are made possible by generous people like you. When she spoke with the coroners investigator at the scene, Yoder did not mention contacting a man in Pasadena for help, according to the investigators report. He claimed in his testimony that he was no longer in close touch with Yoder and had cut off contact with other members of his drug-using circle. It describes his year-long struggle to get the story published over the objections of his superiors at the Times, who did not want to offend USC. Detectives went to Puliafitos home, but he declined to talk and referred them to a criminal defense attorney. The article says Buffalo native Dr. Carmen A. Puliafito, who was the Dean of the Keck School of Medicine, used methamphetamine and other drugs with criminals during . Still, she noted, no meth should be present in an infant.. Paul Pringle. In the case of the newborn, Boaz Yoder, Puliafito paid the rent on Dora Yoders Altadena duplex, where the baby died. He was, his lawyer noted, one of the foremost ophthalmologists in the world. The physician, whose license was suspended in September 2017, promised that if he was allowed to practice again, he would devote himself to treating the underserved Latino population in East L.A. On the witness stand at a hearing in June 2018, nine months after Boazs death, Puliafito portrayed himself as completely rehabilitated and said he hadnt used drugs in almost a year. They later learned that a private investigator and another person working on the doctors behalf had contacted members of the Yoder family, according to interviews and documents reviewed by The Times. This website is using a security service to protect itself from online attacks. The agreement was reached four months after a Times investigation disclosed Puliafitos relationship with Warren and a circle of other young addicts and criminals. lengthy piece on USCs major ethical lapses. Yoder gave birth last year to a second child, a girl, with Franko, according to birth records. As is the norm for homicide detectives, the pair were responsible for more than a dozen investigations at any given time. Khan did. She has covered six presidential elections and served as bureau chief in San Francisco and Seattle. Duvoisin said the companys lawyer, Jeff Glasser, advised that those details be omitted because the evidence didnt really support regularly using and that they should stick to a more conservative description of what the evidence was., Pringle said Maharaj and Duvoisin ordered the attorney to go into the story and come up with the most conservative version. John Manly, an Orange County attorney who negotiated an $852-million settlement with USC in the sex abuse case involving campus gynecologist George Tyndall, agreed. A photo time-stamped 3 a.m. shows a convicted drug dealer named Kyle Voigt and Warren in Puliafitos office at Keck. Maharaj remains in Southern California, where he said he is involved in several journalism and literary projects. Though assigned to the homicide unit, Davis and Morse sometimes were dispatched to accidents, suicides or other sudden deaths that, in the end, werent found to be criminal in nature. From 2007 until March 2016, he was dean of the Keck School of Medicine of USC. Cloudflare Ray ID: 78bba401eaef915f Without that, the prosecutor and the detectives concluded they could not take the investigation further. The University of Southern California paid Dr. Carmen Puliafito, its former medical school dean, nearly $1 million in severance along with a bonus, according to tax filings disclosed this week. She did not respond to interview requests. Absolutely, Puliafito says. We were investigating a criminal case, and if there was evidence of said criminal activity we were investigating, I definitely would have been interested in seeing it.. Gen. Rebecca Smith asked. Maharaj called assertions that decisions about The Times coverage of USC ever tilted in the universitys favor ridiculous. I and the other honorable senior editors who worked with me would never let any person or entity, including USC, dictate any aspect of our coverage, he said. In that period, Puliafito talked three times to Franko, who was himself in and out of jail on drug-related charges, according to the testimony. Find Dr. Puliafito's address and more. After a coroners toxicology test found traces of meth in the 25-day-old boys blood, the detectives embarked on a lengthy investigation into whether Puliafito was the source of the meth. His largesse included funding Warrens drug habit, she later wrote in a sworn affidavit. Pringle wanted to confirm that Puliafito had been demoted because of the overdose and subsequent Times reporting. [9] According to the newspaper, a 21-year-old prostitute had overdosed while taking drugs with Puliafito in a Pasadena hotel room on March 4, 2016; the article included a recording of a conversation between a 911 operator and Puliafito. The chief investigator in the medical board inquiry refused to sign Burnleys memo, according to an email exchange between the prosecutor and the state attorney generals office that The Times recently obtained under the California Public Records Act. Every time you would interview one person, they would mention another person in this little world.. A report, left, filled out by an investigator at the scene of Boaz Yoders death on Oct. 5, 2017, shows shading on a diagram of the infants body, which represents discolorations on the babys chest and face from, (Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner). Mike Davis and Gene Morse into a murky world of desperate young addicts and small-time drug dealers with a disgraced multimillionaire at the center: Dr. Carmen Puliafito, former dean of USCs Keck School of Medicine. There's no question it was a slog getting the Puliafito story published. Deputy Dist. Much of this activity