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Charles Wang, a technology company founder and former owner of the New York Islanders hockey team, died Sunday. He was 74.

Wang died in Oyster Bay, N.Y., said his lawyer John McEntee in an e-mailed statement. A cause of death was not disclosed.

Wang bought the Islanders in 2000 along with Sanjay Kumar, then the president of Computer Associates International, which Wang founded in 1976. He later bought out Kumar’s stake in 2004. Kumar pleaded guilty in an accounting fraud scandal at the company in 2006 and served a prison term.

Wang had attended only one hockey game before buying the team for almost US$190-million, McEntee said.

But in 2009, he told Newsday he regretted buying the money-losing team, saying, “If I had the chance, I wouldn’t do it again.”

Wang announced in 2014 that he was selling the team to a group of investors, and it took effect in 2016. Since then, he had been a minority co-owner.

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