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I'm Scott Weinberger, journalist and former Deputy Sheriff. In my new podcast series, Coldblooded, I'm embedded in the cold case investigation into the death of firefighter Billy Halper. Experience this investigation in a truly unique way. Untangling secrets that may reveal the answers to not only one case, but almost a dozen. Listen to Coldblooded: The Apollo Jim murders on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. If you love sports and true crime, then there's a new podcast from executive producer Dan Patrick, and hosted by me, Jay Harris, that you won't want to miss. Playing Dirty: Sports Scandles. Each week, I'm squeeze in the juiciest details from some of the biggest sports scandals ever. I'm talking Marcus Dixon, Olympic Gymnastics, Cain Velasquez, salacious Super Bowl-level scandals. Join me on the dark side of sports by listening to Playing Dirty: Sports Scandles. On the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Iheart Podcast update this week on your free iHeartRadio app. Fodor's Guide to Espionage, a '60s-era spy story of the world's first and greatest travel writer, Eugene Fodor, as he jet-sets around the globe. Tongue Unbroken Season 2. This podcast explores complex concepts of identity, resilience, erasure, and genocide.

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Table for Two Season 2. Think of the show as a deconstructed Oscar party in podcast form. Each episode takes place over the romance of a meal and feels like you're seated next to a different guest at that dinner. Hear these podcasts and more on your free iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcast. I used to have so many men. How this beguiling woman in her 50s-She looked like a million bucks. Scams a bunch of famous athletes out of untold fortunes. Nearly $10 million was all gone. It's just unbelievable. Hide your money in your old Richmond because she is on the proud. Listen to Queen of the Con Season 5, The Athlete Whisperer on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. It's been a while since you've seen a good old fashioned doing drugs video, so we thought we'd make one for you. That video was recorded at Sarah Warren's apartment. It shows Sarah, a 21-year-old, doing meth and other drugs with a much older man. Considering what he's into, you might be tries to learn what this man does for a living. He's the dean of the medical school at USC.

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I went to the hospital. Will you crush it out? For months, I've been fighting to get into the paper, my story about the dean of the USC Medical School, Carmen Polyafido. Then I get my hands on some of the videos he and Sarah Warren had been making. They come from a source I didn't expect. My name is Paul Pringle. I'm an investigative reporter for the LA Times, and this is Fallen Angels. Episode 5, The Warren Family. I first went to see the Warrants in March of 2017. Matt Hamilton, another Times reporter, came with me to their house in Orange County. Matt's part of the secret reporting team I'd put together with my editor. But when we get to their place in Huntington Beach, the only person home is Sarah's teenage brother, Charles. We ask about Pulvia Fido and his sister, and the kid pulls up his shirt sleeve to show us a tattoo. It says no snitches. This is like the punk younger brother who's trying to act tough. Reporter Matt Hamilton. It's another door closed on us. I think that is when Paul made the decision. He drove down to Paul Warren's office in Long Beach and made the introduction, which was risky because if you're door-knocking someone, to go to their workplace is extremely low chances of success.

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I don't like the idea of showing up at Paul Warren's work, but Sarah is in rehab and Charles isn't talking. So at this point, Paul is all we got. But he works at a logistics company in downtown Long Beach. There's a garden in the lobby. I don't tell him who I am. I just ask him if he can direct me to Paul's office. He won't, but he phones Paul to say I'm there. A couple of minutes later, Sarah Warren's father appears. He's in his 50s, medium build, brown hair. I tell him I'm a reporter for the LA Times, and immediately, his face falls like he knew this day would come. He leads me to a private area where we can talk. I ask him if I'll answer a few questions, confidentially. With some reluctance, he agrees. Paul tells me that he and his wife have been trying to get Poliofido out of Sarah's life for two years. He says Carmen thinks Sarah's his girlfriend, and the warrants are desperate for her rehab to work. That's all he'll say for now. I give him my card and ask if we can speak again. He says he'll think about it.