occurred while he was dean, and it is a shocking story: A 66 year . [2], Born and raised Buffalo, New York, Puliafito received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard College in 1973 and a Doctor of Medicine from Harvard Medical School in 1978. The prosecutor asked about others Voigt, the dealer in jail; an addict named Ashley; a Santa Monica heroin user named Nicole. Federal grand juries in L.A., for example, indicted three men last year on charges of providing the drugs that killed rapper Mac Miller and charged activist Ed Buck in two overdose deaths. Puliafito denied doing so, and the investigation closed in 2020 with no charges filed against Puliafito or the mother, Dora Yoder. Pringle's new book, "Bad City: Peril and Power in the City of Angels," recounts his pursuit of a story about Carmen Puliafito, a former dean of the University of Southern California's medical . As detectives worked, a blood sample taken from Boazs heart awaited testing in the lab of the L.A. County medical examiner-coroner. During its investigation of Puliafitos drug use, the Medical Board of California obtained a large number of the videos and photos. One bill to which he contributed outlawed secrecy pacts in sexual abuse cases. Eventually he emailed the Pasadena city attorney. He has not seen USCs settlement agreement with the Warren family nor does he have any knowledge regarding its specific contents, the attorney, Stacy Harrison, wrote. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times) It is a myth, it is an invention, and it is, frankly, pathetic that five years after the story was published with all this going on in the world, were still talking about this.. Nothing happened. Here was a practicing eye surgeon who was using meth and heroin and providing those drugs to desperate young people. The deal, which forbids the Warrens from ever publicly discussing it or their dealings with Puliafito and USC, was struck as the #MeToo movement took hold across the country and highlighted criticism of financial settlements that silenced victims of sexual abuse and harassment. Franko, a felon described in a police report that year as a daily user of methamphetamine and heroin, lived about 20 miles away in Sherman Oaks with his parents. In addition to his extensive academic achievements, Dr. Puliafito also earned an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. A board spokesman declined to comment and did not answer questions about the images its investigators obtained or whether they knew about the agreement that allowed USC to destroy the images on the Warrens devices. Boaz weighed 10 pounds and was carefully dressed in a blue-and-white onesie and matching socks, according to a report by the coroners investigator. It should be unethical for a lawyer to do this.. Pringle said yes. A recent study of 27 retina practices including more than 300 retinal specialists in the United States found that more than half of all visits to retina practices (52%) were for macular degeneration or retinal vascular disease (A. Moshfeghi, MD). Former Los Angeles County Dist. The last stop for the investigation was the coroners office on Mission Road. He called The Times but was too terrified to leave a message. Clockwise from top left: reporters Harriet Ryan, Adam Elmahrek, Sarah Parvini and Matt Hamilton. Bad City alleges that, at one point during the lengthy editing process, Pringle told the papers lawyer that, if the story was buried for months like the draft that had been killed, hed file a complaint with the newspapers human resources department. Right Now. USC President C.L. Carmen A. Puliafito is an opthamologist and is the former Dean of the University of Southern California Medical School. It seemed to Yoders family that things were finally going well. For 2 years, the detectives and a child-abuse prosecutor circled Puliafito and the babys mother, a hairdresser and former nude model. Jackie Lacey, who was in office at the time, said in a recent interview that she was unaware of the settlement agreement and the wiping of the images and other material. I dont know what her current status is, he answered. According to Warren, the photos that show Puliafito and Yoder in the Las Vegas hotel were taken in 2015. He has insisted they were never romantic partners. Until now. Dr. Puliafito resigned as dean last year not long after the woman, Sarah Warren, overdosed while the pair were at a Pasadena hotel. He gives my daughter money, and he pays for her rent, and he pays for all that stuff.. He also was scheduled to have knee-replacement surgery. Prosecutors elsewhere have gone after parents in the deaths of babies that were blamed on drugs. The Chronicle of Higher Education, which first reported the University payments, stated that USC paid Puliafito $850,000 in severance along with $624,000 in base . He negotiated a $7.6-million severance package and separately received a $3-million loan to buy a home in Manhattan Beach. The Puliafito story, which The Los Angeles Times published in July 2017, eventually led the reporters to discover more male employees who either crossed ethical lines or committed crimes that the . Puliafito spent a month in rehab after being ousted from USC but remained deeply involved with Yoder, according to medical board filings and her relatives. Puliafito had three Ivy League diplomas. For Dr. Carmen Puliafito and a group of younger . LOS ANGELES (CBSLA) - An investigation has found that for more than a year while he was dean of USC's medical school, Dr. Carmen Puliafito abused drugs on days he worked as an eye doctor in . She and USC did not answer several written questions from The Times, including whether the university retained copies of the photos and videos or provided them to local, state or federal authorities. Then-USC Keck School of Medicine Dean