COLLEGE-LENDER CONTROVERSY

Lenders Pulled $3.5-Billion Through a Loophole

Nonprofits led the way as student-loan companies collected vast federal subsidies

By PAUL BASKEN

Washington

Last September an Education Department audit found that the for-profit lender Nelnet improperly kept some $300-million in government student-loan subsidies through a loophole in...

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