After losing a $64 million civil suit to the government, Peter Rogan fled to Canada and lived in a swanky Vancouver penthouse. Even after the feds filed criminal charges, they struggled to bring him back back to Chicago. Meanwhile, the Edgewater Hospital campus crumbled and became a magnet for crime. The neighborhood demanded it be torn down.

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This episode was written and produced by: Todd Ganz

After losing a $64 million civil suit to the government, Peter Rogan fled to Canada and lived in a swanky Vancouver penthouse. Even after the feds filed criminal charges, they struggled to bring him back back to Chicago. Meanwhile, the Edgewater Hospital campus crumbled and became a magnet for crime. The neighborhood demanded it be torn down.
See photos of Peter Rogan's yacht and haunting images of the abandoned hospital on the episode page of our website: <a href="https://ifthewallscouldtalkpodcast.com/episodes/fringe-benefit/">IftheWallsCouldTalkPodcast.com</a>
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This episode was written and produced by: Todd Ganz

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How did a group of bad apples turn a premiere Chicago hospital into a "butcher shop"? If the walls of Edgewater Hospital could talk, they would proudly share the years of good medicine before breaking down into tears recounting the horrible crimes done within those walls. Hear former employees, patients, FBI agents, lawyers, and urban explorers share what happened in this history / true crime podcast series.

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New owners took over a struggling Chicago hospital and did just about anything to fill up the beds. During the '90s and 2000s, Edgewater Hospital performed hundreds of unnecessary heart surgeries on patients just to pad its bottom line. Hear what lengths the government had to go to in order to stop the fraud and why many believe the owner got away with it. Former employees, patients, investigators, and urban explorers recount the tangled history of Chicago's Edgewater Hospital. If the walls of Edgewater Hospital could talk, they would proudly share the years of good medicine before breaking down into tears recounting the unthinkable crimes done there during its final decade.

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