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Flashback to 10-10-2016

"The main U.S. branch ofLaureate Education, a for-profit education company former President Bill Clinton spent years promoting, is facing an investigation by Minnesota’s state government along with a class-action lawsuit claiming the school scammed students out of thousands of dollars.

Clinton served as the “honorary chancellor” of Laureate International Universities from 2010 to 2015, and traveled around the world promoting Laureate as an innovative, positive force in the world of higher education. Despite the honorary nature of his position, Clinton was paid handsomely, taking home more than $17.5 million from the company in that span.

While Laureate is based in the U.S., a large majority of its operations are outside the country. The major exception is Walden University, an online-only school enrolling roughly 40,000 students in numerous degree programs.

Now, though, the school is under investigation by government regulators in Minnesota, where it is based.

According to NBC News, which first reported on the investigation, officials with the Minnesota Office of Higher Education (MOHE) are investigating a series of complaints from students who claim the school’s marketing is deeply misleading. The office said the number of complaints about Walden had surged in the wake of an August investigative report by NBC, which interviewed several unhappy former Walden students.

Many complaints accuse the school of downplaying how long it takes to complete degree programs, causing students to spend much more time (and money) than they expect getting a degree.

“I want to make sure the proof is in the pudding that their marketing claims match with student outcome,” MOHE official Elizabeth Talbot told NBC.

Along with Minnesota’s investigation, Walden is also being targeted by a class action lawsuit filed in Ohio. The plaintiffs were enrolled in doctoral programs with Walden, and claim the school misrepresented how long it took for students to complete a dissertation, causing students to pile up six figures in debt pursuing degrees they expected to complete in three years at a cost of about $60,000.

“Walden does not act like a university (for-profit or otherwise). Rather, Walden acts like a for-profit corporation,” plaintiff LaTonya Thornhill told Courthouse News Service. Thornhill was motivated to pursue a lawsuit after seeing NBC’s August report, According to NBC.

Sauce: https://dailycaller.com/2016/10/10/clinton-connected-for-profit-school-government-investigation-lawsuit/

2A, article related:

The strange birth of NY’s gun laws

January 16, 2012

"Recent months have seen a former Marine from Indiana, a Tea Party activist from California and a nurse from Tennessee all arrested and charged in New York City for possession of firearms they had legal permits to carry back home. All were “nabbed” when they naively sought to check the weapon with security.

These innocents fell afoul of the nation’s toughest gun laws. But few New Yorkers know how those laws came to be.

The father of New York gun control was Democratic city pol “Big Tim “Sullivan — a state senator and Tammany Hall crook, a criminal overseer of the gangs of New York.

In 1911 — in the wake of a notorious Gramercy Park blueblood murder-suicide — Sullivan sponsored the Sullivan Act, which mandated police-issued licenses for handguns and made it a felony to carry an unlicensed concealed weapon.

This was the heyday of the pre-Prohibition gangs, roving bands of violent toughs who terrorized ethnic neighborhoods and often fought pitched battles with police. In 1903, the Battle of Rivington Street pitted a Jewish gang, the Eastmans, against the Italian Five Pointers. When the cops showed up, the two underworld armies joined forces and blasted away, resulting in three deaths and scores of injuries. The public was clamoring for action against the gangs.

Problem was the gangs worked for Tammany. The Democratic machine used them as shtarkers (sluggers), enforcing discipline at the polls and intimidating the opposition. Gang leaders like Monk Eastman were even employed as informal “sheriffs,” keeping their turf under Tammany control.

The Tammany Tiger needed to rein in the gangs without completely crippling them. Enter Big Tim with the perfect solution: Ostensibly disarm the gangs — and ordinary citizens, too — while still keeping them on the streets.

In fact, he gave the game away during the debate on the bill, which flew through Albany: “I want to make it so the young thugs in my district will get three years for carrying dangerous weapons instead of getting a sentence in the electric chair a year from now.”

Sullivan knew the gangs would flout the law, but appearances were more important than results. Young toughs took to sewing the pockets of their coats shut, so that cops couldn’t plant firearms on them, and many gangsters stashed their weapons inside their girlfriends’ “bird cages” — wire-mesh fashion contraptions around which women would wind their hair.

Ordinary citizens, on the other hand, were disarmed, which solved another problem: Gangsters had been bitterly complaining to Tammany that their victims sometimes shot back at them.

So gang violence didn’t drop under the Sullivan Act — and really took off after the passage of Prohibition in 1920. Spectacular gangland rubouts — like the 1932 machine-gunning of “Mad Dog” Coll in a drugstore phone booth on 23rd Street — became the norm.

Congressional hearings in the 1950s, followed by the feds’ prolonged assault on the Mafia succeeded in tamping down traditional gangland violence, but guns are still easily available to criminals.

Today, the spate of tourist arrests has some politicians scrambling to reassess the laws. Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver says he’ll hold committee hearings to examine enforcement of the law and recommend possible changes.

That’s a good first step. Every state but Illinois has some form of concealed-carry permission — although some, like New York, California and New Jersey, are heavily restricted. Some sort of reciprocity is needed.

Meanwhile, savor the irony of an edict written by a corrupt politician to save his bad guys from the electric chair’s now being used against law-abiding citizens from other states.

And the rest of the story? Big Tim was already suffering from tertiary syphilis when he wrote his law. He went mad soon thereafter and was sent to a sanitarium in 1912. He eventually escaped. His severed body was found on railroad tracks in The Bronx in August 1913.

The dedicated lifelong “public servant” left behind an estate valued at more than $2 million."

Sauce: https://nypost.com/2012/01/16/the-strange-birth-of-nys-gun-laws/

*2 Million dollars of 1913 valuation is $59,049,696.97 today. calc provided. Estimates of his wealth at death go as high a as 2.5 million, or $73,812,121.21 in today's dollars.

Sullivan was a role model for the Democrats of today. Corruption, violence, graft, raw power. (think Gangs of New York) and died completely insane from Tertiary syphilis. 25,000 went to his funeral, possibly to make sure the dirty old bastard was really dead..

>>16498124

Anon has concealed carry here, no permissions required. I needs to go to the range.