Byline: MELISSA GRACE Staff writer
A Colonie abortion provider who fled the country three years ago while facing a Medicaid fraud investigation pleaded not guilty Wednesday to stealing nearly $30,000 from poor patients and the state health insurance fund.
A sealed indictment dating from December 1996 and charging Dr. Mark Albert Binder with grand larceny, fraud and filing of false instruments was opened by County Judge Thomas A. Breslin. If convicted, the 59-year-old physician could be sentenced to a maximum of 7 years in prison.
Binder was jailed for 45 days in 1996 for refusing to turn over records from abortion clinics and then fled in the face …
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