Greetings!  I have a loan through SLM for a school
that closed before I even took one class.  SLM doesn't
seem to want to help me.  In an effort to help me out
with my situation, I've contacted a few of my state
and city officials including Ohio Governor Bob Taft,
Ohio Senator Mike DeWine, Senator David Goodman,
Senator Geroge Voinovich, Ohio Attorney General Jim
Petro, city attorney Richard C Pfeiffer, the Federal
Department of Education, a private attorney, and WBNS
10TV consumer investigative reports division. 
Information has begun to slowly trickle in from these
elected Officials.  

It's been a while since I made a payment.  It's not
that I don't want to make a payment.  I know SLM has
discharged other loans to students at other schools
that have closed down.  Schools like Ameritrain for
example.  I'm in the exact same boat and thus deserve
a loan discharge.

It's much like if you went to a car dealer and
purchased the car of your dreams.  The dealer gives
you the shiny new keys and says come back tomorrow and
you can drive her home.  You go back the next day and
all that's left is an abandoned car lot.  What do you
do?  Where do you go?  I went to the car lot... I got
the keys.. but the only thing that was taken for a
ride is me.

I hope that with the help of the abovementioned
individuals, I can have my loan discharged completely.
 WBNS 10TV would like me to call them back to discuss
my story.  I'm waiting until I have more developments.
 I would feel victorious just making the news-watching
public aware that trying to make yourself a better
person both professionally and personally through
expanding your education and result in a nighmare
through no fault of their own.  Instead of becomming
more of an asset to their community they can have
their dreams of a brighter future smashed to pieces by
ruined credit from a school operated by criminals who
will only take their money and run.

What can I do to ease this process of loan discharge? 
Calling me for payment and then hanging up on me when
I try to explain my story is not good business when
all I want is someone to listen to me and try to help
me out.

The only other thing that I've done so far is fill out
a Loan Discharge Application that I download from the
Federal Department of Education website (form number
1845-0015) and faxed it in (with attention to K.
Wallace.  She's the one who hung up on me) a few times
to make sure the integrity of the document was not
compromised by electronic transmission.  

Thanks for listening

Sincerely,
Bruce Lonsinger