Dr. Carmen A. Puliafito arrives at the Second-Annual Rebels With A Cause Gala at Paramount Studios on March 20, 2014, in The Judges overseeing this case are MACKENZIE, ALISON and HYMOWITZ, LAURA. She said Puliafito used drugs with her and sometimes brought her and other members of their circle to the USC campus after-hours to party. Then he met Times photographer Ricardo DeAratanha at a neighbors house. These events happened years before President Folt arrived at USC; it would be inappropriate for her to comment, a spokeswoman for Folt said in an email. Max Nikias, who was in office at the time and Amirs boss, knew nothing about the destruction of the images and other material, his attorney said in an email to The Times. In 2017, the Los Angeles Times revealed that Puliafito had engaged in parties with young recreational drug users and prostitutes, including at the Keck School's offices, and that Puliafito had smoked methamphetamine at these events. After Puliafito left the witness chair, Smith revealed the existence of the jail recordings that proved he was in close contact with Voigt and Franko and knew the female addicts. The stipulation for a settlement between USC and the Warrens was reached a few weeks after the district attorneys office issued an internal document assessing whether felony charges should be filed against Puliafito, including for allegedly providing drugs to Warrens younger brother, Charles, when he was a minor. When detectives went to interview Yoder again, they found Puliafitos red BMW parked outside her apartment. Video of Dr. Carmen Puliafito, then-dean of the Keck School of Medicine of USC, in September 2015. According to the book, he nodded toward Maharajs and Duvoisins offices and asked, What makes you think theyll run it?. He was headed to Creative Care, one of many luxury . The Times similarly could not determine whether the medical board had collected all the emails, text messages and other material cited in the agreement. In a recent interview, Duvoisin said he does not remember wanting to strip the first version of the story Pringle handed in of the investigation label. The methamphetamine level 50 nanograms per milliliter was not super high, said UC San Francisco-Fresno medical toxicologist Dr. Patil Armenian, a drug researcher and emergency room doctor who reviewed the coroners report for The Times. Carmen Puliafito's case stands out as an extreme example of a derailed administrative career, but it highlights a more common truism that downfalls in higher education are often preceded by . Deputy Dist. He gave a note on Times letterhead to Nikias wife. They said that although they did not see evidence of foul play in reviewing the babys autopsy, they also did not see conclusive evidence of an accident and disagreed with the decision to classify the death that way. The scene they encountered Oct. 5, 2017, had the hallmarks of one of those cases: a tragedy, but not a felony. Manly said he would not have allowed his clients in the Tyndall case to enter into an agreement that resulted in them giving up material like the photos and videos in the Puliafito matter in part because the same material could be useful in a future lawsuit. Posted Tue, Aug 21, 2018 at 5:22 pm PT. They obtained about a hundred recordings, including more than a dozen to Puliafitos phone in the period around the babys death, according to Davis and a transcript of a medical board hearing. 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Dr. Rohit Varma, Puliafito's successor, resigned after less than a year in the position following a report that he sexually . Few knew, though, that he led a double life. Dr. Carmen A. Puliafito boosted the medical school's ranking as its dean and raised hundreds of millions of dollars, becoming one of the highest-profile figures at a university packed with star . Mark Burnley wrote in the document, known as a charge evaluation worksheet, that the current state of the case does not establish sufficient evidence to prove the charges beyond a reasonable doubt.. The marks are evidence of blood pooling after death, they said, and suggest Boaz could have died on his stomach and was flipped over sometime later. Puliafito didnt call 911. Report: Dr. Carmen A. Puliafito used methamphetamine and consorted with a prostitute who overdosed during one of their trysts. The team found her parents. Still, he said, I feel we did our part.. Nothing., Maharaj denied the allegations and said the story was sent back for more reporting., I specifically said at the meeting that I was not killing the story and that Pringle needed to do more reporting and not rely so much on a heavily redacted police report, he said. This case was filed in Los Angeles County Superior Courts, Stanley Mosk Courthouse located in Los Angeles, California. UC Hastings law professor Richard Zitrin had helped draft legislation limiting the use of gag orders and other types of secrecy in legal settlements. The reporting team handed in the next draft of the story at the end of March 2017. Carmen Puliafito, who was dean of the Keck School of Medicine of USC during the relationship, was also a party to the agreement, which paid Sarah Warren, her brother and their parents a combined $1.5 million to head off a lawsuit by the family against him and USC, The Times has learned. The assessment was based on the medical board investigation. She said she immediately called Ariel Franko, the childs father. The floor was scattered with drug paraphernalia. Carmen Anthony Puliafito (born 1951)[1] was an American ophthalmologist and academic administrator. Aug 31, 2017 at 8:45 pm. Youre basically taking the evidence away from the victims, Jackson said. Its unclear what, if anything, she said about Puliafito. Her lawyer did not respond to a phone call or an email but told the Los Angeles Times that Flynn "has