Federal Judge Holds DeVos in Contempt in Student Loan Case, Slaps Education Department With Fine
A federal judge on Thursday held Education Secretary Betsy DeVos in contempt for violating an order to stop collecting loan payments from former Corinthian Colleges students, according to a Washington Post report.
The Post‘s Danielle Douglas-Gabriel explains:
“Magistrate Judge Sallie Kim of the U.S. District Court in San Francisco slapped the Education Department with a $100,000 fine for violating a preliminary injunction. Money from the fine will be used to compensate the 16,000 people harmed by the federal agency’s actions. Some former students of the defunct for-profit college had their paychecks garnished. Others had their tax refunds seized by the federal government.”
Kim wrote that the defendants violated the preliminary injunction and those violations harmed borrowers.
