Procedural Hang-Up Prompts 'Not Guilty' Plea from Drobot

SANTA ANA – A Long Beach hospital owner who admitted to bilking California workers' compensation insurers out of hundreds of millions of dollars for spinal surgeries and that could bring down a state senator on bribery charges, entered a not-guilty plea to the charges against him during an arraignment hearing Monday.This incongruous plea was due to a procedural hang-up.Michael D. Drobot, 69, has agreed to plead guilty to the two charges detailed in court documents that would send him to prison for as long as 10 years. But a magistrate judge instructed Drobot to enter a "not guilty" p...