them who we were, or two reporters from
Speaker 5: the La Times.
Speaker 1: We're working on a story.
Speaker 2: We'd like to speak with President Kias.
Speaker 5: And we sat there and waited, but of course we
Speaker 5: were turned away.
Speaker 4: We were both a little crestfallen that we didn't get
Speaker 4: to lay eyes on the president. Really that what was
Speaker 4: like the height of Max and Kius's power because us
Speaker 4: he was just raking in over a billion a year.
Speaker 4: The money was arriving so fast, and he didn't have
Speaker 4: time for two dollar Times reporters.
Speaker 3: I also emailed the Kias's office for a response, and
Speaker 3: I attached the nine to one one recording from the
Speaker 3: hotel continence. Remembering what his office said in that letter,
Speaker 3: to Davon, I ad a ps quote. I have never
Speaker 3: followed you on Instagram and I have no interest in
Speaker 3: your travel schedule. I know going to the Kias could
Speaker 3: easily meet another complaint from his office, and the top
Speaker 3: editors at the Times, Davon and Mark are not going
Speaker 3: to like it. And on Monday, the reporting team here
Speaker 3: is from one of our editors, shall be grad we.
Speaker 4: Got an email saying to the effect of, Okay, the
Speaker 4: team's done, good work, carry on with your other assignments
Speaker 4: and stories. I do remember a sense of Shelby being
Speaker 4: leaned on to have the team do other things.
Speaker 3: Matt Late, our editor on the story, tells me Davon
Speaker 3: has apparently found out about the reporting team and now
Speaker 3: he's pressuring Shelby to take everyone off the project. It
Speaker 3: seems maybe Nikias did complain again.
Speaker 4: I remember calling Paul and other team members after receiving
Speaker 4: that email, and it was like, disregard the email. Just
Speaker 4: keep doing what you're doing. I know it saysn't in writing,
Speaker 4: but the real mandate is to keep going. The five
Speaker 4: of us were able to do significant headway and gell
Speaker 4: as a team, and it made it almost impossible for
Speaker 4: it to be disbanded by that point, and it was
Speaker 4: kind of a brilliant tactical move by mid level editors
Speaker 4: to put like five people of varied abilities, skill, experience,
Speaker 4: age onto a team. It's like a broad constituency kind
Speaker 4: of gave it and impossible to kill arrangement.
Speaker 6: There was a lot of contempt for the leadership of
Speaker 6: the paper.
Speaker 4: We found them ridiculous.
Speaker 3: Harriet Ryan had been through this kind of thing with
Speaker 3: her investigation into Purdue Pharma, and she isn't about to
Speaker 3: let this story suffer the same fate.
Speaker 6: It was about journalism. There was something about the purity
Speaker 6: of the journalism afflict, the comfortable and comfort they afflicted.
Speaker 6: It was why we were all in this field. It
Speaker 6: was why we got up every morning and like went
Speaker 6: to this building and made less money than we could
Speaker 6: of and dealt with the fact that we could be
Speaker 6: laid off at any minute. We all did it for
Speaker 6: this belief in this thing.
Speaker 3: Shelby sends another email to the team saying again that
Speaker 3: we need to stand down. We ignore it, so we're
Speaker 3: not a secret reporting team anymore, just an insubordinate one.
Speaker 3: I give Paul Warren a few days to get in touch,
Speaker 3: but he doesn't. Then one morning I get a call
Speaker 3: from his wife, mary Anne Warren, Sarah's mother. She won't
Speaker 3: go on the record, at least not yet, but she
Speaker 3: agrees to talk. I don't tell mary Anne that have
Speaker 3: already spoken to her husband and said she doesn't bring
Speaker 3: it up. I assume he hasn't told her either. I
Speaker 3: have to maintain Paul's confidentiality, even from his wife. We
Speaker 3: arranged to meet at the Hilton in Huntington Beach. I
Speaker 3: first see mary Anne in the hotel lounge. She's tanlonde
Speaker 3: and looks a lot like her daughter. She says her
Speaker 3: husband doesn't know that she's meeting with me, and neither
Speaker 3: does Sarah. We find a quiet table at the back
Speaker 3: and she starts to tell me what Carmen Pullioffido has
Speaker 3: done to her family. The Warrens first learned about Pulliafido
Speaker 3: when Sarah ran away from home. She had always been
Speaker 3: in and had run away before, but this time was different.
Speaker 3: They didn't hear from her for months, so mary Anne
Speaker 3: was relieved when she got a Facebook message from one
Speaker 3: of Sarah's friends.
Speaker 7: He called and said, your daughter is mixed up with
Speaker 7: these mad men.
