Comments on: FBI Raid Targets For-Profit School in Florida: Was This Necessary? http://crimeinthesuites.com/fbi-raid-targets-for-profit-school-in-florida-was-this-necessary/ An Analysis of Current Issues in White Collar Defense Sun, 24 Jun 2012 03:09:48 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 By: Anonymous http://crimeinthesuites.com/fbi-raid-targets-for-profit-school-in-florida-was-this-necessary/comment-page-1/#comment-2432 Anonymous Mon, 18 Jun 2012 22:10:04 +0000 http://crimeinthesuites.com/?p=946#comment-2432 As someone that was present at the time of the raid the entire "show" was designed to put the small college out of business. Students and staff were subjected to pat-down searches, police dogs conducting person to person searches and agents with guns in the fire position. In one campus students were not allowed to disembark from the school bus for over two hours. Employees caught inside the premises were not allowed to contact lawyers or family members for over two hours. Some employees were threatened that they would be arrested in front on their children if they did not cooperate with the investigation. In two campuses the feds had call the media and the media was sitting in the parking lot waiting for the agents to arrive. In one campus the feds did not product a copy of the search warrant until 5:00 PM. To make matters worse agents showed up at student homes in the late hours and interrogated. Over 600 students were subjected to this trauma. The feds could have easily executed the warrants on a Friday when students were not present. As someone that was present at the time of the raid the entire “show” was designed to put the small college out of business. Students and staff were subjected to pat-down searches, police dogs conducting person to person searches and agents with guns in the fire position. In one campus students were not allowed to disembark from the school bus for over two hours. Employees caught inside the premises were not allowed to contact lawyers or family members for over two hours. Some employees were threatened that they would be arrested in front on their children if they did not cooperate with the investigation.

In two campuses the feds had call the media and the media was sitting in the parking lot waiting for the agents to arrive. In one campus the feds did not product a copy of the search warrant until 5:00 PM.

To make matters worse agents showed up at student homes in the late hours and interrogated. Over 600 students were subjected to this trauma. The feds could have easily executed the warrants on a Friday when students were not present.

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