15 Oct 2012
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foreign exchange student who feared that her scholarship would be taken
away had to work like a servant to a dean of a prestigious New York
university, a court heard today.
The student, a Chinese national Peiyi Gan, cooked, cleaned, swept, did dishes and the laundry for Dr Cecelia Chang, the dean of the Asian studies at St John’s University. Dr Chang is also accused of embezzling $ one million, according to the New York Post.
The money Dr Chang embezzled were used for shopping sprees and for gambling at top-notch casinos, according to the videotaped deposition submitted at Brooklyn Federal court.
The dean has directed Gan to doctor documents so she could claim hundreds of thousands of dollars from the university. She is alleged to have disguised her personal expenses as official expenditure to claim money from the university.
“She asked me to do every month”, Gan, 31, has said.
Testifying further Gan said that she faxed forged documents to casinos where Dr Chang gambled frequently. Gan received her Master’s degree in 2007.
According to the newspaper she siphoned money from the university to pay off her gambling debts. Three other students also testified against the dean.
Jing Zhou another student told the court she was forced to wash, clean and dry Dr Chang’s underwear.
The student, a Chinese national Peiyi Gan, cooked, cleaned, swept, did dishes and the laundry for Dr Cecelia Chang, the dean of the Asian studies at St John’s University. Dr Chang is also accused of embezzling $ one million, according to the New York Post.
The money Dr Chang embezzled were used for shopping sprees and for gambling at top-notch casinos, according to the videotaped deposition submitted at Brooklyn Federal court.
The dean has directed Gan to doctor documents so she could claim hundreds of thousands of dollars from the university. She is alleged to have disguised her personal expenses as official expenditure to claim money from the university.
“She asked me to do every month”, Gan, 31, has said.
Testifying further Gan said that she faxed forged documents to casinos where Dr Chang gambled frequently. Gan received her Master’s degree in 2007.
According to the newspaper she siphoned money from the university to pay off her gambling debts. Three other students also testified against the dean.
Jing Zhou another student told the court she was forced to wash, clean and dry Dr Chang’s underwear.
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