01/21/2020
ordered to forfeit earlier. He pleaded guilty in August to a single charge of misprision of felony meaning he had knowledge of the actual commission of a felony that he failed to report.
Bernadett purchased Pacific Hospital for 20 million from Michael D. Drobot in May 2005 under terms that allowed
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09/10/2014
Attorneys for State Compensation Insurance Fund beset by what they characterize as efforts to avoid discovery in the face of a looming November deadline asked the U.S. District Court for Central California on Tuesday to compel Michael R. Drobot to respond to 32 requests for information about his
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04/15/2015
Michael D. Drobot turned the tables on 30 people and three law firms that dropped civil complaints alleging he was involved in a conspiracy to use counterfeit hardware in spinal fusions by filing his own complaint for malicious prosecution.
Now he's on the offensive.
Drobot filed a complaint
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12/23/2015
filed by providers to dismiss a suit by State Fund that alleges they accepted kickbacks from Drobot in exchange for referring patients to Pacific Hospital of Long Beach. At the same time Guilford denied a motion by many of the same providers asking the court to toss a third-party complaint Drobot filed
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01/15/2018
Michael D. Drobot will serve five years three months in prison for overseeing a 500 million workers compensation fraud scheme for 15 years under a sentence handed down by U.S. District Judge Josephine L. Staton on Friday.
The judge said Drobot 73 of Corona Del Mar introduced greed into
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04/03/2014
The United States government's case against Michael Drobot is heading for a different courtroom than previously ordered.
Drobot was arraigned Monday on charges that he had bilked California workers' compensation insurers out of hundreds of millions of dollars for spinal surgeries and bribed a
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04/25/2014
SANTA ANA Calif. Former Pacific Hospital of Long Beach owner Michael D. Drobot pleaded guilty to two felony charges related to his admitted role in a scheme to bilk California's workers' compensation insurance carriers out of millions of dollars by having them overpay for spinal surgeries and
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02/06/2017
The U.S. District Court for Central California postponed until September the date Michael D. Drobot is scheduled to be sentenced for federal kickback and conspiracy charges.
Michael D. Drobot
Meanwhile federal prosecutors are moving to place liens worth 5 million on two properties he
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05/24/2018
Michael R. Drobot started serving his 41-month prison sentence while his father was given an extra two months of freedom before hell have to start serving his 63-month sentence.
The younger Drobot turned himself in on Monday to start serving the sentence that U.S. District Judge Josephine
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08/17/2018
The U.S. Attorneys Office said it wouldnt object if a judge cancels a scheduled hearing to decide whether Michael R. Drobot should be held in contempt now that hes paid part of a forfeiture order that was due in March.
But prosecutors said they still want the younger Drobot to identify
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