Florida College Hired Strippers to Lure Students

A now defunct for-profit college in Miami, Fla., has been accused of illegally obtaining millions of federal dollars by using exotic dancers as admission officers.

According to NBC News, the Florida Attorney General and the U.S. Attorney in Miami announced Wednesday that they were going to join an ongoing civil suit against FastTrain College and its former CEO, 56-year-old Alejandro Amor.   

Apart from using stripper recruiters, the federal lawsuit filed in Miami accused the college of falsifying high school diplomas and FAFSA and Pell Grant paperwork, and also asking the students to lie on financial forms so as to help the institution earn as much as $6 million federal money, Jezebel reports.

The complaint states that at least from January 2009 through June 2012, when the college closed, Amor and the company deceived the U.S. Department of Education.

Amor, who faces pending charges of conspiracy and theft of government money, was criminally indicted in October.

He used to live in a waterfront home in Coral Gables that is worth $2 million and also owned a yacht and private plane when he was running the company that indulged in the fraudulent activities.

Amor's company allegedly used to inform students that they could acquire high school diplomas by just taking a FastTrain-provided exam, and then used to give them fake diploma certificates from "Cornerstone Christian Academy."

At its peak, FastTrain operated seven campuses across Florida - Miami-Dade, Broward, Hillsborough, Pinellas and Duval counties.

According to an ongoing civil lawsuit, on at least one of its seven campuses, FastTrain College "purposely hired attractive women and sometimes exotic dancers and encouraged them to dress provocatively while they recruited young men in neighborhoods to attend FastTrain."