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Reasonable Doubt

BARD - FBI Raids LAUSD Chief as AI Contract Scandal Unfolds

Reasonable Doubt

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Business, True Crime, Comedy

4.33.6K Ratings

🗓️ 1 March 2026

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

Los Angeles Magazine investigative reporter Michele McPhee joins Mark Geragos as guest co-host to unpack the shocking FBI raids on LAUSD Superintendent Alberto Carvalho’s office and home. What began as speculation about political retaliation quickly gave way to a deeper investigation into a failed $6.2 million AI chatbot contract, a bankrupt startup, alleged investor fraud, and a web of personal and professional ties now under federal scrutiny.

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0:31.5

This is beyond a reasonable doubt with your hosts Mark Garrigas and Gary Smith.

0:39.7

Very special episode of Reasonable Doubt with a very special guest, but you're not going to

0:47.6

meet her until the other side of this first video.

0:50.8

Our fearless leader, the governor of California, giving a shout of it.

0:57.0

You got that, Gary?

0:59.1

We've seen improved academic achievement in every subject area, at every grade level,

1:04.7

in every student group with greater gains of test scores for black and Latino kids.

1:10.0

That happened, and that's happening in California's

1:13.2

public educational system. And it's a point of pride, it's a point of pride that those gains

1:20.4

are particularly pronounced in Los Angeles, the nation's second largest school district.

1:26.2

I just want to say this to the teachers, the classified

1:28.3

employees, and the parents of LA Unified School Kids, you should be very proud of your

1:33.0

project, what progress you're making, particularly proud of your leader who's here,

1:40.1

the superintendent of public education, Alberto Cavillow, who's here with us today, who has just been doing a remarkable job.

1:47.3

Alberta, I appreciate you coming all the way up from Los Angeles.

1:54.9

And just so you know, just so you know, he's only been here a few years.

2:00.4

But under his stewardship, the district is outpacing statewide progress.

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