Speaker 3: Now, the Lawrens would end up signing a non disclosure
Speaker 3: agreement with USC and we'll get to that. They can't
Speaker 3: tell their whole story, But Mari Anne did go on
Speaker 3: the record. These excerpts are from a transcript read by
Speaker 3: an actor through Facebook.
Speaker 7: When Sarah went missing and Carmen had the first apartment
Speaker 7: for her, I said, bring her to me. I didn't
Speaker 7: care who he was.
Speaker 3: To me.
Speaker 7: He was like a guardian angel because I hadn't seen
Speaker 7: my daughter in a couple of months.
Speaker 3: Sarah came home, but she wasn't the same. She had
Speaker 3: struggled with her drinking and dabbled with drugs before, but
Speaker 3: now she was addicted to meth and she claimed that
Speaker 3: this sixty four year old doctor was her boyfriend. It
Speaker 3: was the start of a terrible cycle.
Speaker 7: She oh deed with this guy like four or five times.
Speaker 7: Pasadena Sheriffs had to have a suicide squad at her apartment.
Speaker 7: Of course, no trace of any police reports.
Speaker 3: No police reports. Just like after the hotel constance, the
Speaker 3: Warrens got Sarah into rehab again and leaned on pull
Speaker 3: your feeto to help pay for it. But even though
Speaker 3: he's willing to spend money on your treatment, he's still
Speaker 3: part of the problem.
Speaker 7: Sarah says that he snuck drugs in all the candy
Speaker 7: that he would send her in rehab, and that's why
Speaker 7: she never got better.
Speaker 4: She was in three rehab facilities. She was kicked out
Speaker 4: of one of them because Puliafido smuggled Santax bars to her.
Speaker 3: Reporter Matt Hamilton.
Speaker 4: The first day of her rehabit, she went out to
Speaker 4: the car and he would give her sann Axe handle
Speaker 4: the bag.
Speaker 3: And on the second.
Speaker 4: Day Fiet brought her meth by putting it in a
Speaker 4: sunglass case on the road outside the facility, and so
Speaker 4: she was kicked out after they found out she was high.
Speaker 4: At the second rehab Facilita was discharged but relapsed on
Speaker 4: the ride home with Pulliafido because he gave her meth
Speaker 4: and alcohol on the ride home. Monarch sure Is I
Speaker 4: believe was the third. He would mail her zanaxs Skittles
Speaker 4: bags and he called it Skittles surgery.
Speaker 3: Now knowing what Pulliafido was capable of, the warrems have
Speaker 3: put Sarah into a rehab where he can't get to her.
Speaker 7: Where she is now, they don't let any men in,
Speaker 7: you know, So it drove him wild. I had to
Speaker 7: kind of keep him at bay so he wouldn't go
Speaker 7: there searching for her, saying, oh no, this rehabs like
Speaker 7: a convent. They don't let anyone in.
Speaker 2: Carmen.
Speaker 7: I hardly get to speak to her myself.
Speaker 3: They consulted a private investigator who told him not to
Speaker 3: shut out Puliofido since they don't know what he maan
Speaker 3: I do.
Speaker 7: I have kept in contact with Carmen while Sarah's been
Speaker 7: in rehab. When we first found out all this was
Speaker 7: going on, who he was, I was advised that we
Speaker 7: keep our enemy close to us, my husband and I.
Speaker 7: So we've been in constant contact with Carmen, like every
Speaker 7: two or three weeks.
Speaker 3: And Marianne tells me something else. Sarah is not the
Speaker 3: only one in her family who's fallen under his spell.
Speaker 3: Pouliofido also has his hooks into her teenage son, Charles.
Speaker 4: Puliofido had given him meth twenty five to fifty bars
Speaker 4: of sanax.
Speaker 3: By the way, bars is just another term for pills.
Speaker 4: Polifido and his sister they were both smoking meth. This
Speaker 4: was in her Pasadena apartment. They offered it to him
Speaker 4: and he accepted and he was only seventeen years old
Speaker 4: at the time. He's someone who was going over to
Speaker 4: his sister's apartment and invited to partake, but.
Speaker 3: Charles has been trying to get free of Pulliffido. He
Speaker 3: hates how the dean controls Sarah with drugs, keeps her
Speaker 3: away from her friends and family. Mary Anne also tells
Speaker 3: me that Sarah had once called Charles afraid for her life.
Speaker 3: Pulliafido had seen her with another man and it burst
Speaker 3: into her apartment in a jealous rage. When Charles rushed over,
Speaker 3: he found his sister screaming because Pulliofido had been using
Speaker 3: a steam iron on her clothes while she was wearing them.
