By Christine Hsu
California Attorney General Kamala Harris filed a lawsuit yesterday against Santa Ana-based Corinthian Colleges, Inc. (CCi) and its subsidiaries Everest, Heald and WyoTech colleges for false and predatory advertising, securities fraud and intentional misrepresentations to students.
Harris said the colleges targeted low-income people, minorities and veterans in the state to enroll as students.
Harris alleged that Corinthian promised students, “a hundred percent guarantee of job placement. Our investigation, however, found that this was false information and in some programs, not one single student obtained a job coming out of that program.”
Kent Jenkins, a spokesman for Corinthian, issued the following statement: “We are committed to regulatory compliance and have robust processes in place to correctly record and disclose the job placement information we receive from our graduates and their employers.”