02/14/2019
Financial transactions that a federal judge said violated the terms of Michael D. Drobots plea agreement are about to cost the former hospital executive the very thing he says he was trying to save his waterfront home in Southern California.
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U.S. District Judge
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04/04/2014
A federal judge denied a request by attorneys for Michael R. Drobot to stay proceedings in the civil racketeering complaint filed by the California State Compensation Insurance Fund and at the same time granted the carriers request for more time to amend its complaint to name additional defendants
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07/13/2015
State Compensation Insurance Fund can amend its fraud complaint to name as defendants 15 providers already brought into the case through a third-party complaint filed by Michael D. Drobot but not 14 additional people it alleges are similarly situated a Southern California judge ruled last week
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07/31/2015
A Southern California judge threw out a 40 million malicious prosecution complaint Michael D. Drobot filed against three law firms and more than 30 people who sued him for his alleged role in a spinal hardware counterfeiting scheme calling it a Strategic Lawsuit Against Public Participation
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10/04/2016
State Compensation Insurance Fund on Monday informed the U.S. District Court for Central California that it has reached a settlement with Michael D. Drobot and his son Michael R. Drobot.
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Terms of the settlements were not disclosed in court filings and are not likely to
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01/02/2019
Federal prosecutors say Michael D. Drobot doesnt seem to understand that his champagne wishes and caviar dreams dont take precedence over his obligation to relinquish 10 million in ill-gotten gains from the kickback scheme he orchestrated at Pacific Hospital of Long Beach.
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02/24/2014
By Greg Jones Western Bureau Chief
Federal prosecutors on Friday announced that Michael D. Drobot faces up to 10 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to paying kickbacks in a 500 million fraud scheme relating to spinal fusions and admitted to bribing state Sen. Ron Calderon to delay
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01/16/2018
Michael D. Drobot will serve more than five years in federal prison and pay 500000 in criminal fines for devising a scheme to pay at least 40 million in kickbacks to dozens of providers as part of a plot that federal prosecutors say generated 500 million in fraudulent bills.
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05/28/2014
By Sherri Okamoto
Legal Reporter
Counsel for Michael R. Drobot Jr. on Friday made good on their threat to seek a judicial order to disqualify the law firm of Irell & Manella and the California State Compensation Insurance Fund's in-house attorneys from proceeding with the civil fraud
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07/29/2015
Michael D. Drobot
A federal judge on Tuesday postponed until next summer the sentencing hearing for Michael D. Drobot who pleaded guilty last year to conspiring to defraud a federal health care program and admitted to bribing a California state senator.
U.S. District Judge Josephine L
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