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Even if we can't get Sarah or her parents, the reporting team has enough for a story. So it's time to poke USA President Max Nakeas again. Give him one last chance to comment. We decide to send Matt Hamilton and Sarah Parveni to follow up in person. Paul had basically tasked us with one of the most difficult parts, which is confronting an administrator at USA who doesn't want to be confronted. Matt and I are both USC alums, both products of the Journalism School of USC. It seemed fitting for the two of us to be the people to go back on campus and to sit in that office in hope for an interview with Nikias. We knock on the President's door and go in, and we had not realized that the USA President's office was really a series of offices. It was It was clearly an inner sanctum, and then an outer sanctum, and then an even further outer sanctum. There was a person at the front desk. We told them who we were. The two reporters from the LA Times were working on a story. We'd like to speak with President Nkeias, and we sat there and waited.

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But of course, we were turned away. We were both a little crestfallen that we didn't get to lay eyes on the President. Really, that was the height of Max Nkeias's power because USA was just raking in over a billion a year. The money was arriving so fast and he didn't have time for two to LA Times reporters. I also emailed Nakeas's office for a response, and I attached the 911 recording from the hotel Constance. Remember Remembering what his office said in that letter to Davon, I add a PS. I have never followed you on Instagram, and I have no interest in your travel schedule. I know going to Nakeas could easily mean another complaint from his office, and the top editors at the Times, Davon and Mark, are not going to like it. And on Monday, the reporting team hears from one of our editors, Shelby Grad. We got an email saying to the effect of, Okay, the team's done good work. Carry on with your other assignments and stories. I do remember a sense of Shelby being leaned on to have the team do other things. Matt late, our editor on the story, tells me Davon has apparently found out about the reporting team, and now he's pressuring Shelby to take everyone off the project.

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It seems maybe Nakeas did complain again. I remember calling Paul and other team members after receiving that email, and It was like, Disregard the email. Just keep doing what you're doing. I know it says it in writing, but the real mandate is to keep going. The five of us were able to do significant headway and gel as a team, and it made it almost impossible for it to be disbanded by that point. It was a brilliant tactical move by mid-level editors to put five people of varied abilities, skill, experience, its age onto a team. It's like a broad constituency. It gave it an impossible to kill arrangement. There was a lot of contempt for the leadership of the paper. We found them ridiculous. Harriet Ryan had been through this thing with her investigation into Purdue Pharma, and she isn't about to let this story suffer the same fate. It was about journalism. There was something about the purity of the journalism, Affict the Comfortable and Comfort the afflicted. It was why we were all in this field. It was why we got up every morning and went to this building and made less money than we could have and dealt with the fact that we could be laid off at any minute.

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We all did it for this belief in this thing. Shelby sends another email to the team saying, again, that we need to stand down. We ignore it. So we're not a secret reporting team anymore, just an insubordinate one. I'm Scott Weinberger, journalist and former Deputy Sheriff. In my new podcast series, Cold-Blooded: The Apologian Murders, I'm embedded in the cold case investigation into the death of firefighter Billy Halpern. It's just a shame that they took him from us. Experience this investigation in a truly unique way, knocking on doors, uncovering new evidence, including the DNA of a potential killer. My name is Danny Smith. I'm a Detective, Miriamar Police Department. This is Scott Weinberger. We're actually reopening an old case, and your name came up. Untangling secrets that may reveal the answers to not only one murder, but almost a dozen. I thought they were going to kill me. So I kept my mouth shut and I didn't say anything. All these years, I didn't say. Listen to Cold-blooded: The Apollo Jim murders on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. If you love sports and true crime, then there's a new podcast from executive producer Dan Patrick, and hosted by me, Jay Harris, that you won't want to miss.