Speaker 4: He fought with Pullioffido to defend his sister. He beat Pulloffido,
Speaker 4: hurt his knee.
Speaker 3: Charles warned Pulliafido to stay away from Sarah, and he
Speaker 3: threatened to kill him, but Pulliafido wouldn't leave her alone.
Speaker 3: At the end of our meeting, mary Anne confirms what
Speaker 3: we've heard from the drug dealer Kyle Void. Mary Anne
Speaker 3: had looked through Sarah's laptop and found hundreds of photos
Speaker 3: and videos of Pulliafido and Sarah doing drugs. And having sex.
Speaker 3: I know that if we can get our hands on
Speaker 3: this evidence, David and Mark will have to publish the story.
Speaker 3: So I asked Marianna if she'll share the files with me.
Speaker 3: She tells me she'll think about it. Back in the newsroom,
Speaker 3: I update the team. Every one of them is struck
Speaker 3: by some different terrible detail. Adam Ilmark.
Speaker 8: He was providing drugs to people Sarah's brother included, who
Speaker 8: was a minor. And you know, this is a really
Speaker 8: damning critical detail, Sarah Parvini.
Speaker 1: Here's a young woman who you know is struggling not
Speaker 1: only with substance issues, but also this imbalance of power.
Speaker 1: She wasn't too far an age for me. It's hard
Speaker 1: to turn away from something like that.
Speaker 4: Matt Hamilton, what she was describing was multipole, deliberate efforts
Speaker 4: to even when she is at a facility to try
Speaker 4: to break her addiction, he is enabling it. That to
Speaker 4: me was outrageous. This is just someone who's simultaneously entrusted
Speaker 4: with shepherding the education of people of the same age,
Speaker 4: and it just he's a doctor.
Speaker 3: Mary Anne Warren is worried that if she hands over
Speaker 3: the photos and videos of Pullia Fido and her daughter
Speaker 3: Sarah will feel betrayed, and Pulliafido might come after the family.
Speaker 3: So I suggest a compromise. The Times can describe the
Speaker 3: images in the article, but not publish them. She's reassured
Speaker 3: to some extent. She says she'll look for a good
Speaker 3: example to send me. I wait, I follow up, I
Speaker 3: wait some more, and finally I get a text from
Speaker 3: her with a screenshot from one of the videos. It's
Speaker 3: an image I'm not likely to forget.
Speaker 4: It was like a photo of Puliafido with a pipe.
Speaker 4: You just see him hovering over this pipe and there
Speaker 4: was like white smoke. I remember thinking, okay, that's not
Speaker 4: about a school dean. It just was so different from
Speaker 4: this man that you saw on the US website or
Speaker 4: images of some charity function.
Speaker 3: It was just like, okay, wow. Mary Anne sends six
Speaker 3: more photos, all showing Puliafidos smoking meth. We have more
Speaker 3: than enough. It's time to write the story and get
Speaker 3: it out there. Harriet Ryan tackles the first draft.
Speaker 6: Carmen Pullifedo, the dean of US's Tech Medical School, arrived
Speaker 6: at the Galla fundraiser at the Beverly Wilshore Hotel a
Speaker 6: year and a half ago, with the confidence of a
Speaker 6: man totally in his elements, he moved through the crowd
Speaker 6: of celebrities like Pierce Brosen and Don Henley and wealthy
Speaker 6: school donors like Dana and David Dornsite, shaking hands and
Speaker 6: posing for photos, and delivering the message that had become
Speaker 6: a refrain in his eight years in office, USC was
Speaker 6: climbing into the ranks of the country's most elite research institutions.
Speaker 6: In the less refined setting of the Van Nuys Courthouse.
Speaker 6: A few days earlier, a convicted methamphetamine a heroin dealer
Speaker 6: named Kyle Voy was told to write his contact information
Speaker 6: on court form. The address he scrawled was a sprawling,
Speaker 6: five million dollar mansion in one of Pasadena's Tonius neighborhoods,
Speaker 6: Pullifido's residence.
Speaker 3: The next day, Mary Anne calls to tell me that
Speaker 3: she's just heard from Pulliofido. He's invited her to lunch.
Speaker 3: Mary Anne Warren tells me that Pulli Affido says he
Speaker 3: wants to talk to her about Sarah and the La Times,
Speaker 3: and though it doesn't make a lot of sense, he's worried.
