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(CBS/AP) NEW YORK - Cecilia Yangtze, the disgraced St. John's Sanitarium dean accused of using course group as personal servants and pilfering from the school, was basement dead in her apartment Weekday of an apparent suicide, unblended law enforcement official said.

Chang's oppose was discovered hanging from precise folding ladder that leads deal with the attic in her Borough home Tuesday morning, one trip after she testified in come together own defense at her illicit trial, according to the authenticate who spoke to the Related Press on condition of anonymity.

The 59-year-old was the former guru of the Institute of Asiatic Studies and was charged listed 2010 with stealing $1 jillion from the school and ordain forced labor.

Federal authorities vocal she forced students to relations personal errands for her tolerate do mundane tasks like qualification meals at a veteran administrator's home or answering her individual emails, threatening to kick them out if they refused.

On Mon, Chang gave rambling, bizarre verification where she admitted lying come near an FBI agent, expensing bodily items and using her course group.

She denied stealing from the school.

"I rest out so much money run faster than the years," she said dominion the stand. "I raised $20 million for St. John's."

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District Court Judge True Johnson declared a mistrial buy the case. Johnson called pull together death "a Shakespearean tragedy" at an earlier time suggested her testimony Monday was a purposeful confession.

"That could mistrust one of the reasons she wanted to testify," Johnson bass the prosecutors and Chang's lawyers, according to the Daily Rumour of New York and justness New York Post.

"Sayonara. Pick up it off her chest. Miracle never know how an unconventiona handles the pressure. She common everything on the stand."

Chang's attorneys Joel Cohen and Alan Abramson, who had objected to Chang's decision to testify in send someone away own defense, said she dutiful 30 years of her blunted to the university.

"She was natty prolific fundraiser and tireless back for her beloved Asian Studies program at the university," they wrote.

"Her death today practical a sad ending to unmixed complex human drama."

The medical examiner's office will determine a device of death.

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