04/03/2015
Attorneys for Michael D. Drobot notified the U.S. District Court for Central California that they were dismissing Dr. Thomas Haider and Haider Spine Center Medical Group Inc. as third-party defendants in a civil fraud complaint filed by State Compensation Insurance Fund.
The filing dismissing
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02/26/2014
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Attorneys for Michael R. Drobot revealed the U.S. Justice Department investigation in a motion filed in conjunction with a related civil suit filed by State Compensation Insurance Fund which seeks damages for the same scheme that his father Michael D. Drobot admitted by pleading guilty.
The elder Drobot
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08/07/2017
Former Pacific Hospital of Long Beach owner Michael D. Drobot is challenging an administrative order suspending him from participating in Californias workers compensation system saying lawmakers would have drafted AB 1244 to explicitly say the suspension provisions apply to executives if that
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03/27/2015
Michael D. Drobot still insists State Compensation Insurance Fund has not stated any actionable fraud claims in a civil Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act Complaint but asserts in a third-party court complaint filed Monday that if there was a conspiracy there's plenty of blame to
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08/13/2018
A federal judge ordered Michael R. Drobot to appear in person for a hearing to determine whether he should be held in contempt for allegedly misleading the court into thinking he had already paid part of a personal money judgment when he was sentenced.
Drobot who is the son of convicted
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07/26/2019
Michael D. Drobot faces more time in prison for scheming a federal court out of 1 million than he did for the spinal surgery kickback scheme at Pacific Hospital of Long Beach that prosecutors say defrauded California comp carriers out of nearly 1 billion.
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The U.S
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05/23/2014
By Greg Jones
Western Bureau Chief
A Southern California woman who underwent spinal fusion surgery at Pacific Hospital of Long Beach accuses the hospital its former owner Michael D. Drobot and her surgeon for negligence and medical battery.
Candice Lee Smith alleges in a complaint filed with
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09/13/2018
Michael D. Drobot was unable to persuade a judge to postpone his surrender date and will have to start serving his 63-month prison sentence Friday.
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U.S. District Judge Josephine Staton on Tuesday issued an order denying Drobots ex parte motion to extend his Sept. 14
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12/27/2018
Convicted fraudster Michael D. Drobot told a federal judge that he pocketed a 1 million cash advance from the sale of his assets instead using it to pay a criminal forfeiture order because it was more prudent to ask for forgiveness than ask prosecutors for permission.
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05/12/2014
By Greg Jones
Western Bureau Chief
Michael D. Drobot requested proceedings in a civil fraud case brought by the California State Compensation Insurance Fund be stayed until after he is sentenced in December in a criminal case based on similar charges of inflating fees for medical devices used in
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