Education Secretary Betsy DeVos is unlikely to go to jail, but the internet might have you think otherwise.
The furor online stems from a case involving the now-defunct Corinthian College, a for-profit college that closed in 2015. The U.S. Department of Education had been ordered to stop collecting on the federal loans of students who attended the school. But the departmentdisclosed it had continued to garnish wages and seize tax returns of hundreds of borrowers. Others had erroneously paid money toward the loans when they didn’t have to.
The judge’s order is part of a lawsuit by former students at Corinthian College, who are suing the department with the hope of discharging their student loans.
Sallie Kim, a federal magistrate judge in California, admonished the department on Monday during a hearing. Among her remarks, she said: “I am not sending anyone to jail yet, but it’s good to know that I have that ability.