I Have Grifted My Way from the AEI to ALEC

Lee Fang’s story for The Intercept about how Corinthian Colleges kept swindling students is first-rate journalism. A teaser:

The spectacular crash of Corinthian Colleges after years of systematically deceiving thousands of students into enrolling into low-quality, high-cost education programs has once again raised questions about how the for-profit college industry staved off stronger rules governing the $1.4 billion per year in federal loans that helped keep Corinthian afloat.

Some hints emerged today in the giant chain’s filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in Delaware. It shows that Corinthian made secret payments to an array of political consultants, think tanks and political dark money groups.

But read the whole etc. And, yes, Corinthian students should have their loans forgiven.