Michael Drobot

Michael Drobot is a convicted felon who pleaded guilty to orchestrating the largest fraud in California’s history. In 2018, he was sentenced for "overseeing a 15-year-long healthcare fraud scheme" involving over $40 million in illegal kickbacks and $500 million in fraudulent medical bills. The scheme involved bribing physicians to ensure "patients received surgeries at Pacific Hospital, not knowing that [Drobot] bribed their physician to perform their surgery at Pacific Hospital." Between 1978 and 2013, Drobot managed 28 hospitals along the East Coast, including the Mount Sinai Roosevelt in New York (formerly the Roosevelt Medical Center). At the time of his crimes and arrest, he owned Pacific Hospital in Long Beach (now College Medical Center).