Betsy DeVos's Hiring Of A Former For-Profit College Dean To Head Fraud Unit Spurs Anger

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

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.

https://www.buzzfeed.com/mollyhensleyclancy/betsy-devos-hiring-of-a-former-for-profit-college-dean-to?utm_term=.toLzRy8a4#.pdaP3jwAY

[Angry Dragon]

1. Devos, DeVry ....... looks like incest to me

[shenmue]

2. Yep

[Nevernose]

3. It's a step up, in my opinion

From hiring Mnuchin -- a guy who made a lot of money illegally foreclosing on the unfortunate -- to be Secretary of the Treasury.

In my opinion, that's been the biggest mistake of the Democratic Party in the last ten years: not sending more of these people to prison, publicly. If the government lost the case? Better than nothing. I also think they should have pressed for stronger laws and regulations, more than what we got (but that's a whole debate about tactics)