him while he was lounging in the cafes and casinos of europe. almost all of them accused him of the same things, misdiagnosing real problems and performing unnecessary surgeries. mark weinberger ran a surgery mill. he saw up to 100 patients or more a day. he did 100 or 150 surgeries a month. and he made a lot of money. how do you see 100 patients in a day? you give every patient the same diagnosis and you give every patient the same prescription surgery. 18 months after he had vanished, a federal grand jury indicted weinberger in absentia on 22 counts of health care fraud. by now, the state of indiana had revoked his license. the fbi had issued a warrant for his arrest. the clinic was sold. weinberger s ex-wife michelle said it was clear to her little effort was being made to actually find him. the fbi has a huge list of people they re looking for. there s terrorists on the list. here is a white collar criminal who just is hiding out in europe, and they made it clear to me
chicago s botanic garden held solely for the purpose of allowing michelle s father, who was dying of cancer, to walk her down the aisle. next, there was a lavish blessing ceremony in a 12th century villa on italy s coast. mark flew in a dozen gifts from the states. then mark topped it all off by renting chicago s field museum and inviting 110 guests for another formal reception there. those were the memories that kept running through michelle s mind as she and her mother waited for mark to return. but when the sun set that night and mark had not returned, as the captain had promised, michelle knew something was horribly wrong. but what? there were no reports of an accident involving mark, no signs of foul play, no ransom notes. only questions. was there a note of any kind? nothing. no message, nothing. i went through the boat like a crazy person just tearing everything up looking for something.
cares deeply for the man she knew as mark stern and the feeling is evidently mutual. i receive a letter from a collection. what did it say? i love you. don t forget me or don t forget the mountain. so he search to be real with me. he was i think real with me. it s noteworthy that shortly after weinberger s capture in italy, his italian girlfriend began corresponding with his american ex via facebook. i was picturing a thin blonde girl who was maybe about 20, 25. i was 25 when i met him. that s what i had picture. monica is about the opposite of you. yes. we shared one thing in common. he lied to her and he lied to me. and i did everything i could to get him turned in, and she actually is the person that turned him in. so we had a lot in common. it took a few years, but michelle kramer has moved on in her life. she finished her doctorate in psychology and is currently doing a fellowship at a prestigious university hospital
and the only two things i found was 1,000 euros and my passport in a drawer. after 24 hours of watching a hysterical michelle suffer, the yacht s captain gave her the number for a greek cell phone that mark had been secretly using ever since they had been on the yacht. michelle had no idea what would happen when she dialed that number, but she was desperate to hear her husband s voice. he answered rather happily, like 5:00 a.m., he said, hello? i was in shock. i said, hello? then he fumbled with the phone and he hung up. did he know it was you on the phone? oh, yeah. how did that feel? i was devastated. i felt like somebody punched me in the stomach. i couldn t understand why he would do that. as it turned out, michelle s husband had, as promised, given her a huge surprise, all right. he deserted her.
will you please tell us your name and spell your last name for the court reporter. michelle kramer. allen put weinberger s ex-wife michelle on the big screen to talk about their high life. we had a yacht that was in the mediterranean half the year and in the balm bahamas the other half of the year. in prerecorded testimony, michelle told the court that the phyllis barnes case weighed heavily on her husband s mind the week before he abandoned her. he was constantly fretting and worrying about the lawsuit, becoming increasingly paranoid and anxious. shawn barnes, phyllis daughter, also told the court of the devastating effect her mother s death had on her life. her father had died of brain cancer 18 months earlier. i basically had to grow up overnight. suddenly had bills to pay, was in danger of losing my house and i had to go to school. i was going to work part time. i didn t have the opportunity to go out and be a college student or be a teenager because i had all of t