If you’re looking to get students to enroll in your college, maybe you should take a page out of FastTrain College’s book, a prestigious university that lured in prospective freshmen with the help of some skilled strippers. Note: This is horrible advice.
Alejandro Amor, a 56-year-old Floridian and former head of for-profit school FastTrain College, is heading to Miami federal court today after allegedly defrauding the government out of $6.5 million in student loans.
FastTrain operated seven campuses across Florida and enrolled nearly 1,300 students who didn’t even graduate from high school.
Amor is accused of illegally enrolling the students and forcing students to lie on financial aid applications in order to get loans. Smart!
According to the NY Post,
For-profit colleges — which typically get 90 percent of their revenue from federal student loan programs — have been rocked by scandal in recent years. Even the biggest ones, like University of Phoenix, have been accused of serious violations and paid hefty fines.
Three small players have faced criminal charges, and each settled long before trial. Amor is the first to go to trial. He faces up to five years of imprisonment.
Former FastTrain College employee Jose W. Gonzalez pleaded guilty and is now working with authorities, saying Amor instructed him to “hire the sluttiest girls he could find” and “some hot mommas” from various local strip clubs to work as admission representatives.
Good marketing tactic, Amor!
[H/T: NY Post]
