A nosey guide thumbed him...
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One of America's most wanted fugitives, a Chicago ear, nose and throat specialist who has been on the run since 2004 after allegedly cheating patients and Medicare out of billions of dollars, has been discovered by police living in a tent in the Italian Alps.
Forty-six-year-old Mark Weinberger is now in hospital in Aosta, suffering not only from the cold but from a neck injury sustained when he tried to stab himself with a box-cutter after being arrested. He now faces extradition to the United States where lawyers for insurance companies and angry patients want him prosecuted for fraudulent billing and performing unnecessary operations.
The Caribinieri, tipped off by a mountain guide, found Weinberger's hideout at the base of a glacier on the Italian side of Mont Blanc. He was surviving the sub-zero temperatures on a diet of tinned food and melted snow heated up on a portable stove.
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