Paul Aker got a rude awakening when U.S. Marshals arrested him last week. Aker owed $1,500 in student loans and he had been summoned to appear in court. When he failed to show up, he was arrested.
Here & Now‘s Robin Young speaks with student loan expert Mark Kantrowitz, who is publisher of the scholarship website Cappex.com, about this case and why the U.S. Marshals were called.
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In this April 28, 2015 file photo, students wait outside Everest College in Industry, Calif., hoping to get their transcriptions and information on loan forgiveness and transferring credits to other schools. Almost 12,000 students are asking the federal government to discharge their college loan debt, asserting that their school either closed or lied to them about job prospects, according to government data released Thursday. The figure represents an unprecedented spike in what's called a "borrower's defense" claim following the collapse of Corinthian Colleges, a for-profit college chain that had become a symbol of fraud in the world of higher education. Under higher education law, students who believe they were victims of fraud can apply to have their loans discharged. (Christine Armario/AP Photo)
