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"If anyone at all has a class action lawsuit or is thinking of getting one started, PLEASE contact me. I have the names of several other students (who've) been down this very road and are willing to be part of this as well!"
On August 6, 2010, Chronicle.com writer Goldie Blumenstyk headlined, "Kaplan Suspends Enrollment at Campuses Where Federal Investigators Found Recruiting Abuses," saying:
Two campuses were involved, one in Florida "where undercover government investigators posing as applicants encountered admissions officers who lied about the college's accreditation and admissions-test proctors who coached the investigators on the answers." Recruiters also "scolded and mocked them for being hesitant to take out government-subsidized loans" for tuition.
Encounters were videotaped and played at an August Senate hearing. Kaplan executives did a poor Claude Rains imitation - he as Captain Renault in Casablanca, saying he was shocked, shocked about what he knew was going on. Kaplan officials disingenuously said they were "sickened" about apparent practices endemic throughout its system for years.
They've been accused many times before. At least four pending former employee lawsuits raise similar allegations as the government's. As of June 2010, Kaplan had over 112,000 students enrolled, an 18% increase over the previous year, many easy pickings to rip off for more profits ahead, even in a dire economy.
In his Daily Censored article, Weil explained that Kaplan enrolls poor and low-income students on federal loans, leaving them "indebted and unemployed." A whistleblower exposed the scheme - how hundreds of unsuspecting students are recruited, then abandoned in debt.
Students enrolled in the "CHI/Kaplan Surgical Technology Program....were purposely not being told (that) externship (clinical experience) sites, required for the....program would not be available." If true, it amounts to "concealment fraud, overt misrepresentation and possible theft of Title IV funds."
Yet for years, students were enrolled for an annual tuition cost of around $24,000. "When the fraud was detected....hundreds of students (couldn't) finish their programs and had their personal lives and credit history ruined."
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