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Playing Dirty: Sports Scandles. Each week, I'm squeezing the juiciest details from some of the biggest sports scandals ever. I'm talking Marcus Dixon, Olympic Gymnastics, Cain Velasquez, salacious Super Bowl-level scandals. Join me on the dark side of sports by listening to Playing Dirty sports scandals on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Iheartpodcast update this week on your free iHeartRadio app. Fodor's Guide to Espionage, a '60s-era spy story of the world's first and greatest travel writer, Eugene Fodor, as he jet-sets around the globe. Tong Unbroken Season 2. This podcast explores complex concepts of identity, resilience, erasure, and genocide. Table for Two Season 2. Think of the show as a deconstructed Oscar party in podcast form. Each episode takes place over the romance of a meal and feels like you're seated next to a different guest at that dinner. Hear these podcasts and more on your free iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcast. This is Neil Strauss, host of the Tenderfoot TV True Crime podcast, To Live and Die in LA. I'm here to tell you about the new podcast I've been undercover investigating for the last year and a half.

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It's called To Die For. Here's a clip. All these girls were sent out into the world and they were told, Try to meet If you hate important men, try to attach yourself to important men. The voice you're hearing is a Russian model agent telling me about spies sent out to seduce men with political power. The war in Ukraine is also being fought by all these girls that are all over important cities. For the first time, a military-trained seduction spy reveals how the Russian government turns sex and love into a deadly weapon. If you want to kill your target, It's easy. You just seduce him, take him somewhere, start having sex, and then he's very vulnerable, so you can kill him easily. To Die For is available now. Listen for free on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts. Or wherever you get your podcasts. I give Paul Warren a few days to get in touch, but he doesn't. Then one I get a call from his wife, Maryanne Warren, Sarah's mother. She won't go on the record, at least not yet, but she agrees to talk. I don't tell Maryanne that I've already spoken to her husband, and since she doesn't bring it up, I assume he hasn't told her either.

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I have to maintain Paul's confidentiality, even from his wife. We arrange to meet at the Hilton in Huntington Beach. I first see Maryanne in the hotel lounge. She's tan, blonde, and looks a lot like her daughter. She says her husband doesn't know that she's meeting with me, and neither does Sarah. We find a quiet table at the back, and she starts to tell me what Carmen Polioffido has done to her family. The Warrants first learned about Polioffido when Sarah ran away from home. She had always been impulsive and had run away before, but this time was different. They didn't hear from her for months. So Maryanne was relieved when she got a Facebook message from one of Sarah's friends. He called and said, your daughter is mixed up with these madmen. Now, the Warrants would end up signing a nondisclosure agreement with USC, and we'll get to that. They can't tell their whole story, but Maryanne did go on the record. These excerpts are from a transcript read by an actor. Through Facebook, when Sarah went missing and Carmen had the first apartment for her, I said, Bring her to me. I didn't care who he was.

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To me, he was like a Guardian angel because I hadn't seen my daughter in a couple of months. Sarah came home, but she wasn't the same. She had struggled with her drinking and dabbled with drugs before, but now she was addicted to meth, and she claimed that this 64-year-old doctor was her boyfriend. It was the start of a terrible cycle. She ODed with this guy four or five times. Pasadena Sheriff's had to have a suicide squad at her apartment. Of course, no trace of any police reports. No police reports, just like after the hotel Constance. The warrants got Sara into rehab again and leaned on pull your feet on to help pay for it. But even though he's willing to spend money on her treatment, he's still part of the problem. Sara says that he snuck drugs in. All the candy that he would send her in rehab, and that's why she never got better. She was in three rehab facilities. She was kicked out of one of them because Polya Fido smuggled Xanax bars to her. Reporter Matt Hamilton. The first day of her rehab, she went out to the car and he would give her Xanax, hand her the bag.

