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PaulG on his failing scams (twitter.com)
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Context: https://www.consumerfinance.gov/about-us/newsroom/cfpb-takes-action-against-coding-boot-camp-bloomtech-and-ceo-austen-allred-for-deceiving-students-and-hiding-loan-costs/

Surely the CFPB has ulterior motives when they set their sights on this "school" whose Wikipedia page is 2/3 controversies: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloom_Institute_of_Technology

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[–] gerikson@awful.systems 15 points 4 months ago

"Are the companies I fund just scams and frauds? No, it is the regulators who are wrong."