Con Artists Have to Stand Up For Each Other
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The competition for “very worst cabinet secretary” remains feirce:
Documents obtained by NPR shed new light on a bitter fight between defrauded student borrowers and U.S. Education Secretary Betsy DeVos.
These borrowers — more than 200,000 of them — say some for-profit colleges lied to them about their job prospects and the transferability of credits. They argue they were defrauded and that the Education Department should erase their federal student loan debt under a rule called “borrower defense.”
DeVos disagrees: She says most student borrowers still got value from these schools and deserve only partial relief from their federal loans.
Now, internal Education Department memos obtained by NPR show that career staff in the department’s Borrower Defense Unit came down firmly on the side of defrauded borrowers.
The memos show this unit reviewed thousands of borrower complaints against now-defunct, for-profit colleges, including Corinthian Colleges and ITT Technical Institute. Just weeks before DeVos was sworn in as secretary, the unit recommended to the department’s political leadership that these borrowers deserve no less than full relief from their student debts.
“People who were defrauded actually owe the people who scammed them when you think about it” pretty much exemplifies the entire Trump ethos.
President Trump has paid $2 million in court-ordered damages for misusing funds in a tax-exempt charity he controlled, the New York attorney general said Tuesday.
The payment was ordered last month by a New York state judge in an extraordinary rebuke to a sitting president. Trump had been sued in 2018 by the New York attorney general, who alleged the president had illegally used funds from the Donald J. Trump Foundation to buy portraits of himself, pay off his businesses’ legal obligations and help his 2016 campaign.
Remember the 2016, when Hillary Clinton’s cleanly run life-saving charity received huge amounts of negative coverage, but Donald Trump’s foundation didn’t even though it was literally a total fraud? I see no flaws in this decision-making process.