For Corinthian Colleges Inc., more than four dozen letters that arrived in federal lawmakers’ offices last month offered critical support: They came from business people who said they had hired graduates of the company’s schools, finding them ready for the workplace.
The letter writers warned the lawmakers about proposed federal regulations that are opposed by Santa Ana-based Corinthian and the rest of the career college industry.
The rules would deny taxpayer-financed student aid to campuses where too many students default on their school debt.
But at least nine of those letters were actually written by Corinthian employees, according to a review by the Register.
Only one of the 52 letters included the name of a business.
The rest were signed by people who included no business title and only an address, many of which were those of homes or apartments.
Read more at The Orange County Register: http://www.ocregister.com/articles/letters-616698-corinthian-employees.html