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Neurosurgeon Pleads Guilty to Taking $3.3 Million in Kickbacks from Hospital

Neurosurgeon Lokesh Tantuwaya has pleaded guilty to accepting about $3.3 million in bribes to perform spinal surgeries at now-defunct Pacific Hospital of Long Beach, whose owner Michael Drobot has been convicted of a massive workers’ compensation scam.

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