Over the past several years, a number of colleges and universities have faced significant fines, penalties, and liabilities for unlawfully inducing students into enrolling using falsified or exaggerated graduation and employment data or by paying recruiters by the enrollee. For instance, several U.S. law schools were named in a recent lawsuit alleging employment and [...]
Over the past several years, there have been several lawsuits and allegations made involving for-profit universities essentially swindling unsuspecting college students out of their tuition money in exchange for a sub-par education that does not meet general academic standards. For instance, several claims have been made about Tier 4 law schools taking thousands of [...]
Let’s face it: whistleblowers do not embark on the qui tam lawsuit labyrinth expecting the experience to be without conflict. Earlier this summer, a former employee of ITT Educational Services, Inc. commenced a lawsuit against the for-profit nationwide university under the qui tam provisions of the False Claims Act in response to her decade-long exposure [...]
