Episode 4: The Secret Reporting Team

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My first reaction was, wow, what have I gotten myself into? A secret reporting team in defiance of the top editors who wanted to kill a story because maybe they were afraid of USC. That's Adam Elmarra, an investigative reporter for the L.A. Times. My editor, Matt Late, had just asked Adam and three other colleagues of mine to join this secret reporting team. I came home and told my wife what we were doing, and she was kind of terrified, I think. We were new parents. Why are we wanting to participate in some sort of secret rebellion? that's going to rock the boat? Is this really what you want to be doing? Devon Maharaj, editor-in-chief at the Times, just killed my piece on Carmen Pugliafido, the dean of the medical school at USC. The fact that Pugliafido was at a hotel doing meth and having sex with a young woman who overdosed, and that we had 911 recordings and firsthand accounts, apparently that wasn't enough. But Devon did say he was, theoretically, open to more reporting on it. Neither Matt nor I think he's serious about that, but we are. So this secret reporting team, with Adam and the three others, definitely runs the risk of pissing off our top editors. Adam's only been at the paper for seven months, and this is an important moment for him. Look, I didn't get into journalism to be making a lot of money and for a stable career. If you want a stable career and you want to make a lot of money and all of that, I mean, journalism is really not for you. I knew that I had to participate in this effort to get this story published. Otherwise, it would just betray my core values, why I'm a journalist in the first place.

My name is Paul Pringle. I'm an investigative reporter for the L.A. Times. This is Fallen Angels.

I wasn't really thinking about the risks. I was thinking about getting the story done and doing what it took to get it published. That's kind of how I felt about it. Matt Laite is my editor on the Poliofilo story. It was Matt's idea to put together this team and keep it out of sight of Davon and his deputy, Mark Duvison. Shelby Grad, another editor, quietly supports us. The first reporter we go to is Harriet Ryan. She's an expert at digging up documents. I worked at Court TV. I was there for nine years. I learned about court records, how to get them from any court, any small town or federal or whatever, and just find the records. And court records are just filled with little diamonds of information. Harriet gets that there's some risk to what we're doing. But she isn't phased. I don't add the element of a caper. It seemed righteous because I knew the management was just so awful. She had worked on a big investigation into Purdue Pharma, the makers of OxyContin. And she remembers how the editors took two full years to publish it. I'm not a bomb thrower or a revolutionary by nature, but by that point, when some of the things happened with Poliofilo, the echoes of Oxy and of just being treated so poorly just came rolling back.

Matt Hamilton had been part of the Times Pulitzer Prize winning coverage of the San Bernardino terrorist attack. He understands that this Poliofilo story has to be handled carefully. It was clear to us that it was sensitive, that it was explosive. I do remember the instruction that this was to be discreet, to be confidential.

The assignment, it was clear, was coming from Shelby and Matt late. I don't know what the hell they told the people above them, but it wasn't an assignment that was coming from Mark or Davon.

Matt's in his 20s. Just a few years ago, he was an intern. One reason he agrees to join our team is to work with people like Harriet Ryan. I knew her work. I knew her byline. I had heard her on the radio. I was just intimidated by her because she's so good. I felt a high degree of pressure to deliver. Sarah Parvini is also in her 20s. She'd worked with Matt on the San Bernardino stories. And, like Matt, Sarah got her journalism degree at USC's Annenberg School. I went to USC when I moved to L.A. as a graduate student in the journalism program. And it only became more obvious that USC was really a player in the city. I personally had a great experience attending Annenberg. I had excellent professors who taught me a lot. When it came time to investigate USC and investigate what the institution itself knew, it's not hard to separate, at least in my mind, your experience as a student versus your experience as a journalist. And I think part of the reason why Paul had turned to me and had thought of Matt as well was because we sort of understood a little bit about how USC worked, having gone there for grad school. Like Matt, she jumps at the chance to work with the veteran reporters, though we do make her nervous. It was just intimidating to be a young reporter working with the likes of Paul and Harriet, who are incredible investigative journalists and incredible writers, to sort of be thrown in with them and say, well, you know, go do this. It was intimidating in that aspect.

