USC challenging fundraising reputation of disgraced dean
LOS ANGELES (AP) — The University of Southern California is challenging the fundraising reputation of a once-lauded medical school dean who resigned and faces allegations that he used drugs and hobnobbed with criminals.
Dr. Carmen A. Puliafito said he raised $1 billion for the Keck School of Medicine.
That assertion was challenged Friday in a school letter to "Friends of USC" from Senior Vice President Albert R. Checcio that laid out results of a USC fundraising campaign.
"Let me state the facts," Checcio wrote. "In the past seven years, Dr. Puliafito was responsible for barely one percent of the more than $1.2 billion that USC raised for medicine.