I called a college to find out if a gross misdemeanor prevents someone from getting federal financial aid.
It doesn't. Apparently, the only crime which prevents someone from getting federal aid is a drug charge.
Other kinds of crime, like assault, robbery, and murder, even RICO, do not keep someone, anyone, from eligible for federal monies.
When the financial aid counselor told me this I said, "You've got to be kidding me." She wasn't kidding.
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Unless there are mitigating factors, people convicted of crimes involving murder, RICO, etc. won't get into college to get the federal funding in the first place. Colleges are becomming more and more selective about their applicants, especially with the economy being so bad and thus a augmented rate of applicants. Background checks are perfomed by the college and government entities issuing the funds, and lying on applications can be cause for revokation of a degree or dismissal after matriculation. The U.S. doesn't aim to give money to murderers. The government nor our educational institutions do not want the reputation for funding the educations of the Charles Mansons of the world, rather they may fund people who were convicted of involuntary manslaughter, etc. Some people make stupid mistakes, and genuinely learn from them, and deserve a second chance so they may make an honest living for themselves and thus not propegate their cycle of immorality, poverty, and aggression. I would not be happy knowing my hard earned money is going to taxes to pay for callous murderers, however, knowing it's going to pay for someone who was wrongfully convicted, or commited a youthful indiscretion is more permissible to me.
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