Unlicensed Florida doctor jailed over botched butt surgery

An unlicensed doctor in south Florida was sentenced to 44 months behind bars after he gave botched butt and penis injections to two different patients 19 years after another patient died during an enlargement procedure.

Former plastic surgeon Mark Schreiber pleaded guilty to two counts of practicing medicine without a license and will also be forced to pay $145,000 restitution to the victim of the butt implant as part of the agreement in a plea deal struck last week in Miami-Dade Circuit Court, the Miami Herald reported.

The 62-year-old doctor was first placed on probation by Florida's health department after he performed a botched penis enlargement and face-lift that killed a 51-year-old patient in 1998. 

He came under scrutiny again four years alter from the health department after 73-year-old Ralph DiGiovanni died of a heart attack two days after he had a neck lift at the surgeon's office. 

Then, in 2005 numerous patients came forward complaining about his work, causing his license to be suspended that same year when a woman claimed that he touched her inappropriately while performing a surgery. 

But Schreiber still continued to practice medicine until he was forced to give up his license one year later. 

He was arrested by police after he illegally operated on four different women. For that case, he served two years behind bars. 
Schreiber was later sued along with West Palm Beach's Bethesda Memorial Hospital after a botched surgery left a woman with horrific scars. 

She was awarded $7.7million by a jury in April 2016. 
When Schreiber was released from prison in 2010, he still continued to practice medicine covertly, prosecutors said. 

Plus, he was arrested in Broward County on drug possession charges after he was caught with MDMA (Ecstasy), Vicodin, amphetamine and marijuana. For those charges, he accepted a plea deal. 
Schreiber was also charged in state court after a botched injection he performed on a woman at the now-closed Bella Beauty Spa - where hundreds of women had their butts injected with illegal silicone. 
That clinic was owned by Maribel Jimenez, who was recently sentenced to serve six years in federal prison for having the silicone imported from Colombia.

Schreiber gave hundreds of women illegal butt silicone injections at the now-closed Bella Beauty Spa. The owner of spa, Maribel Jimenz (left), is serving six years in federal prison. Ex-spa employee, Magaly del Rosario (right), is serving four years and eight months in prison

Magaly del Rosario, another employee at the spa, was also sentenced to four years and eight months in federal prison. 

Jimenz and Schreiber were ordered in April by a Miami-Dade judge to pay $818,000 in damages to a former patient at the spa who suffered permanent injuries from a botched Brazilian butt lift surgery.  

In addition, he was charged criminally in state court and is required to pay the additional $145,000 to Stephanie Rodriguez after she suffered extensive injuries from the botched procedure at the spa. 

Schreiber also pleaded guilty in a separate case where he was accused of performing a botched penis enlargement in 2015. 

The man had received a botched operation from another suspected illegal doctor prior to seeing Schreiber. 

After the procedure with Schreiber, the man woke up at home and discovered 'blood-soaked bandages' and that his penis was 'mutilated', court documents state. 

Police said that the  man sent text message photos of his disfigured penis to Schreiber.  

'At that point, rather than referring that gentleman to a hospital … he recommends to take two popsicle sticks and tie his penis together and wait for swelling to go down,' a Miami-Dade prosecutor said at a hearing last year, the Miami Herald reported.