Second Law Prof Whistleblower Suit Against InfiLaw Unsealed
Former professors at two of InfiLaw's for-profit law schools have filed whistleblower suits claiming student loan fraud, and lawyers say there could be more such suits pending under seal.
April 04, 2018 at 02:25 PM
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A newly unsealed whistleblower lawsuit filed by two former professors at Arizona Summit Law School alleges that the school and its owner, InfiLaw Corp., violated federal student loan rules in order to collect more than $533 million in government-backed financial aid from 2012 to 2015.
The qui tam suit, which the plaintiffs voluntarily dismissed in February and the court unsealed March 26, is the second whistleblower suit brought by faculty from an InfiLaw school to be made public. Another case focusing on InfiLaw's now defunct Charlotte School of Law makes similar claims to the Arizona suit, and is still pending. Arizona Summit and InfiLaw's Florida Coastal School of Law are for-profit institutions, as was Charlotte.
“I think we'll see more cases involving these issues and these defendants,” said attorney Jesse Hoyer of Florida firm James Hoyer, who represented plaintiffs Celia Rumann and Michael O'Connor in the terminated Arizona Summit case. “More and more insiders are starting to realize what's going on in these schools. I doubt we're the only two complaints out there.”
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