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Betsy DeVos Hires Former DeVry Official To Investigate For-Profit Fraud
Betsy DeVos has hired a former official at the for-profit college DeVry University to run a unit that investigates for-profit college fraud, according to an email obtained by BuzzFeed News.
The hiring of Julian Schmoke to head the so-called enforcement unit, which was first reported by Politico, prompted anxiety and frustration from some people inside the Education Department who had worked on fraud investigations, said a person with knowledge of the situation.
Reactions to the move are tied up in a record-breaking $100 million settlement against DeVry, reached last year with the Federal Trade Commission, over allegations that the school had misled students about their chances of getting a job. The company also reached settlements with the New York attorney general and the Education Department.
Despite the fact that Schmoke was not closely involved in DeVry's corporate operations, some staff at the Education Department were upset — concerned, one person at the department said, about the unit's ability to hold for-profit colleges, especially DeVry, accountable.
Schmoke will oversee a unit that is actively looking into DeVry's operations, according to two people with knowledge of the enforcement unit's work. And he will help determine the fate of more than 1,875 former DeVry students who filed claims saying they were defrauded by the university. Those students filed so-called "borrower defense" claims, saying that they were defrauded by DeVry and are entitled to have their student loans forgiven.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/mollyhensleyclancy/betsy-devos-hiring-of-a-former-for-profit-college-dean-to?utm_term=.px82memA4#.cuJ3ZPZeY
The hiring of Julian Schmoke to head the so-called enforcement unit, which was first reported by Politico, prompted anxiety and frustration from some people inside the Education Department who had worked on fraud investigations, said a person with knowledge of the situation.
Reactions to the move are tied up in a record-breaking $100 million settlement against DeVry, reached last year with the Federal Trade Commission, over allegations that the school had misled students about their chances of getting a job. The company also reached settlements with the New York attorney general and the Education Department.
Despite the fact that Schmoke was not closely involved in DeVry's corporate operations, some staff at the Education Department were upset — concerned, one person at the department said, about the unit's ability to hold for-profit colleges, especially DeVry, accountable.
Schmoke will oversee a unit that is actively looking into DeVry's operations, according to two people with knowledge of the enforcement unit's work. And he will help determine the fate of more than 1,875 former DeVry students who filed claims saying they were defrauded by the university. Those students filed so-called "borrower defense" claims, saying that they were defrauded by DeVry and are entitled to have their student loans forgiven.
https://www.buzzfeed.com/mollyhensleyclancy/betsy-devos-hiring-of-a-former-for-profit-college-dean-to?utm_term=.px82memA4#.cuJ3ZPZeY
What could go wrong?
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Count on it
Sure is preferable though to someone who ... ... ..
oops, I almost went there again
(closest I could get to a clever word play...)
But it truly is.
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That hasn't stopped anyone in this horrid administration so far! 