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Company: Ashford University and Zovio, Inc.
Penalty: $21,442,329
Year: 2022
Date: March 7, 2022
Offense Group: consumer-protection-related offenses
Primary Offense: consumer protection violation
Violation Description: Ashford University, an online, for-profit school, and its parent company Zovio, Inc. (formerly Bridgepoint Education) were ordered to pay $22.37 million in judgment of charges they gave student false or misleading information on career outcomes, cost and financial aid, pace of degree programs, and transfer credits, in order to persuade them to enroll at Ashford. An appeals court reduced the amount to $21.4 million: (click here)
Level of Government: state
Action Type: agency action
Agency: California Attorney General
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
Facility State: California
Source of Data: (click here)
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Current parent company note: Parent-subsidiary relationship is current as of the most recent revision listed in the Update Log.