Legal Industry News
January 18, 2012
Westwood College’s Criminal Justice Program in Illinois under Fire for Deceptive Marketing
Illinois Attorney General Attorney General Lisa Madigan today filed a lawsuit against the national, for-profit college Westwood for engaging in deceptive practices that left Chicago area students with up to $70,000 each in debt for degrees that failed to qualify them for careers in criminal justice.
Today’s lawsuit is the Illinois Attorney General’s latest effort to crack down on fraudulent and deceptive practices in the for-profit college industry. In 2011, the Office filed a complaint in a whistleblower suit against Education Management Corporation and the Illinois Institutes of Art in Chicago and Schaumburg for allegedly incentivizing admissions recruiters based on enrollment…
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