One of Vice President Mike Pences closest allies advised a cadre of student debt relief companies some of which are facing an unprecedented nationwide crackdown for preying on vulnerable borrowers on how to lobby Washington and fend off regulators.
Marty Obst, a longtime adviser to Pence and operative closely aligned with Trumps outside political operation, was a marquee speaker at an industry conference last week, where student debt relief companies gathered in Las Vegas to learn how to gird themselves against investigations, defend class-action lawsuits, and reach millennials through mass text-messaging campaigns, according to the conference agenda.
Obst’s address was to the annual meeting of the Association for Stud…
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