Los Angeles Film School Made Thousands of Fake Jobs for Grads, Former Execs Say in Lawsuit

Two former executives of the Los Angeles Film School have filed a whistleblower lawsuit accusing the school of creating thousands of fake jobs for its graduates in an effort to maintain its eligibility for federal funding. The lawsuit, obtained Tuesday by TheWrap, was filed in June 2024 and unsealed this past May after the U.S. Department of Justice declined to get involved. In it, former admissions VP Ben Chaib and former career advancement VP Dave Phillips accuse LAFS of vast amounts of fraud to maintain their accreditation and of hiding evidence of that fraud from a 2017 audit by the U.S. . . .