The first meeting was just sort of a rundown of what Paul had already accomplished and what he had already found out. Immediately. people are like, well, have you tried this? Have you tried this? And I just remember being around this comically large conference table. It was just like the five of us, and we were just like off and running from that point. I remember Harriet basically saying, there's two routes we go here. We go through U.S., like we shake a bunch of trees, or we find the girl. The girl. Her name is Sarah, and that's all we've got. Devon Kahn, who worked at the Hotel Constance, told me that she was blonde and she was young, probably in her 20s. And the last time we had seen her, she was being wheeled out of the hotel on a gurney. Everyone, on their own accord, did what we call a scrud, where you read the story, you read everything Paul's forwarding to us, and just do some initial digging based on your own instincts.

And I remember Sarah and I taking an approach by scrubbing their social media and other digital footprints. Poliofido's friend list on Facebook was public. We were kind of going through and seeing usual suspects, like medical professionals, people in the Pasadena community. But then we find these really odd characters in his Facebook friends.

It's like people with a bunch of tattoos, just palpably different people. How is that person? friends with Poliofido? Who lives in a very tony area of Pasadena, is a top official at USC, and you just see people that look like they're from the other side of the train tracks, so to speak. It struck us as like, what's the connection? It was like, this is a girl who looks like she might be an escort. We were going through that specifically to find people named Sarah, or a name that sounded like Sarah, or young women with blonde hair. Paul would forward them to Devin Kahn and be like, is this her? Is this her? Is this her?

Paul starts sending me photographs, and I'm telling him, no, this isn't her. I have the Times Library again do sweeps of public record databases. None of the names from Facebook checks out. But suddenly, for the first time, there's a woman named Sarah, linked to Poliofido in those databases. Sarah Warren, 22 years old, listed as a, quote, associate. I searched Sarah Warren on Facebook. There are a lot of them. But there's one who's young and blonde, and lives in Pasadena. I text her photo to Devin Kahn. After sending me, I think, maybe two or three photos, eventually he sends me a photo of Sarah, and I'm like, that's her. It's been a year since the overdose at the Hotel Constance. Ten and a half months since I met Devin Kahn, and four months since I filed the first draft of my story. Now, finally, we found Sarah. But who is she? And how did she end up in that room doing drugs with the high-flying dean of the medical school at USC?

Hi, it's Andrea Gunning, host of Betrayal. I'm excited to announce that the Betrayal podcast is expanding. We are going to be releasing episodes weekly, every Thursday. Each week, you'll hear brand-new stories. First-hand accounts of shocking deception, broken trust, and the trail of destruction left behind. Stories about regaining a sense of safety, a handle on reality, after your entire world is flipped upside down. From unbelievable romantic betrayals... The love that was so real for me was always just a game for him. ...to betrayals in your own family... When I think about my dad, oh, well, he is a sociopath. ...financial betrayal... This is not even the part where he steals millions of dollars. ...and life-or-death deceptions. She's practicing how she's going to cry when the police calls her after they kill me.

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Each member of the reporting team is working a different angle. Harriet Ryan is digging into USC's relationship with Carmen Pulido. Is USC protecting this guy? And, if so, why? We've been trying to figure out, why is USC so invested in this guy? Just cut him loose if he has all these problems. One of the things we were looking at was the role that he played in this lawsuit between the University of California at San Diego and USC.

