Federal Judge Invites Scammed Students to Propose Additional Punishments for Betsy DeVos

[CatWoman]

The courts have had it up to here with Department of Education (DOE) Secretary Betsy DeVos and her agency’s repeat—and apparently ongoing—violation of court orders that require her to stop milking scammed college students for student loan repayments. And now, it’s the students’ turn to potentially bring some pain.

In a terse and harsh two-page filing on Tuesday, U.S. Magistrate Judge Sallie Kim called out DeVos for her unlawful efforts to extract those payments from the student victims—who are plaintiffs in a class action lawsuit against the DOE over those illegal actions taken to force and coerce federal remuneration.

Judge Kim noted:

The compliance reports filed by [DeVos and the DOE] have introduced new material facts that are directly relevant to the amount of sanctions appropriate to compensate for [DeVos and the DOE’s] flagrant and continuing violation of the preliminary injunction.

That injunction was issued in May 2018 and barred DeVos from collecting student loan debt payments from a huge class of borrowers who were scammed by for-profit scammers Corinthian Colleges. DeVos and the DOE were initially dinged by the court–and DeVos herself was held in contempt–after admittedly violating that court order by forcing some 16,000 former students to pay back their loans.


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[gratuitous]

1. Additional punishments? How about lock her up?

The Department's continued flouting of the judge's orders isn't happening by accident.

[grumpyduck]

2. Wahooo!!!

Those assholes are accountable for their actions and have gotten away with a lot of bullshit over the years.

Go get her!!!!!!!

[hlthe2b]

3. Public stocks with the crowd given rotten tomatoes

followed by at least a year in a REAL jail.

[lark]

4. How about all 16,000 students who repaid illegal loans get all their money back + interest!

Then any DeVos company is disqualified from ever getting federal funding - hurt her charter school business badly

[aggiesal]

14. Money back plus ...

free 4 year education from a public university of their choice when meeting entrance qualifications.
And DeVos company disqualification from federal funding.

[cp]

17. Yes

Particularly including her company disqualified from federal funding

[Midnightwalk]

5. 16000 counts of contempt with 30 days per

But that’s probably not a legally valid way of counting contempt.

There is a very strange reticence to locking up rich people. Lock her up until her department complies with the judge’s order. She wouldn’t last a day.

Rich people have extremely pampered lives that most people can’t fathom. Being deprived of liberty is one thing but the loss of status and power really hurts. Outside they can order anyone they come in contact with around. Locked up everyone tells them what to do.

We don’t need imaginative punishments. We just have to treat rich criminals no differently than poor criminals. That’s also the best way to get prison reforms.

[AtheistCrusader]

8. Well, it's terribly inconvenient for Rich people.

Jails are dirty and all that.

[aggiesal]

15. It's called AFFLUENTZA n/t

[MurrayDelph]

6. How about asset forfeiture?

Start taking away some of her several yachts anchored in places around America, which are registered in foreign countries to reduce tax liability.

[Bev54]

12. Have her personally pay for the loans through asset forfeiture along with punitive damages

to the students, including those who paid the loans.

[llmart]

7. They need to lock her up already.

[PatrickforO]

9. DeVos is undoubtedly the WORST SoE this nation has ever had.

She is utterly clueless.

The thing I've always wondered is how some of these people can dress themselves they seems so stupid. Yet, somehow she became a billionaire. A parasite.

[47of74]

10. life imprisonments plus one million years

[Lonestarblue]

11. It's hard to imagine that any administration could be worse than this one.

From Trump on down, everyone in his administration is driven by personal corruption and doing everything they can to screw citizens out of their last dollars. I hope the judge sends DeVos to jail for a few months—no cash bail allowed.

[TruckFump]

13. LOCK HER UP!!!!

Seems justified for contempt of a court order.

[Initech]

24. How about SEIZE HER ASSETS!!!!

That is a punishment that billionaire grifters like DeVos will really understand!

[TruckFump]

25. IMO, do both!!!! EOM

[drmeow]

27. THIS!!!

And give at least some of them to the scammed students. Also lock her up.

[11 Bravo]

16. Caning?

[Pepsidog]

19. That's a pleasant thought.

[Faux pas]

18. The rich

are above the law you know.

[steventh]

20. It's good to see the court having Devos take responsibility for her misconduct.

I for one can really use some good news right about now. And this is probably the best I could hope for.

[Sugar Smack]

21. She has to work at a Popeye's for 5 years (additional to imprisonment)

She can get called in for turnaround shifts, jump when there's a customer, get shit from customers, co-workers and employers. Get paid minimum wage. Wash the same outfit over and over. Clean up after everybody. Come home, hair smelling like chicken fat & too tired to take a shower.

If I'd ever been ripped off by herself personally, this sounds like something I'd recommend.

[argyl]

22. She's used the DOE like some loansharking outfit. This is exponentially worse than Trump U.

All the misery she's caused. Almost 50,000 young people extorted by this harpy. And for now they may increase a
$100,000 fine that the DOE will be paying.

One of the first orders of business for a Democratically appointed Attorney General in 2021 should be locking up this heartless creature for the rest of her life.

The breadth of this woman's cruelty and greed just staggers me.

[jmowreader]

23. Times like these call for creative measures

I suggest a three part punishment.

First, RICO her and her Amway-heir husband into the poorhouse. If she’s not living in a van down by the river when all is said and done, try harder.

Next, force her to attend (at full fare) a for-profit college.

Finally, make her live in San Francisco and drive for a weed delivery service while trying to pay off her loans.

[Kid Berwyn]

26. SCAMWAY Betsy

The Pyramid Scheme is all she knows.