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Ton said he was quite flexible when billing insurance companies. >> it all depended on the amount the insurance company was willing to pay. it could be anywhere from $1500 to $16,000 per procedure. >> as much as $16,000 per procedure, 15 to 20 procedures a week. >> correct. >> in a good week, how much money do you think he took in? >> i do know that at one point for the entire business he was bringing in about $1 million a month. >> even a man with expensive taste, such as mark weinberger, could...

Ton said he was quite flexible when billing insurance companies. >> it all depended on the amount the insurance company was willing to pay. it could be anywhere from $1500 to $16,000 per procedure. >> as much as $16,000 per procedure, 15 to 20 procedures a week. >> correct. >> in a good week, how much money do you think he took in? >> i do know that at one point for the entire business he was bringing in about $1 million a month. >> even a man with expensive taste, such as mark weinberger, could...

When billing insurance companies. >> it all depended on the amount the insurance company was willing to pay. it could be anywhere from $1500 to $16,000 per procedure. >> as much as $16,000 per procedure, 15 to 20 procedures a week. >> correct. >> in a good week, how much money do you think he took in? >> i do know that at one point for the entire business he was bringing in about $1 million a month. >> even a man with expensive taste, such as mark weinberger, could live large on a cash flow like...

Could live large on a cash flow like that. and according to writer buzz bissinger, he did. at home, there were uniformed maids, a personal trainer and masseuse. >> he would go on these spending sprees. he lived in a $2.5 million condominium. he had three drivers on call by limo. >> who could have known in those first blissful days, as the music played and champagne flowed, how it would all end. certainly not mark weinbergers new bride michelle. >> a northwest indiana doctor is apparently on the ...

Narrator: even a man with expensive taste, such as mark weinberger, could live large on a cash flow like that. and according to writer buzz bissinger, he did. at home, there were uniformed maids, a personal trainer, and a masseuse. he would go on these spending sprees, he lived in a $2-1/2 million condominium. he had three drivers on call by limo. narrator: who could have known in those first blissful days, as the music played and champagne flowed, how it would all end? certainly, not mark weinb...

Down allegations she was a habitual drug user. celebrity chefs two assistants are the ones who are on trial for allegedly using her credit cards to go on spending sprees. but their defense that lawson gave them the green light to spend lavishly in return for their silence about her extreme drug use forced lawson in to the spotlight. on the stand, she admitted to using cocaine a handful of times and said she smoked the "odd joint" that she admitted she asked her assistants to roll for her but ins...

Ac/dc proclaimed, its a long ordered a massive cruise liner worth $700 million which way to the top if you want to included a 120-ton shark tank. rock n roll. madison rising discovered its >> the problem is if you have an harder to get there if you want to do more than rock n roll. aquarium on a ship, the fish >> the mission is to promote become sea sick. so you have to make special american culture, to bring back provisions. great rock music, authentic rock >> the offspring of autocrats music, ...

Late dictator colonel gadhafi ordered a massive cruise liner worth $700 million which included a 120-ton shark tank. >> the problem is if you have an aquarium on a ship, the fish become sea sick. so you have to make special provisions. >> the offspring of autocrats are notorious for lavish spending sprees. theodore mange, the son of the longest-serving african leader, president of equatorial guinea, owns this the $30 million malibu action. the population does not have access to clean water. >> t...

Today on capitol hill at the first of four hearings on the spending scandal. investigators say gsa also sent its interns to a ritzy resort in palm springs. and let officials spent a week in hawaii for an event that lasted but one hour. remember, this agency is supposed to save taxpayer dollars. but some workers made music videos bragging about their spending sprees. ♪ i traveled the world ♪ who london and peru ♪ getting that voucher approved for me too ♪ aint no place better than gsa. >>...

and his new book the time of our lives, what he thinks america needs now. >> this is what we can learn from another time. >> tom brokaw for the hour. this is "piers morgan tonight." tom brokaw is one of my journalistic heroes. he anchored the nbc "nightly news" for 22 years. he has also become awe celebrated author. his book "the time of our lives" and im thrilled to say that tom brokaw joins me now. welcome. >> its very good to be here and that business about me being your hero, you...