Dade Medical College boss surrenders to campaign finance charge
One more ReTHUG scumbag
Dade Medical College owner Ernesto Perez turned himself in to authorities on Tuesday, after being hit with new criminal charges that he illegally bundled campaign contributions to politicians.
Politicians who received the improper campaign checks included Republican state senate candidate John Couriel, Miami-Dade County Commissioner Juan Zapata, Hialeah Gardens Mayor Yioset De La Cruz, and Miami Lakes Vice Mayor Manny Cid.
A recent Miami Herald investigation, Higher-Ed Hustle, highlighted how Florida’s for-profit colleges have used political connections to fuel their growth. The Herald series also included complaints from Dade Medical students who said the school’s health career training was so poor that it put them at risk of hurting patients after they graduated. Many graduated of the school struggled to get licensed at all. In 2014, only 13 percent of graduates at the Hollywood campus passed the nursing license exam. At the Miami campus, 44 percent passed.
The new criminal allegations are only the latest legal trouble for Perez, who for two years has been battling separate charges of perjury, a misdemeanor, and providing false information through a sworn statement, which is a third-degree felony.
In those charges, Perez is accused of repeatedly failing to disclose prior criminal arrests and/or convictions when filling out government forms. Perez has a 1990 arrest for second-degree sexual assault of a child, and a 2002 arrest for aggravated battery. The earlier crime, which occurred while Perez was in a rock band touring in Wisconsin, involved a 15-year-old fan. Perez pleaded no contest to misdemeanor charges of battery and exposing his genitals to a child. He spent six months in jail.
Read more here: http://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/education/article42643344.html#storylink=cpy
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These scumbags don't give a damn if they turn out quacks or destroy education - they are enriching themselves with the help of politicians.
