HAMMOND | Former international fugitive Mark S. Weinberger stepped wide-eyed into a crowded federal courtroom Monday, making his first public appearance in the United States since he disappeared on a family trip to Greece five and a half years ago. Weinberger -- tan and thin, wearing handcuffs and baggy orange Porter County Jail scrubs -- faced questions from Hammond federal Magistrate Judge Paul R. Cherry during the former sinus surgeon's initial appearance on a 22-count fraud indictment that accuses him of putting patients under anesthesia at his Merrillville clinic and charging for procedures he never performed. Weinberger, who was arrested on a snowy Italian mountainside Dec. 15, sported a recently shaved head and a few days' growth of black and gray beard stubble in court Monday. Initial hearings cover mundane procedural matters and they rarely draw a crowd, but Weinberger, who was profiled on "America's Most Wanted," encountered a courtroom cramped with news reporters, civil lawyers and court personnel. An unusually large complement of four US marshals attended. Lawyer Kenneth Allen, who represents many of the hundreds of people who are suing Weinberger in civil court, came to federal court Monday armed with a writ of habeas corpus signed by Lake Superior Court Judge Diane Kavadias-Schneider. Allen stepped to the television news microphones in the windy cold outside the courthouse and said the writ means Weinberger must be sent from jail to give a deposition to ...
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