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" My investigation found Sallie Mae put student borrowers into expensive subprime loans that it knew were going to fail. "
Lisa Madigan
Going
Investigation
Student
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" Unlike public universities and private, not-for-profit colleges, for-profit schools are owned by revenue-seeking businesses often more intent on boosting their bottom line than educating their students. They use hard-sell tactics to recruit prospective students, and veterans have become particular targets. "
Lisa Madigan
Students
Become
Line
" I've repeatedly seen unscrupulous lenders use every con in the book to charm and lie to homeowners. Lenders actually paid brokers a premium to put people in higher-priced loans with toxic features, such as adjustable rates and prepayment penalties. "
Lisa Madigan
Book
Lie
Con
" I'm very lucky to have the support of my family. "
Lisa Madigan
Support
Family
Very
" Higher education is meant to provide economic opportunity to Americans - not provide unscrupulous companies the opportunity to syphon off billions in federal taxpayer dollars unfairly. "
Lisa Madigan
Education
Opportunity
Higher Education
" If home ownership is the American dream, then foreclosure certainly is the American nightmare. It destroys more than credit. It destroys lives. And its effects are felt beyond the individual family that it devastates. It shakes our entire economy. "
Lisa Madigan
American Dream
Home
Family
" The party on Wall Street never ends - while the rest of us pick up their tab and suffer the hangover. "
Lisa Madigan
Street
Wall
Never
" We've done amazing things for the state. Some of them have had a national impact, but I'm going to be ready for some new challenges, and so I'm not going to seek a fifth term as attorney general. "
Lisa Madigan
Done
Ready
Impact
" Most of our children have access to Internet-accessible technology, yet most of us are actually not paying much attention to what they're doing online. "
Lisa Madigan
Attention
Doing
Children
" A ban on same-sex marriage violates the state Constitution's equal protection clause. "
Lisa Madigan
Ban
Constitution
Protection
" Hard work, careful planning, and realistic financial advice will be required by many to regain solvency. "
Lisa Madigan
Financial
Work
Hard Work
" I've always wanted to be an advocate. "
Lisa Madigan
Always
Wanted
Advocate
" Even if you can afford the price of college, you cannot afford a worthless degree. "
Lisa Madigan
You
Degree
Price
" I've been able to bring billions of dollars back to our state that has so desperately needed it - billions of dollars in relief to homeowners and our communities and our pension systems that desperately need it. "
Lisa Madigan
Bring
Been
Pension
" Demand to know the school's accreditation. Regional accreditation is preferable to national, particularly if you want to transfer credits. Check with the certifying association or potential employer in your field to ensure successful completion of the program will actually qualify you for that job. "
Lisa Madigan
You
Want
Potential
" The Attorney General must identify threats to Illinoisans' financial security and take action to protect people. "
Lisa Madigan
Action
Financial
People
" For many, the loan modification process has been a giant sham. "
Lisa Madigan
Been
Process
Loan
" The creation of a consumer agency, structured similarly to the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, levels the playing field. It gives consumers a powerful advocate at the federal level. "
Lisa Madigan
Powerful
Office
Creation
" It is never too late to correct our mistakes. And if we do not, we risk repeating them. "
Lisa Madigan
Risk
Never Too Late
Mistakes
" There were absolutely circumstances where Sallie Mae was working hand-in-hand with for-profit schools and other schools in offering and putting students into risky expensive subprime loans. "
Lisa Madigan
Students
Where
Circumstances
" It probably can take me anywhere I want to be, but I have to be honest, being attorney general is a great job. "
Lisa Madigan
Take
Want
Great
" Stalking is a crime that can paralyze an otherwise productive person with fear. "
Lisa Madigan
Productive
Crime
Fear
" Navient's actions have led to student borrowers needlessly carrying billions of dollars in debt, and the company must be held accountable. "
Lisa Madigan
Company
Debt
Must
" I've learned never to say never. "
Lisa Madigan
Learned
Say
Never
" I feel strongly that the state would not be well-served by having a governor and speaker of the House from the same family and have never planned to run for governor if that would be the case. With Speaker Madigan planning to continue in office, I will not run for governor. "
Lisa Madigan
Feel
House
Planning
" I often say that paying off your debt is like dieting. There are no miracle cures; it takes discipline and hard work. "
Lisa Madigan
Discipline
Debt
Work
" I went to law school to help people. "
Lisa Madigan
Law School
Law
Help
" Navient/Sallie Mae treated student loan borrowers unfairly from start to finish. "
Lisa Madigan
Treated
Start
Finish
" My husband helps take care of our kids. "
Lisa Madigan
Kids
Husband
Care
" Investigating some of the largest subprime lenders - Wells Fargo, Countrywide, Ameriquest, Household Finance - I've seen how their terrible, toxic loans were closed by any means necessary and eventually packaged, sold as securities, and bet upon until they exploded and decimated our economy. "
Lisa Madigan
Toxic
Terrible
Finance
" I enjoy a good fight, and always have, and really just said to myself, 'Look, at the end of my term, it'll be 16 years as attorney general, and I'm ready for new challenges. I'm ready to use my skills in a different way to continue to help people.' "
Lisa Madigan
Challenges
Myself
Good