Speaker 3: Pulliafido somehow knows he's been talking to me, but this
Speaker 3: lunch with Pulliofido is a chance to get him to
Speaker 3: talk about his relationship with Sarah and what he knows
Speaker 3: about our investigation. In a perfect world, should record the
Speaker 3: whole thing, but in the state of California, you need
Speaker 3: permission to record a private conversation, so that's out. But
Speaker 3: a reporter might be able to overhear them, heavesdrop and
Speaker 3: take notes. We wouldn't be able to quote the conversation
Speaker 3: because mary Anne wants to remain anonymous, but it would
Speaker 3: be a major help for our reporting and give us
Speaker 3: the backup we need. So we decide someone needs to
Speaker 3: go undercover. But who would it be? Clearly not me,
Speaker 3: we decide on Sarah Parvini and Adam il Marik.
Speaker 8: Paul had tried to reach Balafido numerous times by then,
Speaker 8: and so that would have just been too obvious, and
Speaker 8: so we figured he's not going to recognize us, and
Speaker 8: we could pull this off.
Speaker 1: Kind of felt like this good old fashioned kind of
Speaker 1: journalism of you know, following the quote unquote bad guy
Speaker 1: and getting the information that you need.
Speaker 3: We look for a restaurant that's big enough for multiple
Speaker 3: tables to be available and a time eleven thirty am
Speaker 3: when a nearby table might be empty. We land on
Speaker 3: a place called the Blue Gold, a cavernous steak and
Speaker 3: seafood restaurant in Huntington Beach.
Speaker 1: I remember, you know, driving down to this mall where
Speaker 1: the restaurant was and meeting up with Adam, meeting up
Speaker 1: with Paul, having a huddle before walking in.
Speaker 3: Mary Am will go in first after pull thea Fido arrives,
Speaker 3: Sarah and Adam will try to sit at the next table.
Speaker 3: They'll look like any California couple. But if pull the
Speaker 3: Afido senses something's off and confronts them, they'll have to
Speaker 3: admit their journalists for the la times. Those are the rules.
Speaker 3: I'll be waiting in the car as they text me updates.
Speaker 3: Fifteen minutes go by, then finally he shows up.
Speaker 8: We actually waited outside for him to walk in, and
Speaker 8: then we kind of followed in a couple minutes later
Speaker 8: and sat at the table next to the It was,
Speaker 8: you know, a nice kind of a bit of scale
Speaker 8: kind of a restaurant, had kind of a Mediterranean menu.
Speaker 1: Adam and I ordered chuck schuka, which was funny for
Speaker 1: us because we're about Middle Eastern and we just sat
Speaker 1: there and we listened.
Speaker 8: He seemed kind of disheveled. This is a superstar medical
Speaker 8: school dean, you know, and he did not come across
Speaker 8: that way. He started to hear. You know, mary Anne
Speaker 8: just kind of really peppering him with questions and really
Speaker 8: trying to nail him down on certain things, like the
Speaker 8: fact that he was providing Sarah with drugs. I think
Speaker 8: he paused for a second and he said, I gave
Speaker 8: her the money for it, but he wouldn't actually admit
Speaker 8: to furnishing the drugs themselves. You know. He gave his
Speaker 8: story of how he believed he was the hero in
Speaker 8: all of this. He was trying to rescue Sarah.
Speaker 1: We were texting the team and like a group text
Speaker 1: updates about what we were hearing, and then also simultaneously
Speaker 1: taking notes he.
Speaker 8: Was giving her money for drugs. At the very least,
Speaker 8: they had a long term kind of arrangement.
Speaker 1: Picking up on tone, picking up on sort of intention,
Speaker 1: you get the vibe of this person, of this relationship,
Speaker 1: of the sort of trying to cover his tracks, try
Speaker 1: to sort of smooth things over. Even that in and
Speaker 1: of itself, if we couldn't quote from any of the conversation.
Speaker 2: It told us so much.
Speaker 3: Mary Anne presses Pull Your Fido about the incident at
Speaker 3: the hotel constance. She says, when you see someone passed out,
Speaker 3: you call nine to one one. Pull Your Fido responds,
Speaker 3: I'm glad I did what I did. I didn't try
Speaker 3: to make a big deal out of it. When Marianne
Speaker 3: confronts him about delivering drugs to Sarah in rehab, he
Speaker 3: doesn't deny it. He even admits that at least two
Speaker 3: other people have been kicked out of rehab because of
Speaker 3: his drug deliveries.
Speaker 1: There was this almost boastful quality to when Puliafido was
Speaker 1: speaking with Mary Anne about the things that he had done,
Speaker 1: when she would kind of try to pull it out
Speaker 1: of him, like, oh, and do you remember when this happened,
Speaker 1: and he would just sort of step right into it
Speaker 1: and almost be proud.
