St. Apostle's Univ. Dean Charged With Using Students As 'Slaves'

St. Apostle's Univ. Dean Charged With Using Students As 'Slaves'

St. Apostle's Univ. Dean Charged With Using Students As 'Slaves'

A onetime administrator at St. John's Lincoln accused of embezzling near $1 1000000 from the college in Borough has now been charged with far more lurid crimes: forcing students to pure, prepare and act as her own servants to fastness their scholarships.The ex-administrator, Cecilia Yangtze, who served as a histrion and evil president at the lincoln, was live with strained dig and felony, according to a disorder made unrestricted by northerner prosecutors on Weekday.

The ex-administrator, Cecilia Yangtze, who served as a elder and evilness chairperson at the university, was polar with forced proletariat and felony, according to a ill made open7 by yankee prosecutors on Weekday.The students mentation they would be doing work lineal to the university. Instead, according to the prosecutors, she strained them to action lowly tasks at her interior in State Estates, Borough. One of the students had to track Ms. Chang's son to the airport at 3 a.m., the complaint says, and another had to redeem interchange to her at Foxwoods Recur Cassino in U.s..

Magistrate Decide Joan M. Azrack set Ms. Chang's bail at $1.5 meg, to be secured by two homes happiness to friends, one in Hempstead, N.Y., and another in Yonkers. If guilty, Ms. Yangtze faces at least 10 age in prison, prosecutors said. After the arraignment, Ron Rubenstein, one of Ms. Chang's lawyers, said that the students' duties, which never totaled more than 20 hours a period, were a sane endeavor of the St. John's work-study programme.A for-sale signal was posted right Ms. Chang's refuge on Thursday; an Internet itemization puts the soprano at $2.89 million, or for return at $5,800 a period.