Feds Accuse Drobot of Dissipating Assets, Seek to Breach Plea Agreement

Federal prosecutors say Michael D. Drobot failed to disclose that he took a $1 million cash advance against the value of assets he was supposed to sell as part of his criminal forfeiture, according to a petition filed Tuesday seeking a declaration that the former owner of Pacific Hospital of Long Beach has breached his plea agreement. Drobot is serving a 63-month sentence in a Bureau of Prisons facility in Taft, California, for masterminding the scheme to pay referral fees to providers who sent work comp patients to have spinal surgeries performed at Pacific Hospital. Without the ple...