Bad City: Peril and Power in the City of Angels

Author:	Pringle, Paul
Binding:	Hardcover
List Price:	$29.99
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Overview

ISBN:	9781250824080
Publisher:	Celadon Books
Language:	English
Page Count:	289
Publication Date:	7/19/2022
Size:	9.65" l x 6.77" w x 1.12"
Series:	N/A

Category	Subject
True Crime	White Collar Crime
Biography & Autobiography	Editors, Journalists, Publishers

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.