USC, under Max Nikias and under Carmen Pulido at the medical school, had this focus on transformative faculty. So they were not going to gradually work their way up the ladder of prestigious research institutions. They wanted to jump stairs. And a very efficient way to do that is to lure Alzheimer's and brain researchers to their universities with their hundreds of millions of dollars grant funding. Carmen Pulido knew this would make Max Nikias very happy if he could get some of these guys. He brought two brain researchers from UCLA to USC. It was a very secretive and overnight raiding of this lab at UCLA. And UCLA was so upset that USC quietly paid a $2 million confidential settlement, which is a lot of money, but nothing compared to the research dollars that USC was getting. And then Pulido trained his sights on this very prestigious, enormous lab at UCSD, San Diego, which was run by Paul Azen. And USC just took the entire lab. They arranged for everybody to just move over to working for USC without actually leaving San Diego. They would just become USC faculty, USC researchers. They pulled this off so covertly and so totally that there was an allegation that they actually even took the paperclips from the lab at UCSD. They took everything, like the personnel, the file folders.

UCSD is devastated. It's hundreds of millions of dollars, like more than $300 million of federal funding. But UCSD decides to do something, which is that they filed a lawsuit against USC. You have two big academic schools fighting over this poaching of academic stars, and a key witness in that case was going to be Carmen Pulido. It wouldn't help USC's case if it became publicly known that this key witness had been caught up in a drug overdose of a young woman in a hotel room. And $340 million in grant funding is a big incentive to keep things quiet. So at the time that the school forces him out and has to reckon with all of his problems, the highest levels of the university knows that he's a key witness in this big case that UC has brought against USC. And the University of California is seeking like $180 million in damages. They want serious compensation. And key to adjudicating this is going to be the testimony of Carmen Pulido.

So when you think about when USC's like weighing, like, what are we going to do about Pulido? One thing it has to weigh is like, we're going to need this guy to testify for us.

Meanwhile, Adam, Matt, and Sarah are looking for connections between Pulido and Sarah Warren. She's still the only one who can really tell us what happened in that hotel room. We started scrubbing Sarah Warren and her family. There was some case involving Sarah in Texas that we found records for. And then I looked through the database and saw Sarah Warren had been arrested several times in L.A. County. That revealed a number of other cases that we have to pull records for. Sarah Warren had several arrests in L.A. County. She was in and out of rehabs. She had been signed up on like a sugar baby kind of website. And that it was associated with an email address that we had found in court documents. So what we knew of Sarah was what we had seen in the court filings in terms of rehab and then also the association with this sugar baby website. The website is called Humaniplex and it's for prostitution. So Sarah Warren is or has been a sex worker. What was most interesting to me was her attorneys in these cases were very reputable private counsel. She wasn't using public defenders. Someone's paying for her lawyers. And someone's paying for these very tony rehabs. Like this is not like state insurance funded rehab centers. This is like high end rehab centers. Then we find something else. In one court filing we discovered that Sarah had been arrested with someone named Kyle Voigt. I was entering names from the Venmo list and the Facebook page into our internal database, being like maybe there's a hit here. And I eventually struck gold with Kyle Voigt. There were several arrests and they were all drug related, possession, identity theft. It wasn't one arrest for like a DOI. This was someone who had a criminal record, an extensive one. And he was friends with Paulie Fido in some way or associated with him. He didn't have a lot of Venmo friends, but one of them was Kyle Voigt. Kyle Voigt, who had been arrested 15 times in the past seven years, pleading guilty or no contest to possession for sale of meth, heroin, oxycodone, fentanyl, and ecstasy. So Matt digs into Kyle's court records. I knew the clerk at the Valley Courthouse and she let me come back. And I remember sitting there and kind of going through the pages, figuring out what's important. And I remember seeing a court form that he filled out and he put an address in Pasadena on those roadblades. And I'm thinking, that address looks really familiar. And it's Paulie Fido's address. Why would he list this $5 million mansion in Pasadena? Kyle Voigt, a small-time drug dealer, lists this address. How is Kyle Voigt, who appears to be arrested on a semi-frequent basis in the orbit of USC's medical school team? All the reporters on this team have covered crime stories. This kind of low-level drug dealing is pretty routine, and it's not much of a story. What makes this different is Paulie Fido, an important guy bringing in hundreds of millions of dollars to USC, doing meth and delicate eye surgeries.

Turns out. Kyle Voigt is sitting in Men's Central Jail, so Sarah Parvini and Adam Elmarek decide to pay him a visit.

