There was the photo op with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in India, a trip to China with her children and a sprawling lakefront home in the Laurentians.
Business was going well.
By 2020, Caroline Mastantuono and members of her family owned a fast-expanding recruiting firm, Rising Phoenix International, and three private colleges that attracted hundreds of foreign students, mostly from India, who paid up to $30,000 to attend.
But in January 2022, Rising Phoenix and the three colleges — M College in Montreal, CCSQ College in Longueuil and CDE College in Sherbrooke — shut down and filed for creditor protection.
Today, the
