Former ITT Student Sues Navient For Student Loan Forgiveness
Article/Op-Ed in Forbes
Wikimedia Commons/Dwight Burdette
Sept. 10, 2020
Wesley Whistle wrote an article in Forbes about a lawsuit filed by a former ITT student that alleges Navient, the student loan servicer, should forgive private student loans from the defunct school.
Today, a new lawsuit was filed against Navient, the student loan servicer formerly known as Sallie Mae.
The suit was filed by the Project on Predatory Student Lending at Harvard Law School on behalf of Jorge and Alicia Villalba. Jorge Villalba is a former student at the now-defunct ITT who borrowed more than $50,000 in federal student loans to attend the school. On top of that, Jorge also took on more than $43,000 in private student loans, some of which his mother, Alicia, co-signed.
Read the full article here.