Episode 9: Nothing Sticks

Evil By Design

CBC

True Crime

4.8 • 845 Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

New criminal charges have been laid against Peter Nygard. New survivors have come forward. And much older allegations have surfaced. But for accusers in Nygard’s hometown — some who were among the most vulnerable in society — justice seems as far away as ever.

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0:00.0	Do you ever get that unsettling feeling that something's wrong with society?
0:04.3	Inequality?
0:04.8	Because our country has no spirit.
0:06.1	...that our body politic is well, rather unwell.
0:11.0	In What's Wrong with Democracy, a podcast brought to you by Tortus and supported by the Open Society Foundations.
0:18.0	Each week, we will surgically investigate democracy's strengths and weaknesses, its parasites,
0:24.3	and pathologies.
0:25.7	The first episode is available to listen to you now, wherever you get your podcasts.
0:31.5	This is a CBC podcast.
0:34.4	The following episode contains difficult subject matter and accounts of sexual assault. Please take care.
0:45.0	It's a warm evening. Thank you, okay, bye-bye.
0:51.1	It's a warm evening in October 2021, and I'm at an airport in Toronto following a tip.
0:58.2	Two men in dark suits emerged from the terminal doors with a frail-looking man in a wheelchair.
1:04.4	He's wearing a black hoodie pulled up over his head, baggy black pants, and a surgical mask covering most of his face.
1:12.2	His escort steady him as he struggles to stand.
1:16.0	Walking with a hunch, he shuffles towards the open doors of a waiting black van.
1:21.8	As the man climbs in, the sleeves of his hoodie pulled back just enough to reveal a pair of silver handcuffs.
1:30.1	This is Peter Nygaard in his first public sighting since his fall in 2020.
1:35.2	We have some breaking news for you. Canadian fashion mogul Peter Nygaard has been arrested.
1:41.3	The Canadian businessman is facing sex trafficking and racketeering charges in the United States.
1:48.3	American authorities want him extradited.
1:50.2	The case involves dozens of women.
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