The Education Department is intervening on behalf of student loan servicers, some accused of illegally exploiting borrowers, by declining to turn over information to law enforcement agencies in multiple states investigating the businesses, some consumer advocates say.
"It's a brazen act of lawlessness," said Christopher Peterson, a law professor at the University of Utah and former enforcement lawyer at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the government's consumer watchdog.Diane Auer Jones, a top adviser to Education Secretary Betsy DeVos, Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., one of the lawmakers who received the letter and a vocal critic of the department under DeVos, said the explanation from Jones gets at the heart of how she believes the department has put the interests of student loan servicers before student borrowers.
"However, recent steps by the Department suggest your agency's previous commitment to information-sharing with law enforcement may no longer be your policy or practice," the lawmakers said.
Trumpian politics is not really a political philosophy. It's more of a criminal mentality.
Gaslighting by those who don’t want school choice , want to keep kids trapped in crap schools
WTF?
More obstruction of justice from the trump admin. You are a sham of a government. You stand only for corporate greed & big $ & will go to any extent to protect. Betsy Devis USA disgrace
Do Republican’ts think consumer protection means protecting corporations from consumers they’ve screwed?
How did she get this job and has no educational experience. If she gets her way, public education will disappear. The whole republican regime and their clown members should all be voted out of office.
What a surprise that DeVos, working for CEO of predatory Trump U, works to prevent predatory loan servers from being exposed by states.. - US Ed Dept. intervenes on behalf of student loan servers, exploiting borrowers, by not turning over business models
I can't stand her
BetsyDeVosED should spend her time doing what she knows- yachting and ...........?
When the Department of Education is protecting exploitative loan servicers over students, the Department of Education is no longer about education but rather the right of companies to take advantage of anyone wanting to learn. It's sickening.
This stupid, criminal woman cannot legally do this...
People of wealth should not be in power of our government.
But of course they are
The party of state's rights and rule of law defiling both.
My headache has a headache.
Because everything this administration does is meant to hurt average Americans and further enrich the wealthy. They want us dumb, in debt or dead.
SHE IS EVIL TRASH
Well yeah;she has never had to worry about living on a budget or has ever had to budget for anything in her life. The only thing she has ever done is try to dismantle the public education system in Detroit and discredit public school teachers BillionaireDaughter BillionaireWife
Seriously?
This whole administration refuses to be governed by the law.
The law and order party is withholding information from law enforcement... again.
Everyone in the individual 1's administration is on the take. Devos isn't satisfied with billions she has and she would rather destroy lives of thousands of people who are struggling with student debt than lose out on millions she is receiving from student debt collectors.
Surprise surprise
erikjhortiz You borrowed for four to eight years to support a life style on a degree that was useless. Now it’s time to pay. You get no pity from me.
erikjhortiz My hope is she requires them to tighten up the loan collateral. 20% of loan in cash and assets.
erikjhortiz Pay your debts
erikjhortiz Why shouldn't the government collect loans given?
erikjhortiz Her family's business
erikjhortiz Imagine being surprised by this.
erikjhortiz I, for one, is not surprised one bit.
erikjhortiz The advocates say the Education Dept. is declining to turn over information to law enforcement in multiple states investigating student loan servicers, some accused of illegally exploiting borrowers. (2/8)
erikjhortiz LOL
This idiot owns 40 yachts. The cream isn’t rising in America anymore, just the 💩.
Rasmussen Pole August 2019: 78% of voters say that what reporters do with political news is promote their agenda. They think they use incidents as props for their agenda rather than seeking to accurately record what happened.
Ultimately, BetsyDeVosED is practicing a form of eugenics.
Love Devos, she is doing awesome job!
⬆️THIS IMBECILE IS OUR SoE⬆️
Girl get ready to get canned.
Who do you think a person like DeVos identifies with? People who make loans or people who need them?
She and her fascist brother Eric should be run out of town on a rail- nasty hypocrites pretending to be Christian
It is very simple America.....if you borrow money, plan on paying it back. Higher education is a personnel choice....the person who made the choice should pay the loan.
This is why she was parachuted into that job. It's all about money and denying educational grants/loans to those that we qualify. Social engineering by keeping the talented but economically challenged back.
Yes. she is doing what she is supposed to do, terrify people from entering college. We're going to have to clean up this mess!
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Criminal, but carrying out the wishes of Trump.
If Lenny from “Of Mice and Men” and Dolores Umbridge from “Harry Potter” could have a child, BetsyDeVosED would be that child’s dimwitted, discount MLM clone.
This woman disgust me
Did anyone really expect something different. Loan Servicers are financial companies who can buy access and get preferential treatment from DeVos. Money still talks and DeVos is as corrupt as any other Trump staff member.
Cruella
“Consumer advocate says government doesn’t care about consumers”.
OF COURSE SCUMBAG REPUBLIKLANS R ALL ABOUT SHOW ME THE FKING MONEY
Swamp the Drain
Hoo nedes an edgacation?
This whole administration is obscenely corrupt and deserve to rot in jail.
Who expected any different from DeVil.
Lock. Her. Up.
This woman is as useless as an ashtray on a motorcycle