Introducing: Fallen Angels: A Story of California Corruption

Fallen Angels: A Story of California Corruption

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Society & Culture, True Crime

4.4 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 March 2024

⏱️ 2 minutes

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Summary

A mysterious drug overdose at a posh Pasadena hotel leads our host and LA Times investigative reporter, Paul Pringle, into Los Angeles’ darkest corridors of power and wealth. Pringle discovers that the dean of the University of Southern California's medical school is leading a secret double life. As Pringle and his team at the LA Times untangle a sordid web of lies, drugs, and greed, they encounter obstacles and resistance at every turn—from USC, law enforcement and even within their own organization. Fallen Angels explores how money and privilege can corrupt our most important institutions and destroy people's lives.

Fallen Angels: A Story of California Corruption is based on Pringle’s book, Bad City: Peril & Power in the City of Angels.

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0:00.0	He started talking about this incident that he witnessed.
0:05.0	It was not telling me that there was a cover-up, drugs and officials cover-up.
0:12.0	He couldn't believe it. officials cover up. up.
0:13.0	You couldn't believe it.
0:15.0	From I-hard Podcasts.
0:17.0	It's like the police knew.
0:18.0	It's like they knew who he was before they got here.
0:22.0	A story about money, power, and corruption at the
0:26.4	places we should trust the most. The medical school dean at USC was
0:31.6	leading a secret double life.
0:33.0	Is she's absolutely breathing?
0:36.0	I'm a doctor actually.
0:38.0	There's no way that that guy is a doctor.
0:41.0	I'm Paul Pringle, and I'm an investigative reporter for the
0:45.2	LA Times. Harry it's not someone who's rattled but there was something about
0:50.7	the call that rattled her. This is the story of an investigation
0:54.8	that starts in a hotel room in Pasadena, California
0:58.2	and reaches all the way to the top of two of the most powerful institutions
1:02.0	in the city of Los Angeles.
1:04.0	When people fall in line, they fall in line.
1:06.0	Only a month or two after the investigation began,
1:09.7	I received some strange visitors at my house.
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