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And on the second day, Polya Fido brought her meth by putting in a glass case on the road outside the facility. And so she was kicked out after they found out she was high. At the second rehab, Facilla was discharged but relapsed on the ride home with Poliofido because he gave her meth and alcohol on the ride home. Monarch Shores, I believe, was the third. He would mail her Xanax and Skittles bags, and he called it Skittles' surgery. Now, knowing what Pullier Fetal was capable of, The warms have put Sara into a rehab where he can't get to her. Where she is now, they don't let any men in you know. So it drove him wild. I had to keep him at bay so he wouldn't go there searching for her, saying, Oh, no, this rehab is like a convent. They don't let anyone in Carmen. I hardly get to speak to her myself. They consulted a private investigator who told them not to shut out Poliofido since they don't know what he might do. I have kept in contact with Carmen while Sarah has been in rehab. When we first found out all this was going on, who he was, I was advised that we keep our enemy close to us, my husband and I.

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So we've been in constant contact with Carmen, like every two or three weeks. And Maryanne tells me something else. Sarah is not the only one in her family who's fallen under his spell. Polya Fido also has his hooks into her teenage son, Charles. Polya Fido had given him meth, 25 to 50 bars of Xanax. By the way, bars is just another term for pills. Polya Fido and his sister, they were both smoking meth. This was in her Pasadena apartment. They offered it to him, and he accepted. And he was only 17 years old at the time. He's someone who was going over to his sister's apartment and invited to partake. But Charles has been trying to get free of Polya Fido. He hates how the dean controls Sarah with drugs. Bugs, keeps her away from her friends and family. Maryanne also tells me that Sarah had once called Charles, afraid for her life. Polya Fido had seen her with another man, and it burst into her apartment in a jealous rage. When Charles rushed over, he found his sister screaming because Polya Fido had been using a steam iron on her clothes while she was wearing them.

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He fought with Polya Fido to defend his sister. He beat Polya Fido, hurt his knee. Charles warned Polyafido to stay away from Sarah, and he threatened to kill him. But Polyafido wouldn't leave her alone. At the end of our meeting, Maryanne confirms what we've heard from the drug dealer, Kyle Voight. Maryanne had looked through Sarah's laptop and found hundreds of photos and videos of Polyafido and Sarah doing drugs and having sex. I know that if we can get our hands on this evidence, David and Mark will have to publish the story. So I asked Maryanne if she'll share the files with me. She tells me she'll think about it. Back in the newsroom, I update the team. Every one of them is struck by some different, terrible detail. Adam Elmaric. He was providing drugs to people, Sarah's brother included, who was a minor. And this is a really damning critical detail. Sarah Parveni. Here's a young woman who is struggling not only with substance issues, but also this imbalance of power. She wasn't too far in age for me. It's hard to turn away from something like that. Matt Hamilton. What she was describing was multiple deliberate efforts to, even when she is at a facility, to try to break her addiction.

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He is enabling it. That, to me, was outrageous. This is just someone who's He's simultaneously entrusted with shepherding the education of people of the same age. And it just... He's a doctor. Maryanne Warren is worried that if she hands over the photos and videos of Pulia Fido and her daughter, Sarah, will feel betrayed. And Pulia Fido might come after the family. So I suggest to compromise. The Times can describe the images in the article but not publish them. She's reassured to some extent. She says she'll look for a good example to send me. I wait, I follow up, I wait some more. And finally, I get a text from her with a screenshot from one of the videos. It's an image I'm not likely to forget. It was like a photo of Polioffito with a pipe. You just see him hovering over this pipe, and there was white smoke. I remember thinking, Okay, that's not a medical school deed. It just was so different from this man that you saw on the USA website or images of some charity function. It was just like, Okay, wow. Maryanne sends six more photos, all showing Poliofido smoking meth.