I had never gone to a jail or a prison before to speak with someone who was incarcerated there. That was definitely intimidating. Adam and I went down together. It's kind of like, what else does he have to do? He's sitting there in jail. I was very glad to have Adam there with me, because Adam had way more experience as an investigative reporter than I did. We basically had to request the time, and then Kyle would have to be okay with speaking to us. I remember just being shocked that Kyle would even speak with us. He's behind the plexiglass. It's a visitor's kind of room where it's just rows of plexiglass. And you have to pick up the phone, and he picks up the phone. And so you start talking to him through the phone behind the glass. We had to disclose who we were. We had to disclose that it was for a story that we were working on. We were investigating USC. We were investigating Puglietito. But he almost seemed shocked.

Almost like, hey, how did you find this out? How did you link us together? How do you know Sarah? How do you know Carmen? He was a reluctant kind of source, so he would kind of just kind of sit there and listen, and then maybe say something. We were able to confirm that this is not a one-off kind of relationship. This is Puglietito regularly associating with this circle of drug users, and, in his case, a dealer. We called him Tony. He said that Tony's always there. Kyle tells Sarah and Adam that Sarah Warren is his girlfriend. They hang out in Pasadena and Huntington Beach with a bunch of other drug users, and Puglietito is part of their scene. The reporters ask Kyle about some of the other names they've come across on Puglietito's social media, people who seem out of place in a world of money and prestige, and Kyle knows a lot of them. We would drop a name of one of, you know, Puglietito's associates, and he would go, oh, yeah, you know, I remember so-and-so, or, oh, yeah, wow, you know that person? But what's strange is that, even though this Tony is someone they hang out with all the time and he's listed on Kyle's counsel form, Kyle seems to hate him. He says that Carmen Puglietito is a, quote, monster. He would make sort of ominous kind of remarks. He would say Carmen's evil, that the guy is, he's a really bad guy. He noted that the relationship between Sarah Warren and Carmen Puglietito was a toxic one. Kyle won't confirm that he sells drugs to Puglietito, but he says he has plenty of dirt on the former dean. Kyle did in that moment tell us that there were photos or videos or both that would link Puglietito to basically what we were investigating, to his relationship with Sarah Warren, his relationship with others, including Kyle, in this sort of circle of partying and doing drugs.

What Kyle Hoyt gave us was enough of an indication to know that the medical school dean at USC was leading a secret double life with this circle of people, which all of a sudden makes the story much more interesting than one night in a hotel room. And it'll make it that much harder for Dave Ununmarked to kill the next draft of this story. You can write a story that explains why having a powerful person who's also an eye surgeon, in a position overseeing young students and doing all these drugs and associating with criminals is not an ideal situation. Hi, it's Andrea Gunning, host of Betrayal. I'm excited to announce that the Betrayal podcast is expanding. We are going to be releasing episodes weekly, every Thursday. Each week, you'll hear brand new stories. First-hand accounts of shocking deception, broken trust, and the trail of destruction left behind. Stories about regaining a sense of safety, a handle on reality after your entire world is flipped upside down. From unbelievable romantic betrayals. The love that was so real for me was always just a game for him. To betrayals in your own family. When I think about my dad, oh, well, he is a sociopath. Financial betrayal. This is not even the part where he steals millions of dollars. And life or death deceptions. She's practicing how she's going to cry when the police calls her after they kill me.

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The podium is back. With fresh angles and deep dives into Olympic and Paralympic stories you know. And those you'll be hard pressed to forget. I did something in 88 that hasn't been beaten. Oh gosh. The U.S. Olympic Trials is the hardest and most competitive meet in the world. We are athletes. We're going out there, smashing into each other, full force. Listen to The Podium on the iHeart app or your favorite podcast platform, weekly and every day during the Games, to hear the Olympics like you've never quite heard them before. In the summer of 2020, in the small mountain town of Idlewild, California, five women disappeared in the span of just a few months. Eventually, I found out what happened to the women. All except one. A woman named Lydia Abrams, known as Dia. Her friends and family ran through endless theories. Was she hurt, hiking? Did she run away? Had she been kidnapped? I'm Lucy Sheriff. I've been reporting this story for four years and I've uncovered a tangled web of manipulation, estranged families, and greed. Everyone, it seems, has a different version of events. Hear the story on. Where's Dia, my new podcast from Pushkin Industries, an iHeart podcast. Listen on the iHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts.

