suddenly, shipments of camping gear began arriving at the weinberger clinic. one of his treatment rooms in one wing of the building was full of camping equipment. i really didn t see him as being much of a camper. he s more four seasons hotel type. right. but he was almost frantically packing it up. what kinds of equipment did he have? there were several backpacks. there were just bags that were stuffed with things that you couldn t see. and then there were the strange men with thick european accents that some employees reported seeing coming into the offices with briefcases to meet privately with weinberger. michelle later learned those men were diamond dealers from new york. i think he bought about maybe $500,000 worth of diamonds before he left. 500,000. uh-huh. and where did the diamonds go? with him, i suppose. i didn t find out anything about diamonds until after he had left. diamonds, light, untraceable.
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. 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 that he wasn t their number one priority.
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.
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. for reasons she did not yet understand, michelle would have to return home alone. she knew her life as she had been living it was over.
$500,000 worth of diamonds before he left. where did the diamonds go? with him i suppose. and who was this wealthy man of mystery, now living in the italian alps? i don t think they have any idea what s going to happen. it had all the makings of a perfect fantasy, the perfect husband away with his perfect wife for her 30th birthday in the picture-perfect greek islands. the weather was perfect, the accommodations aboard their private fully-staffed 80-foot yacht perfect. it was late september 2004, and with her mother and a few close girlfriends along to help the couple celebrate, michelle weinberger had every reason to believe she was living a perfectly charmed life with the man of her dreams. then, as if suddenly doused with