Drobot Drops Appeal, Joins With Prosecutors in Fighting Restitution for Patients

Michael D. Drobot dropped an appeal of an order finding that he breached the terms of his plea agreement last year when he pocketed $1 million he was ordered to forfeit as part of his sentence for orchestrating a kickback scheme targeting California’s workers’ compensation system. Meanwhile, a new challenge before the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has Drobot, his son and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for Central California teaming up in an attempt to kill an appeal of a judge’s ruling that it would simply be too complicated to figure out whether a handful of patie...