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bemildred

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Thu Dec 4, 2014, 10:31 PM Dec 2014

Feds: For-profit college used strippers to lure students

A for-profit Florida college used exotic dancers as admissions officers, falsified documents and coached students to lie on financial forms as it fraudulently obtained millions of dollars in federal money, according to a federal lawsuit filed in Miami.

On at least one of its seven campuses, FastTrain College "purposely hired attractive women and sometimes exotic dancers and encouraged them to dress provocatively while they recruited young men in neighborhoods to attend FastTrain," according to an ongoing civil lawsuit. The Florida attorney general and the U.S. attorney in Miami announced Wednesday that they were joining the lawsuit against the now-defunct FastTrain, which pitched medical and computer career training, and former owner Alejandro Amor, 56.

Amor, of Coral Gables, was criminally indicted in October and faces pending charges of conspiracy and theft of government money. A telephone message left at a listing for Amor wasn't immediately returned

The complaint says Miami-based FastTrain and Amor bilked the U.S. Department of Education out of millions of dollars with falsified grant applications from at least January 2009 through June 2012, when the school closed after an FBI raid.

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Here you go kid, study this.

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Feds: For-profit college used strippers to lure students (Original Post) bemildred Dec 2014 OP
I think this was an episode of Community. n/t Iris Dec 2014 #1
More for profit crooks. Initech Dec 2014 #2
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