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TON (AP) IVspiti' new rug illations and Kdu (ation Depart men! promise*, fraud is still widespread in fed oral student aid programs, con gressional investigators ton ton ded Wed nesda \ n>«V < ited the case ot it mm bankrupt Los Angeles trade n !<<>->: that t nil's ted$58million in federal money, in part for “ghost Students” who allegedh never enrolled "We have an open bank, with no security guard and no tellers.” said Sen Sam Nunn, D-G* Much htame lies with the Kdu i atiuu Department and the inspector general s office. which failed in numerous reviews over several vear. to nut over the abus es at lade A merit an St bools and slop the flow of taxpayer money. Nunn ttaid ' I his is a program trial s run on the honor system." said Alan Kdetman. an attorney for the Sen ati Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations. "And unfortu nately what we have are a lot of (Mirth ipnnts who are not honor able " lade is now under investigation by the justice Department. Nunn said. The company's attorney con firmed the investigation but said the owners deny wrongdo ing They have not been charged. "This school, lilt! all si bools that re< oive these grants, oper ated within a very complex reg ulatory environment," said the firm's .ittnmev. Mary (.ihbons of r Tappan. N Y "They ware work ing on an ongoing basis with all ! hew people The hoois — si x in the Los Angeles area and on*- in Florida di-t lured bankrupt! \ and dieted in March three days after the FBI raided school offices About 4.MM mostly poor, His panic students were taking class es at the time Senate investigators i ontend lade offn ials collet ted federal Fell Grant money for “ghost stu dents'' who either never enrolled in < lasses, or dropped out after registering. Federal prosei utors in Los Angeles did not return phone tails Wednesday, hut California state officials have said they an* investigating whether lade failed to reimburse the federal government when students dropped out The Fell (.rant money has since disappeared, and three of the owners have returned to their In tines m A r$*en! mu s.t-.ii Senate investigator Hdelman A fourth is living in m»s Angulos. I'm us appalled bv what wc'ri' hearing today ns vmi are," David l.nngiintM ker, the Kdiu.nlion I Vpartment's assistant se< retan for |kisls*s tindnrv education. told lawmakers Hut I.unganot ker arguoii his agency has improved its oversight of student aid programs in the last few wars- keeping sus|«*i t v hoots out in the firs! plac e, and doing audits more frequently to kirk out schools that misbehave Nevertheless, i.onganet ker said, protdems keep popping up among for-profit trade schools ! or that reason, the Edu< ation Department will soon propose change* in the way ii deals with Ihoiw schools, he said, In a highly publicized crni k dawn two years ago. Congress rw)uinxl the Kduealion Deport ment to kick out of the student loan program any schools with high numbers of students who defaulted Most were trade schools. But many of those schools just moved into the Pell Grant pro gram, which has fewer safe guards. Nunn said Congress doesn't want to end federal aid to trade school stu denis. Nunn cautioned. Ins ause "some of these schools provide a good education " But he promised a cra< kdown on fraudulent schools lade offered its students train ing in automotive mechanic s. computer software and Knglish as a second language It had si hoola in ■ downtown Los Angeles. Santa Ana. HI Monte, North Hollywood. South Cate, and Oxnard, Calif., and Hialeah. I la Hm only small numbers of stu dents found jobs in those fields after their sc heading. said Senate investigator K Mark Webster He i ontended that the sc hools pro vided inadequate books and equipment and that teachers were poorlv trained tilting what acting Inspector t.eneral John I’ Higgins |r at know lodged were mistakes in his agenc v's investigation of the school, Nunn also raised alarms about proposed cuts in the inspee tor general's budget "Congress is a lot better at cre ating programs than monitoring them." 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