CHICAGO —The former head of the all-but-demolished Edgewater Medical Center was sentenced to 21 months in federal prison last week after failing to pay more than $188 million owed from multiple charges of fraud and corruption, according to officials.
Peter G. Rogan, 69, pleaded guilty last month to one count of perjury, the U.S. Attorney's Office said in a statement.
Rogan also lied in a federal affidavit when he denied being in control of millions of dollars in a trust account in the Bahamas, and knowingly violated multiple court orders to protect those offshore assets from judgment creditors.
Creditors had wanted to gain access to those accounts in order to collect more than $188 million in combined civil judgments stemming from fraud during Rogan’s tenure as CEO of the defunct medical center at 5700 N. Ashland Ave., according to officials.
For his failure to pay the multimillion judgments, Rogan was sentenced to 21 months in a federal prison.
U.S. District Judge Harry D. Leinenweber also ordered Rogan to comply with all outstanding court orders, the statement said.
In the last year, the former hospital's parking garage was purchased to make way for million-dollar single family homes. The tall towers were also bought by the same development company, who plans to demolish them to make way for a 12-story residential building — though they agreed to pay $3.9 million for the towers at a later date, court records show.
The Edgewater Medical Center was once owned by Rogan but later sold, though he continued to manage the facility through various companies he owned until it closed in 2001 amid a criminal investigation.
That investigation ultimately resulted in a Rogan-owned management company being convicted of health care fraud, in which a hospital administrator and several doctors were found guilty.
In 2006, the United States won a civil judgment of $64,259,032 against Rogan for his role in the medical center's Medicare fraud scheme.
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