A federal judge this morning rejected a plea deal for surgeon Mark Weinberger, a Chicago doctor who was arrested in the Italian Alps in 2009 after spending five years hiding in Europe while he faced federal fraud charges and hundreds of lawsuits from former patients.
Billboards throughout the region — which he had chosen as a site for his practice because of the allergy-causing poor air quality and the number of factory workers with insurance — advertised him as “TheNoseDoctor,“ and the practice boomed.