I think there was an initial idea that we would be able to turn this around pretty quickly. Reporter, Harriet, Ryan. And so, on. any given day, Sarah and Adam would be out doing one thing and then Paul would be doing something else and Matt would be doing something, and then we would be writing. and it just seemed like the days were really full of activity. But we still need to keep our reporting under wraps. We made sure that we couldn't be seen. We met a lot of the time in a little office that was just kind of a spare room. It was kind of out of the way. We would meet in a cafeteria. We took steps to make sure that it wasn't obvious that we were all working together on something major. Then, Matt Laite, who championed the creation of the team, tells us he's leaving the LA Times for a job at CNN. That news was just kind of like a, well, who's going to edit us now? Who is going to sort of be the steward of this investigation at the editor level and ensure that it's what we want it to be? And who's going to have our back when Dave and I'm Mark find out what we've been working on? I was devastated. I'm still devastated. There's part of me that still thinks of Matt Laite as my editor, even though we haven't worked together in a long time. He's a great person, a kind person, a great reporter. On the Oxy story, when I was left alone, I was the last reporter working on it. Matt would come on doorknocks with me and stand next to me, just so I wouldn't have to go by myself. Like, he's just a great person. And I just, I couldn't believe it.

Matt leaving makes us feel like the clock is running out on this team. We've got to nail this story down, make it bulletproof, because he won't be there to fight for it.

Discovering the rehab came from the court files. I remember going through files and seeing names of different rehab facilities. Through court records, Sarah Parvini has been tracking Sarah Warren's various stints in rehab. Over the past 13 months, there was Palm Strings in Malibu and San Juan Capistrano. The most recent is in Newport Beach. The place is called Ocean Recovery. Like the lawyers, it's not cheap, and that makes us think there's got to be someone bankrolling it. Sarah Warren checked into Ocean Recovery three months ago. Most rehabs run a 30-day program, but Sarah Parvini sees that Ocean Recovery also offers a 90-day package, so she might still be there.

We decide to make the hour-long drive down to Newport Beach and see for ourselves.

It was a very dramatic, overcast kind of day. Paul and I had driven down from L.A. to, this place looked like an apartment complex, but it was some sort of recovery kind of place.

We parked in front of the building, we walked up to it. At the threshold, there was someone who basically was like, what are you guys doing here? Of course, we can't pretend that we aren't journalists looking for information, so we disclosed that. And, of course, that person was like, well, I can't discuss anyone with you for medical privacy reasons.

There were some people who were outside of the building who looked like they were staying there, and Paul asked if Sarah Warren was there or had been there. One of them said something like, well, she's not here right now. We had had the confirmation that Sarah, even if she wasn't there in that moment, had been staying there. To get that confirmation for us was huge, because it meant the thread that we were pulling at was unraveling the way that we wanted it to. This is as close as we've been able to get to Sarah Warren, and we've tried everything, sending her messages on social media, phone calls, door-knocking addresses she's associated with. We have one more way in. Her family. Public records show that the Warrens live in Huntington Beach, a town that calls itself Surf City, USA. It's about an hour southeast of downtown L.A. Sarah's father, Paul, is an executive for a logistics company. Her mother, Marianne, has a master's degree from Pepperdine. She's got a teenage brother, Charles. Matt Hamilton, and I take the drive down the coast.