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We have more than enough. It's time to write the story and get it out there. Harriet Ryan tackles the first draft. Carmen Poliofido, the dean of USA's Keck Medical School, arrived at the gala fundraiser at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel a year and a half ago, with the confidence of a man totally in his element. He moved to the crowd of celebrities like pierce Brosnan and Don Henley, and wealthy school donors like Dana and David Dorenzeit, shaking hands and posing for photos and delivering the message that had become a refrain in his eight years in office. Usc was climbing into the ranks of the country's most elite research institutions. In the less refined setting of the Van Nijs Courthouse a few days earlier, a convicted methamphetamine and heroin dealer named Kyle Voight was told to write his contact information court form. The address he scrawled was a sprawling $5 million mansion in one of Pasadena's toniest neighborhoods, Pulia Fido's residence. The next day, Maryanne calls to tell me that she's just heard from Pulia Fido. He's invited her to lunch. I'm Scott Weinberger, journalist and former Deputy Sheriff. In my new podcast series, Cold-Blooded: The Apollo Jim murders, I'm embedded in the cold case investigation into the death of firefighter Billy Halpert.

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It's just a shame that they took him from us. Experience this investigation in a truly unique way. Knocking on doors, uncovering new evidence, including the DNA of a potential killer. My name is Danny Smith. I'm a Detective with Miriamar Police Department. This is Scott Weinberger. We're actually reopening an old case, and your name came up. Untangling secrets that may reveal the answers to not only one murder, but almost a dozen. I thought they were going to kill me, so I kept my mouth shut and I didn't say anything. All these years, I didn't say. Listen to cold-blooded, the Apollo Jim murders on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. If you love sports and true crime, then there's a new podcast from executive producer, Dan Patrick, and hosted by Jay Harris, that you won't want to miss. Playing Dirty: Sports Scandles. Each week, I'm squeezing the juiciest details from some of the biggest sports scandals ever. I'm talking Marcus Dixon, Olympic Gymnastics, Caine Velasquez, Salacious Super bowl level scandals. Join me on the dark side of sports by listening to Playing Dirty: Sports Scandles on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.

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Iheartpodcast update this week on your free iHeartRadio app. Fodor's Guide to Espionage, a '60s-era spy story of the world's first and greatest travel writer, Eugene Fodor, as he jet-sets around the globe. Tongue Unbroken Season 2. This podcast explores complex concepts of identity, resilience, erasure, and genocide. Table for Two Season 2. Think of the show as a deconstructed Oscar party in podcast form. Each episode takes place over the romance of a meal and feels like you're seated next to a different guest at that dinner. Hear these podcasts and more on your free iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcast. This is Neil Strauss, host of the Tenderfoot TV True Crime podcast, To Live and Die in LA. I'm here to tell you about the new podcast I've been undercover investigating for the last year and a half. It's called To Die For. Here's a clip. All these girls were sent out into the world, and they were told, Try to meet important men. Try to attach yourself to important men. The voice you're hearing is a Russian model agent telling me about spies sent out to seduce men with political power. The war in Ukraine is also being fought by all these girls that are all over important cities.

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For the first time, a military-trained seduction spy reveals how the Russian government turns sex and love into a deadly weapon. If you want to kill your target, it's easy. You just seduce him, take him somewhere, start having sex, and then he's very vulnerable, so you can kill him easily. To die for is available now. Listen for free on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Maryanne Warren tells me that Poliofido says he wants to talk to her about Sarah and the LA Times. And though it doesn't make a lot of sense, he's worried Poliofido somehow knows he's been talking to me. But this This lunch with Poliofido is a chance to get him to talk about his relationship with Sarah and what he knows about our investigation. In a perfect world, you would record the whole thing? But in the state of California, you need permission to record a private conversation. So that's out. But a reporter might be able to overhear them, ees drop, and take notes. We wouldn't be able to quote the conversation because Maryanne wants to remain anonymous. But it would be a major help for our reporting and give us the backup we need.

