Cecilia Chang is charged with using scholarship students as servants. (Photo: Ellis Kaplan/New York Post)
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Cecilia Chang, the former St. John’s University (New York) dean who was charged earlier this month with embezzling over $1 million in donations from the college, is facing a new set of charges from the FBI: using scholarship students as servants.
Chang allegedly forced students to do her laundry, clean her house, cook, chauffeur her son around, and deliver money to her while on gambling trips, the New York Post reports.
“Chang threatened the students and placed them in fear that if they refused to perform these personal services they would lose their scholarships and be unable to attend St. John’s,” FBI Special Agent Kenneth Hosey wrote in the arrest warrant.
The Post gives more details:
Chang had four students working seven days a week as her personal valets, one was forced to driver her son to the airport at 3 a.m. Others shoveled snow, took out the garbage and shuttled her to her hair salon, according to court papers.“[Chang] let me be the housekeeper for her house and give me scholarship,” one scholarship student wrote to the college. “We have three housekeeper before, and she ask us work 122 days per year per person.”
In September, Chang was indicted for running up $50,000 personal charges monthly and passing them on to the university using phony expense statements.
In fact, the FBI alleges that one student was told to doctor Chang's credit card statements for personal expenses so that she could submit them for reimbursement.
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