DAILY NEWS: President Of Brooklyn College Resigns For Second Time Following Sexual Misconduct Claims

BROOKLYN: Alex Shchegol, the founder and long-time president of ASA College, a for-profit institution with roughly 3,000 students across three campuses in New York City and Florida, first called it quits in 2018 following a lawsuit alleging he used an employee to help him find women to abuse.

The suit was later settled out of court for $500,000, according to documents reviewed by The News.

At least nine other women, including some foreign students, have come forward accusing Shchegol of sexual misconduct including rape, the Daily News reported in a November investigation.

But the accusations didn’t stop Shchegol from engineering a comeback.

Last fall, Shchegol used his authority as sole owner of ASA to dismiss most of the college’s board of trustees.

He replaced them with board members who voted him back into the presidency in October.

But Shchegol’s second act as president was short-lived.

He resigned his post effective Dec. 31, according to a Thursday email from interim board chair Frank Seddio, a former state assemblyman, Brooklyn Democratic Party chair and long-time friend of Shchegol.

Seddio joked to The News in November that the board’s first move after reinstating Shchegol was to hire “two mohels...to cut his d--k off.”.... 

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