WASHINGTON — Vice President Kamala Harris’ decade-long “journey for justice” on behalf of Corinthian Colleges students will soon come to a close as the Biden administration promises to relieve borrowers of their remaining federal student loans.
Harris investigated and sued the for-profit university conglomerate when she was California’s attorney general. Her 2013 lawsuit forced Corinthian to close its schools and kick-started probes that led the United States Department of Education to cancel about $5.8 billion in loan debt for 560,000 borrowers.
Harris, California’s attorney general from 2011 to 2017, investigated Corinthian over their recruitment methods. She sued the company and its subsidiaries — such as Heald College, Everest College and WyoTech — for “predatory” advertising practices that lured vulnerable students with inaccurate information around job placement rates, programs and transfer credits.
