Asian crime: A disgraced dean at St John's University in New York has committed suicide after she went on trial for embezzling $1 million and forcing students to work as her servants

Dr Cecilia Chang, 59, who was in charge of the university's Asian studies program, was found dead in her Jamaica Estates home in Queens one day after she testified at her own trial and denied taking money from the university. Dr Chang, who was nicknamed "the Dean of Mean", was also reportedly a suspect in the 1990 murder of her first husband, who was shot three times in the back by an unknown assassin.