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Saturday, April 21, 2007

The University Loan Scandal
Continues Apace...


...or, at Pace, whose

former director of financial aid ... persuaded the school to award major contracts to student loan giant Sallie Mae while she successfully lobbied the company to hire her, the New York attorney general's office said yesterday.

The official, Desiree Cilmi, was negotiating for a job with the Reston lender in 2004 as she urged the university to sell graduate student loans to Sallie Mae and hire the company to operate a call center, aides to Attorney General Andrew M. Cuomo said. The lender got both contracts and Cilmi left soon after to work at Sallie Mae. ... Pace entered into a contract with Sallie Mae from 2004 to 2007 for the lender to operate a call center where company employees answered: "Pace University Financial Aid Office."