This Is Gonna Kinda Make You Sick
We are never going to have good government until we get money out of politics.
And there’s a reason for that.
Please meet the good folks at ATI Enterprises Inc, including a Mr. Arthur Benjamin among others. They opened schools in Texas, Florida, New Mexico, and Oklahoma. Only problem was – the schools were a scam.
ATI Enterprises Inc. will pay the government $3.7 million to resolve False Claims Act allegations that it falsely certified compliance with federal student aid programs’ eligibility requirements and submitted claims for ineligible students, the Justice Department announced today.
Okay, so there’s a fine involved. However, it appears that nobody is going to jail.
The government further alleged that ATI employees engaged in fraudulent practices to induce students to enroll and maintain their enrollment in the schools. This falsely increased the schools’ enrollment numbers, and consequently, the amount of federal dollars they received at the expense of taxpayers and students, who incurred long-term debt.
So, you can defraud the government and college students and when caught, you can just give some of the money back? You know except for the money you gave politicians.
(Click the little ones to get the big ones and boy howdy theres a mess of them.)
The money made defrauding the government goes to politician pockets, which might explain why no one is going to jail.
Told ya it was gonna make you sick. That’s my job every now and then – just to keep you on your toes.
Sounds like Donald Trump’s educational scam:
1“Trump University”. The state of New York is suing him for fraud, but he won’t go to jail either.
What a joke!
Benjamin Arthur: Addresses in Delray Beach, FL and Sandy, UT.
A real son-of-a-beach! With all the R’s and D’s it’s nice to see he’s an equal opportunity scam artist.
2Anyone who scams the public, defrauds the government or uses bad grammar should go to prison for life…and it should be short and nasty.
Think the Russians have any abandoned Siberian gulags to rent?
3I am against the death penalty.
I must admit, though, that when I read about how China applies the death penalty for economic crimes I do feel just a tiny twinge of envy.
4Wow! You just proved my late husband right! He refused to have anyone in the family sign up with one of these “institutes” that have multiplied like rabbits in the past 20 years or so. He insisted on using only solid, proven, accredited schools that have been around since Moses landed the arc on the mountain. He insisted that anything less, like the institutes, are criminal operations. As for all those crooks who are currently escaping jail time etcetera, don’t worry. Karma has its own time table.
5How can they possibly just pay a fine — and pay a fine that is LESS in any way, shape, or form from the TOTAL AMOUNT taken, plus interest.
I also want to know how long these “institutes” have been doing it. The last Republican I ever voted for (and would again today because he’s a good decent man and would probably come back as a Dem anyway) was Clay Shaw and he wasn’t in office in 2006 (he was voted out by a more conservative Repub around 2000 when I first moved to TX) but his name is on the list. The list may also be a scam — otherwise the people who got the money from the Institute needs to pay it back immediately.
I’m done. You didn’t make me sick, JJ, but I’m so mad right now my blood pressure has to be in the 200s. G’night.
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