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kgnu_fan

(3,021 posts)
Fri Mar 18, 2016, 10:59 AM Mar 2016

Hillary confidant & Clinton Foundation lawyer

is working for Univ of Phoenix to help the school continue to to scam veterans
via Lee Fang
https://twitter.com/lhfang/status/710533090754609152



Top Democratic Lawyer Pushed Pentagon to End U. of Phoenix Suspension
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/davidhalperin/top-democratic-lawyer-pus_b_9487600.html


Gorelick has consistently contributed to Hillary Clinton’s Senate and presidential campaigns. And last year, Gorelick, now a partner at the powerhouse law firm WilmerHale, represented the Clinton Foundation in a federal lawsuit.

Hillary Clinton has made clear that as president she would be tough on abuses by for-profit colleges, telling the audience at her first campaign event last year, an April 14 education roundtable discussion in Monticello, Iowa:


Some of the for-profit schools, some of the scandals that have arisen in these places where they take all this money and put all these young people and their families into debt. Even if they graduate they don’t have credentials that are going to get them those jobs. Or they can’t graduate because the other costs are just too great and they can’t continue to incur debt, so they drop out, but they still have the debt, but they don’t have the degree or the credential. So we have to sort this out, and we have to take on those interests that want to keep the system the way it is because it generates a lot of money and a lot of interest payments for them....



But Jamie Gorelick and her law firm have recently fought on behalf of such “interests that want to keep the system the way it is,” arguing at the Pentagon, and in a separate federal lawsuit, against efforts by the Obama Administration to hold these institutions accountable for bad behavior.

Clinton’s strong stance in favor of protecting students sharply contrasts with GOP candidate Donald Trump, who ran the fraudulent, unlicensed, unaccredited Trump University. But however bad that phony Trump school was, in some respects the harms caused by accredited for-profit colleges like the University of Phoenix are worse: Student debt levels can be much higher than from Trump’s school, and, because accredited schools are eligible for federal student grants and loans, American taxpayers can be left with much of the bill.


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So which Hillary?
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djean111

(14,255 posts)
1. Any "strong stance" of Hillary's will be for protecting the profits of the schools and lenders.
Fri Mar 18, 2016, 11:02 AM
Mar 2016

Bottom line. The schools will be able to charge even higher tuition and the lenders will be able to stretch out those loans, garnering more interest.

Kip Humphrey

(4,753 posts)
6. Give out a great big cheer for Corporate Socialism! Yeah!
Fri Mar 18, 2016, 11:12 AM
Mar 2016

Because everyone knows the global fascism is best!

for the slow-witted:

amborin

(16,631 posts)
7. we all saw the attitude toward veterans at that speech where the security guard brutalized a war her
Fri Mar 18, 2016, 09:07 PM
Mar 2016

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