Dr. Mark Weinberger’s new wife is an Illinois native he married in 2019, several years after his release from federal prison, and her name has not been made public in any major news report. The couple settled in the West Palm Beach area of Florida and have two young children together. That quiet post-prison life came apart in November 2025, when Weinberger was indicted on new federal fraud charges in South Carolina; he pleaded guilty to a conspiracy count in February 2026.
What Is Known About Weinberger’s New Wife
Very little identifying information about her is on the public record. A 2021 NBC Dateline investigation was the first to report that Weinberger had remarried and was raising two small children in Florida.1NBC Chicago. Convicted Runaway Doctor Starts New Life After Prison A Chicago Tribune write-up of that episode noted that his wife is originally from Illinois and that the couple married in 2019.2Yahoo Finance. Dateline Gives Former Indiana Sinus Doctor Update Beyond those details, no outlet has published her name, her profession, or how the two met.
She is Weinberger’s fourth wife. Before her, he had been married and divorced twice, and then married Michelle Kramer in 2001 at the Chicago Botanic Garden. Kramer was the wife he abandoned aboard their yacht off Mykonos in 2004 when he fled the country to escape mounting malpractice suits and a federal fraud investigation.3Vanity Fair. The Runaway Doctor
The Florida Life They Built Together
Weinberger was released to a Florida halfway house in 2014 after serving less than five years of an 84-month federal sentence for healthcare fraud.1NBC Chicago. Convicted Runaway Doctor Starts New Life After Prison He remained in Florida, married his current wife in 2019, and the couple went on to have two small children.
His medical license was permanently revoked in Indiana in 2005, so he could not return to practicing medicine.4ABC News. Fugitive Doctor’s Wife Speaks Out Instead, he rebranded himself online as “Yoga Doc,” running a business called YogaDoctor LLC that sold downloadable yoga classes, with some priced at $200. He also posted cryptocurrency content on YouTube under the name “Mark W.”2Yahoo Finance. Dateline Gives Former Indiana Sinus Doctor Update
By the time the 2025 federal indictment was filed, court records listed him as a 62-year-old resident of Lake Worth Beach, Florida.5Post and Courier. Doctor Indicted in Greenville on Medicare Fraud Charges
Why He Was in Prison Before the Marriage
Weinberger’s new wife married a man with a well-documented criminal history. He ran the Weinberger Sinus Clinic in Merrillville, Indiana, where patients later accused him of performing hundreds of unnecessary or outmoded sinus surgeries. Before disappearing in September 2004, he siphoned roughly $2 million from the clinic, bought diamonds and survival gear, and picked up a copy of the book How to Be Invisible.3Vanity Fair. The Runaway Doctor
He spent more than five years as a fugitive in Europe before Italian Carabinieri officers found him living in a tent on the southern slopes of Mont Blanc in December 2009.6The Guardian. America’s Most Wanted Fugitive Found in Italian Alps Extradited to Indiana, he pleaded guilty to 22 counts of healthcare fraud and was sentenced on October 12, 2012, to 84 months in federal prison plus roughly $108,000 in restitution.7The Indiana Lawyer. Weinberger Sentenced to 84 Months in Prison On the civil side, the Indiana Patient’s Compensation Fund paid $55 million in 2013 to 282 of his former patients, the largest such payout involving a single healthcare professional in Indiana history.8Medscape. Malpractice Roundup: $55M Sinus Surgery Settlement
One of his former patients, Phyllis Barnes, died in 2004 after Weinberger failed to diagnose her throat cancer during surgery.2Yahoo Finance. Dateline Gives Former Indiana Sinus Doctor Update
How Former Patients Reacted to the New Marriage
The Dateline segment that first revealed the marriage and the second family drew sharp reaction from patients he had harmed years earlier. Kayla Thomas, who underwent an unnecessary sinus surgery as a child under Weinberger’s care and later pursued a career in medicine herself, told Dateline: “I’m upset with the thought that he’s still not in jail and that he is in Florida living his best life.” Her mother, Valerie Thomas, called Weinberger “a monster.”1NBC Chicago. Convicted Runaway Doctor Starts New Life After Prison
The 2025 Federal Indictment That Disrupted the Family
On November 5, 2025, Weinberger was arrested on a five-count federal indictment out of the District of South Carolina. He posted a $150,000 bond and the case was transferred from the Southern District of Florida to Greenville, South Carolina, under case number 6:25-cr-1232.5Post and Courier. Doctor Indicted in Greenville on Medicare Fraud Charges9CourtListener. United States v. Weinberger
Prosecutors alleged that between July 2019 and April 2021, roughly the same window in which he married his new wife, Weinberger and co-conspirator Jeffery Brooks ran a scheme to defraud Medicare by submitting false claims for orthotic knee and back braces. Brooks’s Greenville call center solicited beneficiaries’ personal information, and the conspirators allegedly paid kickbacks to licensed doctors to sign off on medically unnecessary orders. The scheme generated approximately $6.7 million in false claims, and Medicare paid out roughly $3.4 million.10U.S. Department of Justice. Florida Man Indicted for Health Care Fraud and Wire Fraud in DME Scheme
Because of his earlier conviction, Weinberger had been excluded from participating in Medicare for a minimum of 15 years. Prosecutors said he concealed his ownership of a Florida-based durable medical equipment company, Cypress Health Solutions LLC, by submitting false enrollment documents.11HHS Office of Inspector General. Florida Man Indicted for Health Care Fraud and Wire Fraud in DME Scheme
Guilty Plea and Where Things Stand
On February 20, 2026, Weinberger entered a guilty plea to count one of the indictment, the conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud and wire fraud charge.12PACER Monitor. USA v. Weinberger, Guilty Plea Filing Sentencing had not yet been scheduled in the most recent available court records. His wife has not been named in any of the charging documents, and no reporting has suggested she is a subject of the investigation.