Colleen Nevin has been a contributor to liberal candidates and groups, including:
Biden for President – 3/1/20 - $100
Biden for President – 9/19/20 - $50
Jon Ossoff for Senate – 10/25/20 - $25
Jon Ossoff for Senate – 10/29/20 - $25
John Ossoff supported student loan forgiveness
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Doug Jones for Senate – 10/21/20 - $25
Senate Majority PAC – 10/8/20 - $100
Flip the Senate PAC – 9/24/20 - $100
Montanans for Bullock – 9/13/20 - $25
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As OpenSecrets notes, "Only a tiny fraction of Americans actually give campaign contributions to political candidates, parties or PACs. Just 0.97% of the United States population contributed more than two hundred dollars to federal candidates, PACs, parties, and outside groups [last cycle]" This is the reason campaign contributions are such an instructive tool in analyzing civil servants, because only the most avid partisans - less than one percent - write a check to a candidate.
January 2022 – Present – FSA - Deputy Chief Enforcement Officer
February 2021 – January 2022 – FSA – Director, Partner Enforcement and Consumer Protection
October 2016 – February 2021 – FSA – Director of Borrower Defense
2013 - October 2016 - Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office – Assistant Attorney General
2003 – 2005 - Cook County, Illinois – Assistant State Attorney
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During her tenure at the aggressively left wing Massachusetts Attorney General's Office as an assistant attorney general, Colleen Nevin dedicated much of her efforts to targeting career colleges, which are crucial for providing educational choice and serving underserved populations. These institutions offer education, including online programs, to individuals who might otherwise not have access to higher learning opportunities. Nevin’s actions represent a direct assault on educational freedom.
“The director of borrower defense at the Education Department is Colleen Nevin, who joined the agency during the waning months of the Obama administration. Ms. Nevin is a former assistant attorney general in Massachusetts, where the attorney general’s office has worked aggressively to punish for-profit colleges that engage in dishonest tactics. The office, for example, sued Corinthian Colleges in 2014. Since then, the Massachusetts attorney general has been active in trying to secure loan forgiveness for defrauded students from Corinthian and other colleges.
Approving a loan-forgiveness claim, however, is not something that Ms. Nevin can do on her own. David A. Bergeron, a staff member in the Education Department under President Barack Obama, said that borrower-defense claims need to be signed off by various people, including James Manning, acting under secretary of education, the department’s Office of General Counsel, and the White House Office of Management and Budget.”
Nevin was a partisan hire during the Obama administration and was able to stick around around during the first Trump administration.
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