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Two former executives at the for-profit Los Angeles Film School have sued the school, its connected operation Full Sail University, and the schools’ main owner, Bill Heavener, alleging that the school has defrauded federal taxpayers for years via a scheme that certified fake job placements for graduates.  The complaint, filed last year in U.S. district
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A new report filed with the Federal Election Commission shows that the troubled for-profit college operation Perdoceo Education Corp. donated $50,000 to the 2025 Trump-Vance Inaugural Committee. Almost all of Perdoceo’s revenue comes from U.S. taxpayers. The report filed this week by the Trump committee lists, among hundreds of other gifts from corporations and individuals,
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Fox News host Pete Hegseth, Donald Trump’s choice to serve as the next U.S. Secretary of Defense, was, during the first Trump administration, paid by the main trade group representing for-profit colleges, and he spoke out against legislation aimed at protecting military service members and veterans from deceptive schools that bury former students in debt.
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Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives are once again pressuring the Biden Department of Education to overlook abuses by predatory colleges, and to stop granting debt relief to former students — veterans, single parents, and others — who have been victimized by these schools. The House Appropriations committee is set on Wednesday morning to
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Former Vice President Mike Pence will be the keynote speaker at this summer’s annual convention of CECU, the national trade association of for-profit colleges. CECU (full name, Career Education Colleges and Universities) announced Pence’s appearance in a March 22 press release. The CECU convention will be held in June in Pence’s home state of Indiana,
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“I’ve built a lot of buildings, and Black workers are great workers. They’ve done an incredible job,” said absurd ex-president Donald J. Trump, speaking to a group of Black Republicans in South Carolina on Friday. I don’t know if you have noticed, but a lot of people, in Trump’s accounting, have done An Incredible Job. Often
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The executive chairman of Perdoceo, one of the nation’s largest taxpayer-funded for-profit college operations, has been sued by the parents of his daughter-in-law, two years after she was found dead from what authorities ruled a suicide. On August 8, Traci Phillips and Troy Pehrson, the parents of Tiffani Nelson, filed a civil complaint in District
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No one has made more frequent and extravagant claims that there has been U.S. election fraud than Donald J. Trump.  Among other charges over the past fifteen years, Trump falsely claimed: that Barack Obama may have been wrongly elected president in 2008 because he possibly concealed that he was not born in the United States;
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