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So we decide someone needs to go undercover. But who would it be? Clearly not me. We decide on Sarah Parveni and Adam Milmaric. Paul had tried to reach Polioffido numerous times by then, and so that would have just been too obvious. And so we figured he's not going to recognize us, and we could pull this off. It felt like this good old fashioned journalism, of following the quote, unquote bad guy and getting the information that you need. We look for a restaurant that's big enough for multiple tables to be available, and a time, 11:30 AM, when a nearby table might be empty. We land on a place called the Blue Gold, a cavernous steak and seafood restaurant in Huntington Beach. I remember driving down to this mall where the restaurant was and meeting up with Adam, meeting up with Paul, having a huddle before walking in. Maryam will go in first. After Polya Fido arrives, Sarah and Adam will try to sit at the next table. They'll look like any California couple. But if Polya Fido senses something's off and confronts them, they'll have to admit their journalist for the LA Times. Those are the rules.

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I'll be waiting in the car as they text me updates. Fifteen minutes go by, then finally, he shows up. We actually waited outside for him to walk in, and then we followed in a couple of minutes later and sat at the table next to them. It was a nice, a bit upscale, a restaurant, a Mediterranean menu. Adam and I ordered Chechchuka, which was funny for us because we're both Middle Eastern. And we just sat there and we listened. He seemed disheveled. This is a superstar medical school dean, and he did not come across that way. He started to hear Maryanne just really peppering him with questions and really trying to nail him down on certain things, like the fact that he was providing Sarah with drugs. I think he paused for a second and he said, I the money for it, but he didn't actually admit to furnishing the drugs themselves. He gave his story of how he believed he was the hero in all of this. He was trying to rescue Sarah. We were texting the team in a group text, updates about what we were hearing, and then also simultaneously taking notes. He was giving her money for drugs at the very least.

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They had a long term arrangement. Picking up on tone, picking up on intention, you get the vibe of this person, of this relationship, of the trying to cover his tracks, try to smooth things over. Even that in and of itself, if we couldn't quote from any of the conversation, it told us so much. Maryanne presses Pull your feet about the incident at the Hotel Constance. She says, When you see someone passed out, you call 911. Pulia Fido responds, I'm glad I did what I did. I didn't try to make a big deal out of it. When Maryanne confronts him about delivering drugs to Sarah in rehab, he doesn't deny it. He even admits that at least two other people have been kicked out of rehab because of his drug deliveries. There was this almost boastful quality to when Pulia Fido was speaking with Maryanne about about the things that he had done when she would try to pull it out of him like, Oh, and do you remember when this happened? And he would just step right into it and almost be proud. Pulia Fido tells Maryanne that the LA Times is after him. Never talk to them, he warns her.

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And then he asks, Are you sure you aren't talking to them? Cool as can be, Maryanne says, Why would I throw my daughter under the bus? The day after her lunch with Pauleafeto, Maryanne calls me. She's decided to show me the rest of the photos and videos on Sarah's laptop and phone, and she's finally told her husband, Paul, that she's been talking to me, only to find out that he's talked to me, too. Late the next day, Sarah Parveni and I head down to Huntington Beach to meet the Warrants, both of them together. It was late when we drove down together, Paul and I in the same car. Maryanne has booked a conference room at the Hyatt for us to meet in, along with a family therapist. We just want to do what's right, she says. The meeting is off the record. On the conference table, there's a laptop and a hard drive. It was like this long table where we basically got these little drives with the information on them. The warrants agree that we can take the laptop, but we can't publish what's on it. Back in the newsroom, Sarah, Adam, and Matt begins scrolling through dozens of videos and photos.

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There's a video date stamped the night before Sarah's overdose of her and Pulia Fido in the room at the Hotel Constance. I remember just having to literally Google, what is a hot rail? What does this mean? It's a method of taking a methamfetamine where you heat it up, and then you inhale it through your nose. It's like one of the most dangerous ways that you can do meth. In another video, Poliofido and Sara shotgun some meth. She calls him Tony. Oh, my God. Tell me, that's all I'm doing. It's so embarrassing. In another, Poliofido tells Sara he's working on getting more ecstasy, and Sara tells him she had been arrested just the night before. I'm on the ex. That guy really did disappear. Yeah, I know. We think he was in jail. Oh, by the way, I went to jail last night. Tell you about that story. Bye. And then there's the ecstasy video. He is in a tux, dressed very nicely, and it's in this vertically shot, like selfie style video. And he sticks his tongue out and there's a tab on there. And he says, See before the ball. Going to do some ecstasy before the ball.

