California Attorney General Rob Bonta said the leader of a suspected student loan debt relief scam was arrested after allegedly defrauding more than 19,000 people in California and across the country.
The alleged scam was “one of the nation’s largest” of its kind, Bonta’s office said in a Tuesday news release. The suspected leader of the scheme worked with six other individuals to steal more than $6,130,000 from thousands of student loan borrowers between 2017 and 2020, according to Bonta’s office.
“Our students worked hard to achieve their college dreams, but for some their dreams have become horrific nightmares,” Bonta said during a Tuesday news conference, The Los Angeles Times reported. “They were swindled; they were scammed.”
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The suspected scam leader was identified as Angela Mirabella in an indictment shared by Bonta’s office. A grand jury indicted Mirabella and six others in connection with the alleged scam earlier this month.
Mirabella owned businesses specializing in third-party debt relief in Southern California that “employed managers and sales agents to operate multiple call centers,” according to Bonta’s office. Those call centers allegedly reached…
