Etra and Ginsburg: new attorney's in the Kern Valley Healthcare District case

(UPDATE: Sept. 2010:Donald Etra was a former attorney working with Ralph Nader. He moved on lately to high profile Hollywood cases. His client is Dr. Hoshang Pormir, the medical Director of the nursing center and ER. Dr. Pormir is charged with elder abuse. He has also hired William Howard Ginsburg who was the attorney for "Monica Lewinsky." The two other defendants in the KVHD elder abuse case, Pamela Ott and Gwen Hughes, have their own attorneys but they also maybe putting their heads together as I attended a hearing (on our YouTube site) and watched them shove Ott in the backseat of a car and the attorneys, not Dr. Pormir, and Ott all left together. Hughes is seen in the video leaving in her wheelchair. What is going on now? The defendants will be back in court to answer to the charges which could lead to a trial or they still have the opportunity to make a deal. If Monty Hall comes as their lawyer next, we will know what has happened...)

Who are they and what are they doing here?

I apologize, but I have not been able to verify much so far regarding the new attorney's in the KVHD criminal case surrounding the use or some will say, misuse, of psychotropic medications in the skilled nursing facility for six months during 2006.

Two new names, possibly big names in the world of defense attorneys, Donald Etra and William Ginsburg, who have been recently attached to the case, but we have no "verification" of how they got here and what their particular roles are.

What I have learned so far is that Etra is the attorney for Dr. Hoshang Pormir, a defendant in the case. Etra is thought to be taking the place of the previous criminal defense attorney.

Ginsburg, is the twist. His presence or actually I have not confirmed to my satisfaction what Mr. Ginsburg is doing in the case. And I have again not confirmed that he is the Ginsburg who was involved in the Monica Lewinsky drama, case, or whatever you want to call it.

I was told he was involved in another case for Dr. Pormir, one with the state medical board.

Again, I will get back today with that information if at all possible.

I thought I would ask

I've sought the assistance of a few media outlets and the Bakersfield Californian newspaper in helping to find out what sort of turn this case is taking and who are new players on the field.

Though, there are the media outlets who have been using our story for their own purposes, not remembering that this case took place in 2006, and forgetting there is another side: a new administration and new CEO. I would suspect the new administrators wouldn't mind giving their side of the story after the media has stuffed itself at the buffet we seemed to have arranged for them.

At the end of the year our story made a local outlet's year end shocking stories, and I kind of shook my head in disappointment when the article read something like: "they were giving out psychotropics like candy."

Yeah, thanks, that helps. (I know all these people who have reported on this were right there, bedside, or they were too lazy to go past a politically motivated report from our attorney generals office. Hey, other media outlets don't forget that Pam Ott was once a "witness" and now a defendant. And the pharmacist was once a defendant and now a witness. And the witness for the state scrutinizes the hospital medical records. The former CEO of the hospital shreds the paperwork leaving only what she thinks anyone should see. Yeah, rely on that and you'll go far.)

The media outlets were giving out "shockformation" like candy to their readers who unsuspectingly thought they were being treated with respect...