WOULD U BUY A USED TECH SCHOOL FROM THIS OP 10.33 GUY?

By Juan Montoya
Mike Hernandez III and Carlos Marin's OP 10.33's  Education Initiative Director is one Carlos (Carli) Strength, also of the Dallas-Ft. Worth area.
OP 10.33 makes much of its technically-oriented trade school which will prepare students with the needed skills to enter and be competitive in the global market.
The linchpin to this endeavor is Strength, who claims he "led and managed all business operations for $300 million educational service system, spanning 23 campuses from Texas to Florida." He left that the ATI gig in Nov. 2011 for no apparent reason.
 In fact, he was so "successful" at his educational system that it caught the notice of the U.S. Dept. of Justice which in August 2012 filed a complaint against the Dallas-area for-profit chain schools under the False Claims Violations.

The government’s complaint alleges that from 2007 through 2010 (when "Carli" was one of its CEOs), at three campuses in Dallas and North Richland Hills, Texas, ATI Enterprises knowingly misrepresented its job placement statistics to the Texas Workforce Commission in order to maintain its state licensure, and therefore its eligibility for federal financial aid under Title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended. On Aug. 9, 2011, the Texas Workforce Commission revoked licenses for several of ATI’s programs at the three campuses after a third party audit of ATI’s reported placement statistics.
The government intervened and filed a complaint against  ATI Enterprises Inc. based in North Richland, Texas, which does business as ATI Technical Training Center, ATI Career Training Center and ATI Career Training, operates career college campuses in Texas, Florida, Oklahoma and New Mexico.
"The government’s complaint alleges that from 2007 through 2010, at three campuses in Dallas and North Richland Hills, Texas, ATI Enterprises knowingly misrepresented its job placement statistics to the Texas Workforce Commission in order to maintain its state licensure, and therefore its eligibility for federal financial aid under Title IV of the Higher Education Act of 1965, as amended. On Aug. 9, 2011, the Texas Workforce Commission revoked licenses for several of ATI’s programs at the three campuses after a third party audit of ATI’s reported placement statistics.
Furthermore, the complaint alleged that ATI employees at the three campuses knowingly enrolled students who were ineligible because they did not have high school diplomas or recognized equivalents; falsified high school diplomas, including five Dallas Independent School District diplomas for students who later defaulted on their federal student loans; fraudulently kept students enrolled even though they should have been dropped because they had poor grades or attendance; and made knowing misrepresentations to students about their future employability.
The alleged misrepresentations included telling students that a criminal record would not prevent them from getting jobs in their fields of study, quoting higher salaries than the students would be likely to earn and reporting inflated job placement statistics both to the students and the Texas Workforce Commission. The complaint alleges that the executive directors at each campus, as well as various ATI corporate officers, including the chief operating officer, chief executive officer, executive vice president of operations, national director of career services, regional director of education, regional director of career placements and vice president of recruitment were aware of and in some cases encouraged the alleged conduct.
The complaint further alleged that ATI engaged in these practices in order to induce students to enroll and thereby increase the school’s receipt of federal dollars at the expense of students, who incurred long-term debt, and the taxpayers."
Is it any wonder that Carli left "for unknown reasons" and alighted here to dispense his brand of knowledge under the auspices of Hernandez's OP 10.33?
And are we going to let his bunch of carpetbaggers take over the Port of Brownsville with Ede River and Raul Villanueva just after a record cargo year under Tito Lopez and Ralph Cowen?