Here's some extra information on Donald Etra, who we understand to be taking over the defense of Dr. Hoshang Pormir as the doctor's criminal attorney in the state of California's elder abuse case against the Kern Valley Healthcare District employees.
The other two defendants in the case are the short term director of nursing for the KVHD nursing center, Gwen Hughes, being represented by Bakersfield criminal attorney, Bruce Blythe, and the former CEO, Pamela Ott, who resigned shortly after the state put the hospital nursing facility in immediate jeopardy, heading toward closure in May of 2007. She is being represented by another local attorney, Jim Faulkner.
Etra could make this a different kind of case
With a new attorney of some merit and caliber taking over for a client on this case, a doctor in fact, changes the face of the whole case. Look for part two of the political implications of the presence of Donald Etra, coming soon.
The rapper's gentle rap
Rapper, Snoopdog, according to this Sept. 2009, article in the Orange County Register, was arrested with a gun and some marijuana.
His attorney, Donald Etra, the new player in the Kern Valley Healthcare District elder abuse case as of Jan. 5, told reporters Snoopdog had a prescription for the marijuana.
But the attorney went on to defend "Snoopdog" says the author of the article, referring to the charges as "bogus."
Now, I've made that very same accusation about the investigation and ultimate charges in the Kern Valley Healthcare district case. The word bogus is hanging at the front door of this blog.
http://www.ocregister.com/news/probation-191164-broadus-etra.html
Etra has been linked with other celebrity cases such as with Chris Brown and Rihanna, which makes me wonder about Etra's current interests in law.
His background, which we will go into in part two of the other article, is rather eclectic considering his foray into the celebrity world.
Jerry Brown and Howard Stern
The politics that have taken place so far in our particular case have been local power mongers, the bottom feeders.
But with our Attorney General on ABC World news last week, and now the presence of Etra, things are rather confusing now for most of us locally, who would just like to keep our hospital, but keep it safe.
Howard Stern's attorney gave our California Attorney General "guff" about pouring money into the Anna Nicole Smith investigation and using it as a vehicle for his campaign for governor in the article below (click on link).
(I believe you will find similar remarks on this blog, as I thought it was horrific for the AG to take the time to fly down for a photo op on this Anna Nicole Smith business. It was in the faces of the people who have been hurt repeatedly here in the KRV. Family members, patients, employees, the list goes on. )
I must say I repeated a very similar sentiment in that our AG, Mr. Brown, passed us up, as he flew right over us to LA for the public relations event of the year with Anna Nicole Smith and then Michael Jackson overdosing on some strange drug.
But this little valley, hurt and harmed in so many ways, we could use justice. We don't want your press conferences and ABC World News stories regarding the continual retelling of the most graphic scene in our whole nightmare.
We want you to acknowledge what happened in 2006 and 07, which revolved around a systems failure in the nursing facility run by an administrator with improper credentials.
We need to be helped. We still have participants to the crimes at the hospital, working, getting a paycheck, retirement, and yet nothing is done.
We could use some help. But it doesn't seem to be something that has been given out much here.
How about a press conference Mr. Brown? (call me) And welcome aboard Mr. Etra. There are many articles to read about you...I'll add more links soon.
Persistance and Tenacity, requires a new chapter, a new beginning....
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