Bad City: Peril and Power in the City of Angels
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Paul Pringle. (2022). Bad City: Peril and Power in the City of Angels. Celadon Books.

Paul Pringle. 2022. Bad City: Peril and Power in the City of Angels. Celadon Books.

Paul Pringle, Bad City: Peril and Power in the City of Angels. Celadon Books, 2022.

Paul Pringle. Bad City: Peril and Power in the City of Angels. Celadon Books, 2022.

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   • bioText: Paul Pringle is a Los Angeles Times reporter who specializes in investigating corruption. In 2019, he and two colleagues won the Pulitzer Prize in Investigative Reporting for their work uncovering the widespread sexual abuse by Dr. George Tyndall at the University of Southern California, an inquiry that grew out of their reporting the year before on Dr. Carmen Puliafito, dean of USC's medical school. Pringle was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2009 and a member of reporting teams that won Pulitzer Prizes in 2004 and 2011. Pringle won the George Polk Award in 2008, the same year the Society of Professional Journalists of Greater Los Angeles honored him as a distinguished journalist. Along with several colleagues, he shared in Harvard University's 2011 Worth Bingham Prize for Investigative Reporting. Pringle and a Times colleague won the California Newspaper Publishers Association's Freedom of Information Award in 2014 and the University of Florida's Joseph L. Brechner Freedom of Information Award in 2015. Pringle lives in Glendale, California.
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"Pringle's fast-paced book is a master class in investigative journalism... when institutions collude to protect one another, reporting may be our last best hope for accountability."
—The New York Times

For fans of Spotlight and Catch and Kill comes a nonfiction thriller about corruption and betrayal radiating across Los Angeles from one of the region's most powerful institutions, a riveting tale from a Pulitzer-prize winning journalist who investigated the shocking events and helped bring justice in the face of formidable odds.

On a cool, overcast afternoon in April 2016, a salacious tip arrived at the L.A. Times that reporter Paul Pringle thought should have taken, at most, a few weeks to check out: a drug overdose at a fancy hotel involving one of the University of Southern California's shiniest stars—Dr. Carmen Puliafito, the head of the prestigious medical school. Pringle, who'd long done battle with USC and its almost impenetrable culture of silence, knew reporting the story wouldn't be a walk in the park. USC is one of the biggest employers in L.A., and it casts a long shadow.
But what he couldn't have foreseen was that this tip would lead to the unveiling of not one major scandal at USC but two, wrapped in a web of crimes and cover-ups. The rot rooted out by Pringle and his colleagues at The Times would creep closer to home than they could have imagined—spilling into their own newsroom.
Packed with details never before disclosed, Pringle goes behind the scenes to reveal how he and his fellow reporters triumphed over the city's debased institutions, in a narrative that reads like L.A. noir. This is L.A. at its darkest and investigative journalism at its brightest.

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     July 25, 2022
     Los Angeles Times reporter Pringle debuts with an in-depth and often riveting account of sexual misconduct, drug abuse, corruption, and cover-ups in Southern California. Expanding on a story he broke in 2017, Pringle recounts how a Pasadena hotel manager’s dogged efforts to get someone to investigate what happened to a young woman who overdosed on crystal meth in the hotel room of Dr. Carmen Puliafito, the dean of the University of Southern California’s Keck School of Medicine, led to Puliafito’s resignation and the uncovering of decades of sexual abuse committed by George Tyndall, a gynecologist in USC’s student health clinic. Throughout, Pringle draws detailed and sympathetic portraits of the victims in both cases, including Sarah Warren, the woman who overdosed in Puliafito’s hotel room after meeting him through the website Backpage.com and becoming his “round-the-clock sugar baby,” and recounts in meticulous detail USC’s efforts to cover up the crimes. Part of these efforts included pressuring the leadership of the Los Angeles Times to kill the Puliafito story, and Pringle doesn’t hold back in criticizing how the newspaper’s executives allowed themselves to be compromised by moneyed interests in Southern California. It’s a crisp tale of institutional rot, dogged journalism, and heroic whistleblowing. Readers will be on the edge of their seats.

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     August 1, 2022
     The salacious tale of a major university mired in scandal. In 2016, Pulitzer Prize winner Pringle, a reporter for the Los Angeles Times since 2001, received a disturbing news tip: A young woman had overdosed in a Pasadena hotel, where she was staying with Dr. Carmen Puliafito, the well-known dean of the Keck Medical School at the University of Southern California. The police and fire departments arrived, and the woman was taken away, but there had been no reporting about the event, no charges filed about the drugs and paraphernalia found in the hotel room, and no information about whether the woman survived. Pringle recounts in vivid detail his monthslong investigation into the coverup and the obfuscation, stonewalling, and power dynamics that threatened to stop him. He and his colleagues documented, finally, a sordid story of corruption and duplicity that involved not only Puliafito, but also the police, prosecutors, USC administrators, and his own newspaper. "Arrogant, egomaniacal, and quick to anger," Puliafito had plied his young lover with drugs--bringing them to her even when she was in rehab programs--in order to keep his hold on her. As medical school dean, he hobnobbed with the rich and famous, including USC's "bloated board of trustees," which included "ultrarich industrialists, sports and entertainment moguls, bankers, construction barons, real estate investors, and financiers." The author also discovered that he was surrounded by a "circle of addicts and criminals." After Pringle wrote his story, he faced repeated frustration from his editors, who refused to publish a piece that would upset the imperious president of USC. The newsroom drama is as juicy as the dramas at the university. Besides the Puliafito affair, Pringle found out about a longtime gynecologist in the university's health services who sexually abused patients and, in an episode known as "Varsity Blues," how wealthy parents paid huge sums to have their children admitted as star athletes. A brisk chronicle of sex, lies, and betrayal.

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