Betsy DeVos Sued Again For Violating CARES Act & Nearly 50 Senators Implicated In Insider Trading

Via America’s Lawyer: Education Secretary Betsy DeVos sued for seizing wages from student loan borrowers, violating provisions of the federal Coronavirus relief bill. Mike Papantonio and Farron Cousins discuss. Then, legal journalist Mollye Barrows joins Mike Papantonio to expose the 27 Democratic and 21 Republican senators for raking in millions in stock sell-offs during the pandemic.

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Betsy DeVos and her department of education are being sued again for violating the law by collecting on student loans. These are loans that she's been told that she cannot collect, but that hasn't stopped her. Joining me to talk about this is Farron Cousins, editor of the trial lawyer magazine. What's not, what memo isn't she reading? I mean, the law is very clear. I mean, it came under the CARES act, right?

Right.

This special law called the CARES act and the CARES act said while this pandemic is working its way through, what?

All you have to do, Betsy, is just not collect on these defaulted student, or delinquent student loans. Just don't take the money. That's all you have to do for just right now.

It actually prohibits the, the act itself prohibits her from doing this.

Right and she came out on, I think it was March 25th of this year and said, okay, my department is not, we're not going to garnish wages. We're not going to collect on these delinquent debts. We will not do any of this. We will 100% comply with the law and then fast forward a month later, she's still garnishing wages, taking money from people who are struggling right now. So they have been forced to file a lawsuit to get the education department to stop doing this.

Okay, I hear the defense. The defense is, well, it's a big bureaucracy. People didn't get the message, but this isn't the first time. This is, they've already been put on notice that DeVos is an idiot.

Right.

Okay. So idiot woman ignores all that. Right? And she knows that the act itself, all you gotta do is read the act. And when you read the act, it says no collection up until September 30th of 2020. Right?

Right. And, you know, you brought up a really great point there. You know, when you're looking at any kind of criminal prosecution, you, you try to establish that pattern of behavior. So all of her defenses right now are one, it's a big bureaucracy. It's taken a long time. Number two, we're trying to contact all of these debt collection agencies that we've contracted and oh gosh, they just can't seem to get it done. But then you look at her history, she has done this repeatedly in spite of being held in contempt of court one time. In spite of being sued. She did it with the students from Corinthian college, still garnished their wages, which had been ordered by two different courts to not do it.

Well, I mean, is she just not there? I mean, really, I'm amazed at this. A 10th grader could read this act and say, Betsy, you can't do that. But 285,000 people in the US are now subject to this problem. Right?

Right. And the department of education very easily could go through their databases. They know who they've contracted to collect which student loans. It's a matter of emails or phone calls. They have the capabilities they're choosing to not do it.

The coronavirus pandemic has left millions of Americans financially devastated, leaving them to look towards hopefully lawmakers for relief.

Aw.

But, but reports show that senators have been raking in huge profits from trading stocks. Ah, this is an ugly story insider trade.

So much money and they just wanted it.

They just want all the money. So, so, okay. Lay it out for us. How does it happen? They have this information. We thought that it was only a couple, right? What is it, 27 Dem.

They're all like, it was okay. It wasn't really nonpublic information.

It was 27 Democrats, 21 repub, something like that.

Yes.

21 Republicans.

27 Democrats, 21 Republicans, one independent, sadly.

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