Former hospital exec gets 21 months for perjury
only $800 in monthly income, all from Social Security. His wife allegedly claimed to make only $850 a month from the same source. Meanwhile, prosecutors said in a court filing that Rogan paid between $4,000 and $5,000 monthly to rent a Vancouver penthouse since 2006. And Rogan’s wife allegedly paid $2,000 a month for a Valparaiso home since 2008. Between 2009 and 2015, prosecutors said Rogan’s sister funneled more than $600,000 from an account in her name to Rogan’s Canadian attorneys, his landlord, his three children and his wife. Prosecutors said Rogan turned out to be an additional account holder, and his former business office in Merrillville was also associated with the account. “His will to lie has not been broken yet,” Boutros said Wednesday. “And he needs to be incapacitat-ed." Rogan moved to Canada in 2006, fought extradition and finally returned to Chicago in June to face 2008 criminal charges stemming from the operation of his now-shuttered hospital. Prosecutors said earlier this year he faced a maximum 50 years in prison and a $1 million fine. Last month, Rogan pleaded guilty to filing a false affidavit on Dec. 21, 2006, in which he claimed to have no control over the trust fund in the Bahamas. The affidavit read, “I have no control over the Irrevocable Trust or its distribution to the beneficiaries …,” according to Rogan’s plea agreement.
Peter Rogan hid from the feds in Canada for more than seven years.
The former Chicago hospital executive destroyed more than 60 boxes of records that would have revealed “God knows what,” and he skipped his son’s wedding to avoid service of a civil citation throughout his “more-than-a-decade’s worth” of “lies, obstruction, contempt and conspiratorial conduct,” prosecutors said.
Now Rogan, 69, will spend less than two years in prison after admitting last month to committing perjury by lying about his ability to control a trust fund in the Bahamas as the government tried to collect on a $64.3 million judgment. U.S. District Judge Harry Leinenweber sentenced Rogan on Wednesday to 21months in prison, the maximum allowed under Rogan’s plea deal with prosecutors.
“Peter G. Rogan worships the golden calf,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Andrew Boutros said. “That golden calf that he worships is money.”
Thomas Breen, Rogan’s attorney, said in court filings his client has “been villainized in the press and in civil lawsuits.” Breen told the judge that sentencing “is not a vindictive moment in the criminal justice system,” and he asked Leinenweber to sentence the exowner of Edgewater Hospital and Medical Center to a year and a day in prison.
Rogan, dressed in an orange jumpsuit, apologized in court.
“I accept responsibility for my false affidavit,” Rogan said.
But faced with $188 million in judgments won by the feds and Dexia Credit Local bank, Boutros said Rogan forced authorities to scour the globe for his money like Captain Ahab in “Moby-Dick.” Rogan “magically” decided to return to Chicago in June, Boutros said.
Even then, prosecutors alleged this week that Rogan’s lies didn’t stop. Rogan allegedly claimed after returning to Chicago to have