The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau filed a lawsuit Wednesday against ITT Educational Services Inc., operator of the for-profit college chain ITT Technical Institute, for what it calls “predatory lending.”

“Simply to enhance its financial statements and appearances to investors, ITT sacrificed its students’ futures by saddling them with debt on which it knew they would likely default,” the agency stated in its complaint, filed in federal court in Indianapolis.

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