Speaker 3: Pullia Fido tells Mary Anne that the La Times is
Speaker 3: after him. Never talk to them, he warns her, and
Speaker 3: then he asks, are you sure you aren't talking to them?
Speaker 3: Cool as can be, Mary Anne says, why would I
Speaker 3: throw my daughter under the bus. The day after her
Speaker 3: lunch with Puliafido, mary Anne calls me. She's decided to
Speaker 3: show me the rest of the photos and videos on
Speaker 3: Sarah's laptop and phone, and she's finally told her husband
Speaker 3: Paul that she's been talking to me, only to find
Speaker 3: out that he's doctor b two. Late the next day, Sarah,
Speaker 3: Parvini and I had down to Huntingdon Beach to meet
Speaker 3: the Warrens, both of them together.
Speaker 1: It was late when we drove down together, Paul and
Speaker 1: I in the same car.
Speaker 3: Marianne has booked a conference room at the Hiatt for
Speaker 3: us to meet in along with the family therapist. We
Speaker 3: just want to do what's right, she says. The meeting
Speaker 3: is off the record. On the conference table, there's a
Speaker 3: laptop and a hard drive.
Speaker 5: It was like this long table where we basically got
Speaker 5: these little drives with the information on them.
Speaker 3: The Warrens agree that we can take the laptop, but
Speaker 3: we can't publish what's on it. Back in the newsroom, Sarah,
Speaker 3: Adam and Matt begins scrolling through dozens of videos and photos.
Speaker 3: There's a video date stamped the night before Sarah's overdose
Speaker 3: of her and Puliafido in the room at the hotel Constance.
Speaker 1: I remember just having to literally Google, like, what is
Speaker 1: a hot reil? What does this mean? It's a method
Speaker 1: of taking a methemphetamine where you heat it up and
Speaker 1: then you inhale it through your nose. It's like one
Speaker 1: of the most dangerous ways that you can do meth.
Speaker 3: In another video, Pulia, Fido and Sarah shotgun some myth.
Speaker 3: She calls him Tony. In another Fido tells Sarah he's
Speaker 3: working on getting more ecstasy, and Sarah tells him she
Speaker 3: had been arrested just the night before. I'm working on
Speaker 3: the X. Yeah, I know, think in jail.
Speaker 2: Oh, by the way, I went to jail last night.
Speaker 3: Tell you about that story. And then there's the ecstasy video.
Speaker 5: He is like in a tux dressed very nicely, and
Speaker 5: it's in this vertically kind of shot like selfie style video,
Speaker 5: and you know, he sticks his tongue out and there's
Speaker 5: there's a tab on there and he says, you know,
Speaker 5: the ball, I'm going to do some ecstasy before the ball.
Speaker 5: In the other footage that we had, we could tell
Speaker 5: that he was doing various drugs, but he's not sitting
Speaker 5: there talking about doing the drugs. There is something particularly
Speaker 5: striking about someone of their own admissions, saying this is
Speaker 5: what I'm doing. It essentially wraps it up in a
Speaker 5: bow for you.
Speaker 3: Needless to say, we're stunned by what we see. And
Speaker 3: then two days later I get another phone call Sarah
Speaker 3: Warren is ready to talk. Davon Maharaj and Mark Duvison
Speaker 3: deny that they did anything wrong in their handling of
Speaker 3: the USC investigation, and they maintained that any negative betrayal
Speaker 3: of their actions is false. Next time, on Fallen Angels,
Speaker 3: he was late.
Speaker 2: To seeing a patient because he was getting high.
Speaker 3: I finally speak to the young woman at the center
Speaker 3: of the story.
Speaker 2: I think the police found the drugs, Well, they just
Speaker 2: found the meth because Carmen, I guess, was able to
Speaker 2: hide the heroine. Then right before I overdosed, he was
Speaker 2: like trying to have sex with me, and then I
Speaker 2: think I just like passed out. I knew he had
Speaker 2: to get out of my life.
Speaker 3: But even with our main witness on the record, we
Speaker 3: face a battle to get the story out there.
Speaker 8: Said cutting the whistleblowers as unethical, and I don't. I
Speaker 8: can't stand by it.
Speaker 6: When I think about the class on Marx Walls, I
Speaker 6: just pictures just pulsating with the rage and frustration in
Speaker 6: that room.
Speaker 3: That's next time on Fallen Angels. Fallen Angels The Story
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Speaker 3: partnership with Best Case Studios. I'm Paul Pringle. This show
Speaker 3: is based on my book Bad City, Peril and Power
Speaker 3: in the City of Angels. Fallen Angels was written by
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