So we show up to the Huntington Beach neighborhood of the Warren family, and it's, I would say, a quintessential Orange County neighborhood. It's a gated community, but it's in a pretty isolated area. It's close to the water, kind of stucco-y townhouses, Italianate. Given the neighborhood, the Warrens seem like a typical upper-middle-class Southern California family. We drove to the different entry points to this gated community, just trying to figure out, like, how are we going to do this? We make our way to the Warrens' house and knock on the front door. No answer. Then a young man appears at the door of the garage. It's Sarah's brother, Charles. Paul gives the spiel, like a reporter from the Los Angeles Times. We're trying to talk to Sarah. It's a story about Dr. Carmen Polifito, the dean of USC's medical school.

Charles Warren rolled up the sleeves of his T-shirt, said almost nothing, but pointed to a tattoo that said, no snitches.

Just remember being shocked, because this is well-to-do community, gated near the coast of Huntington Beach, very lily-white Orange County community, and here's this teenager acting tough and macho, with a tattoo, like, ready to go, saying no snitches. I didn't know if he was joking or not, and if it was just kind of imitating bug culture, or if he was serious, and he was totally serious. We have a feeling why USC might want to protect Carmen Polifito. The prestige, the money, the risk of scandal. But what about this 17-year-old kid from Orange County? What does the good doctor have on him?

Devon Maharaj and Mark Duvison deny that they did anything wrong in their handling of the USC investigation, and they maintain that any negative portrayal of their actions is false.

Next time. on Fallen Angels. Polifito had given him meth, 25 to 50 bars of Xanax. The deeper we look, the darker it gets. Here's a young woman who is struggling not only with substance issues, but also this imbalance of power. She was discharged, but relapsed on the ride home with Polifito because he gave her meth and alcohol. But the people who should be most concerned seem to have different priorities. We told them we're two reporters from the LA Times. We'd like to speak with President Diaz, but of course we were turned away. The money was arriving so fast. They didn't have time for two LA Times reporters. That's next time on Fallen Angels.

Fallen Angels, a story of California corruption, is a production of iHeart Podcast in partnership with Best Case Studios. I'm Paul Pringle. This show is based on my book, Bad City, Peril and Power in the City of Angels. Fallen Angels was written by Isabel Evans, Adam Pincus, and Brent Katz. Isabel Evans is our producer. Brent Katz is co-producer. Associate producers are Hanna Leibovitz-Lockard and Anpaho Locke. Executive producers are me, Paul Pringle, Joe Piccarello, and Adam Pincus for Best Case Studios. Original music is by James Newberry. This episode was edited by Max Michael Miller. Additional editing, sound design, and additional music by Dean White. Harriet Ryan, Matt Hamilton, Sarah Parvini, and Adam Elmarek are consulting producers. Our iHeart team is Allie Perry and Carl Kadle. Follow and rate Fallen Angels wherever you get your podcasts.

Hi, it's Andrea Gunning, the host of Betrayal. I'm excited to announce that the Betrayal podcast is expanding. We are going to be releasing episodes weekly, every Thursday. Each week, you'll hear brand new stories, firsthand, accounts of shocking deception, broken trust, and the trail of destruction left behind. Listen to Betrayal's new podcast, or listen to Betrayal Weekly on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

One of the most dangerous fugitives in the world. Robert Fisher. Do you recognize my voice? Listen to Missing in Arizona every Wednesday on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your favorite shows. The podium is back with fresh angles and deep dives into Olympic and Paralympic stories you know, and those you'll be hard-pressed to forget. I did something in 88 that hasn't been beaten. Oh, gosh. The U.S. Olympic trials is the hardest and most competitive meet in the world. We are athletes. We're going out there, smashing into each other full force. Listen to The Podium on the iHeart app, or your favorite podcast platform, weekly and every day during the Games, to hear the Olympics like you've never quite heard them before. In 2020, in a small California mountain town, five women disappeared. I found out what happened to all of them, except one. A woman known as Dia, whose estate is worth millions of dollars. I'm Lucy Sheriff. Over the past four years, I've spoken with Dia's family and friends, and I've discovered that everyone has a different version of events. Hear the story on Where's Dia. Listen on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen to podcasts.