Edward P. Mattar III, who once presided over the now-defunct Central New England College, in Worcester, Mass., died early Friday morning in an apparent suicide plunge from the 27th floor of a Denver apartment building, the Worcester Telegram & Gazette reported today.
Mr. Mattar was to be sentenced Friday afternoon for his part in a scam involving the sale of credit cards to people with bad finances.
He was president of the college from 1978 until 1988, when an audit revealed mismanagement and at least $14-million of debt. The college, nearly a century old, was shuttered in 1989. —Don Troop
