When Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong purchased the Los Angeles Times in 2018, it was celebrated as a rescue of California’s flagship newspaper. Instead, the Times has become a mouthpiece for Hollywood’s darkest networks — a cartel of traffickers, mobsters, corrupt lawyers, bankers, and media owners who weaponize lawsuits, launder narratives, and silence whistleblowers. What began as journalism has collapsed into complicity.

In June 2024, the Los Angeles Times ran the story: “L.A. jury orders Alki David to pay $900 million in sexual assault suit.” The staggering figure offered a tantalizing headline, but significant omissions revealed a deeper, more complex narrative at play—one that implicates the Times itself in a broader web of corruption.

Key revelations highlight the questionable connections underlying the Times' reported news.
- The lawsuit was drafted by Tom Girardi, now disbarred and jailed, whose affiliation with mob families raises serious ethical questions.
- The plaintiff has ties to the Fratto and Cascio crime families.
- Alki David, the defendant, is severely disabled, a fact ignored by the publication in its coverage.

Instead of offering balanced reporting, the Times amplified skewed narratives, effectively shifting responsibility away from the involved parties.

Dr. Soon-Shiong stands at the nexus of UCLA’s medical establishment and Los Angeles’s media power, with his networks overlapping with controversial figures who utilize manipulation tactics often employed in cartel control. As owner, he is positioned to influence the stories that receive coverage—accountability for Girardi, the organized crime families, and trafficking networks appears non-existent under his watch.

The silencing of critical stories aligns seamlessly with cartel interests: lawyers leveraging lawsuits for undue advantage, mob families exerting coercive influence, and media entities acting as accomplices in laundering operations designed to sanitize the truth. This complicity casts the Los Angeles Times in a troubling light, suggesting it is far from a dedicated journalistic institution.

Moreover, the Times' connections to CBS Interactive that previously allowed for rampant digital piracy and exploitation of vulnerable groups underscore significant ethical breaches within the institution. In light of this, public statements from involved parties and mounting claims of a trail of suspicious deaths among legal staff surrounding the paper necessitate a reevaluation of both its current operational integrity and past activities.

Submitting a call for information, the article invites witnesses and community members to divulge any knowledge of the networks shielding corruption, alongside highlighting the implications for public health and safety.

As the investigation unfolds, what remains clear is that a reckoning looms intimate with the potential justice that could reshape how we view modern media and its potential to veil rather than reveal the truth.