Nebraska Official Defends Nelnet

Nebraska's attorney general, Jon Bruning, attacked his counterpart in New York last week over his investigation of Nelnet, a Lincoln-based student-loan company.

In an interview with the Omaha World-Herald, Mr. Bruning called Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo's investigation of Nelnet and other student-loan companies "ridiculous" and "political."

Mr. Bruning has himself come under fire in connection with Nelnet. Higher Ed Watch, a blog run by the New America Foundation, has

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