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In the other footage that we had, we could tell that he was doing various drugs, but he's not sitting there talking about doing the drugs. There is something particularly striking about someone of their own admission saying, This is what I'm doing. It essentially wraps it up in a bow for you. Needless to say, we're stunned by what we see. And then two days later, I get another phone call. Sarah Warren is ready to talk. Davon Maharaj and Mark Duvison deny that they did anything wrong in their handling of the USA investigation, and they maintain that any negative betrayal of their actions is false. Next time on Fallen Angels. He was late to seeing a patient because he was getting high. I finally speak to the young woman at the center of the story. I think the police found the drugs. Well, they just found the meth because Carmen, I guess, was able to hide the heroin. Then right before I overdosed, he was trying to have sex with me, and then I think I just passed out. I knew he had to get out of my life. But even with our main witness on the record, we face a battle to get the story out there.

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Just like cutting the whistleblowers is unethical, and I can't stand by it. When I think about the class on Mark's walls, I just picture it just pulsating with the rage and frustration in that room. That's next time on Fallen Angels. Fallen Angels: The 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 Pinkus, and Brent Katz. Isabel Evans is our producer. Brent Katz is co-producer. Producer. Associate producers are Hannah Leibowitz-Lockert and Onpahoe Lockert. Executive producers are me, Paul Pringle, Joe Piccarello, and Adam Pinkus for Best Case Studios. Original music is by James Newbury. This episode was edited by Max Michael Miller with assistance from Nisha Vencat. Additional editing, sound design, and additional music by Dean White. Maryanne Warren's transcript is read by Jennifer Morris. Harriet Ryan, Matt Hamilton, Sara Parveni, and Adam Elmaric are consulting producers. Our iHeart team is Ali Perry and Carl Cadel. Follow and rate Fallen Angels wherever you get your podcast. I'm Scott Weinberger, journalist and former Deputy Sheriff.

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In my new podcast series, Coldblooded, I'm embedded in the cold case investigation into the death of firefighter Billy Halper. Experience this investigation in a truly unique way, untangling secrets that may reveal the answers to not only one case, but almost a dozen. Listen to Coldblooded: The Apollo Jim murders on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. If you love sports and true crime, then there's a new podcast from executive producer Dan Patrick, and hosted by me, Jay Harris, that you won't want to miss. Playing Dirty: Sports Scandles. Each week, I'm He's in the juiciest details from some of the biggest sports scandals ever. I'm talking Marcus Dixon, Olympic Gymnastics, Cain Velasquez, salacious Super Bowl-level scandals. Join me on the dark side of sports by listening to Playing Dirty: Sports Scandles on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. Iheartpodcast update this week on your free iHeartRadio app. Fodor's Guide to Espionage, a '60s-era spy story of the world's first and greatest travel writer, Eugene Fodor, as he jet-sets around the globe. Tong Unbroken Season 2. This podcast explores complex concepts of identity, resilience, erasure, and genocide. Table for Two Season 2.

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Think of the show as a deconstructed Oscar party in podcast form. Each episode takes place over the romance of a meal and feels like you're seated next a different guest at that dinner. Hear these podcasts and more on your free iHeartRadio app or wherever you get your podcast. It's been almost 3,000 years, and Greek mythology has proved that it is not going anywhere. But it can be difficult to find entertaining and engaging retellings of these myths that aren't fictionalized. Lucky for you, I'm here. Let's Talk About Myths Baby is the Greek mythology and ancient history podcast of your dreams. I dive into the convoluted and confusing ancient sources, so you don't have to. Listen to Let's Talk About Myths Baby on the iHeartRadio app, Apple podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.