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Sunday, October 4, 2009

Recruiter lawsuit may get closure


Recruiter lawsuit may get closure:

"They said the school covered up its fraudulent practices in a number of ways, including code words for the number of enrollments required to win a contest. Instead of saying 50 enrollments were needed, the lawsuit says a middle-aged manager said, 'You know how old I am.'

'There's clear evidence that they knew what they were doing was wrong and did it nonetheless, essentially trying to pull the wool over the Department of Education and by extension you and me, the taxpayers who are footing the bill for a university that has abysmally low completion rates,' said San Francisco lawyer Robert Nelson, the lead attorney for the enrollment counselors, in an interview before the settlement talks were announced.

Their attorney denied requests to interview Albertson and Hendow."