not committed any crime . Another resource for detectives was a confidential report about Puliafitos misconduct prepared for USCs trustees by former U.S. Atty. They found a map to that world in the County Jails pay phones. A spokesman for Gascn did not respond to a request for comment. The case status is Disposed - Dismissed. For Dr. Carmen Puliafito and a group of younger people he befriended, life was a photo-op.. Partying in Las Vegas or shopping at Target, pumping gas or playing cards, the dean of USC's medical . There could be other victims out there.. In one of the few studies, a review of eight newborns who died with the drug in their systems, the ones clearly due to meth were a little bit higher level than that of Boaz, Armenian said. As he left the newsroom for the last time before the operation, he stopped by Jack Leonards desk. We understand he is doing his job, but we also expect a degree of respect and professionalism between our organizations., Four editors worked on the story. Atty. You dont base a diagnosis of asphyxia solely on the report of the mother when she was high at the time she placed the baby to sleep, Bertone said. Duvoisin, according to Bad City, told the team it could not report that Puliafito regularly used drugs. [14][15][16][17], The Los Angeles Times reported in July 2017 that while Puliafito served as dean and USC professor, he "kept company with a circle of criminals and drug users who said he used methamphetamine and other drugs with them. She declined to discuss the images or the other evidence. Dr Carmen . [3] He completed a residency in ophthalmology and a fellowship in vitreoretinal surgery at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary. Yoder said she woke just before 7:30 a.m. to find the boy unresponsive, the report states. The sources said the negotiations by lawyers for the Warrens, USC and Puliafito also took place around the time law enforcement was looking into Puliafitos drug use and whether he provided drugs to others. The Times story on the management changes said the two men were fired in a dramatic shake-up. The company also terminated a deputy managing editor; an assistant managing editor; reporter Jill Leovy, who is Duvoisins wife; and Maharajs executive assistant. Confidential payouts to settle legal disputes are common, but one provision of the Warren pact was not, according to legal experts: To receive the money, family members had to turn over to USC all of their videos and photographs showing Puliafito using illegal drugs to allow the university to destroy them, two sources with knowledge of the agreement told The Times. Though Puliafito had never been charged with a crime, the addicts and dealers he partied with were arrested with some frequency, court records show. Mike Davis, one of the investigators in the newborn case, told The Times last month that he and his colleagues knew nothing about the arrangement to wipe the images from the Warrens devices. What they found was shocking, infuriating and devastatingly sad, but in the end, only one thing mattered: Was it enough for criminal charges? And her brother, for whom Puliafito also allegedly provided drugs when he was underage. So many staffers wanted to talk to HR about the two men that interviews with them had to be scheduled on weekends and evenings, according to Bad City.. Instead, it was a male caller who dialed 911 at 7:40 a.m. to report a baby who wasnt breathing. Bad City is part expos, part primer on investigative journalism, part saga about the abuse of power. Szymanski, who now works at Childrens Hospital Los Angeles, declined to discuss her work. Sex Scandals and the Paper That Tried to Cover Them Up", "Carmen Puliafito named new dean of the Keck School of Medicine", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Carmen_Puliafito&oldid=1123775258, This page was last edited on 25 November 2022, at 16:36. At the end of June, Pringle wrote to the companys president of publishing and its chief legal counsel: This is to report actions by Davan Maharaj and Marc Duvoisin that I believe have harmed, and could further harm, The Times and the corporation. Former USC medical school Dean Carmen Puliafito, left, with Dora Yoder, her boyfriend and Sarah Warren in a Las Vegas hotel with drug paraphernalia scattered on a table. But you have used with her, correct? Smith continued. There was no immediate indication of abuse or neglect. Faculty and staff at the University of Southern California complained about Dr. Carmen Puliafito's worrisome behavior for years leading up to his public ousting amid accusations of illicit drug use and solicitation while dean of the Keck School of Medicine, according to an ongoing Los Angeles Times investigation.. Current and former university employees, as well as documented letters of . I dont know. He initially said he had no firsthand knowledge of Yoders drug use but later acknowledged her previous heroin addiction. The sources said celebrity attorney Mark Geragos and his firm negotiated the deal for the Warren family. In 2017, the Los Angeles Times revealed that Puliafito had engaged in parties with young recreational drug users and prostitutes, including at the Keck School's offices, and that Puliafito had smoked methamphetamine at . There are several actions that could trigger this block including submitting a certain word or phrase, a SQL command or malformed data. In USCs lecture halls, labs and executive offices, Dr. Carmen A. Puliafito was a towering figure. But now, everyone is curious to know more about the well-known surgeon, Dr. Carmen Puliafito and his wife. Former USC medical school Dean Carmen Puliafito, left, with Dora Yoder, her boyfriend and Sarah Warren in a Las Vegas hotel with drug paraphernalia scattered on a table. PULIAFITO - Dominic F. 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