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left-of-center2012

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Mon Jul 24, 2017, 09:54 AM Jul 2017

The secret life of USC med school dean (hookers and drugs)

An overdose, a young companion, drug-fueled parties: The secret life of USC med school dean

In USC’s lecture halls, labs and executive offices, Dr. Carmen A. Puliafito was a towering figure. The dean of the Keck School of Medicine was a renowned eye surgeon whose skill in the operating room was matched by a gift for attracting money and talent to the university.

There was another side to the Harvard-educated physician.

During his tenure as dean, Puliafito kept company with a circle of criminals and drug users who said he used methamphetamine and other drugs with them, a Los Angeles Times investigation found.

Puliafito, 66, and these much younger acquaintances captured their exploits in photos and videos. The Times reviewed dozens of the images.

Shot in 2015 and 2016, they show Puliafito and the others partying in hotel rooms, cars, apartments and the dean’s office at USC.

In one video, a tuxedo-clad Puliafito displays an orange pill on his tongue and says into the camera, “Thought I’d take an ecstasy before the ball.” Then he swallows the pill.

In another, Puliafito uses a butane torch to heat a large glass pipe outfitted for methamphetamine use. He inhales and then unleashes a thick plume of white smoke. Seated next to him on a sofa, a young woman smokes heroin from a piece of heated foil.

Read more at:

http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-usc-doctor-20170717-htmlstory.html

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The secret life of USC med school dean (hookers and drugs) (Original Post) left-of-center2012 Jul 2017 OP
OH WELL heaven05 Jul 2017 #1
 

heaven05

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1. OH WELL
Mon Jul 24, 2017, 10:25 AM
Jul 2017

sign of the times of those who feel they are too big or important to fail. Just look at bannon and his boy-potus puppet et al. This country is on the proverbial greased slide.....all the way down to smoldering chaos and madness....and all because the DEPLORABLES felt the need to bring their sheets...with eye holes....out the closet after eight long years of fear under the man and family of true class and distinction, Barack Hussein Obama, Michelle, Sasha and Malia. A TRUE FIRST FAMILY.

Unlike the trash stinking up the halls of 1600 now.

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