Wells Fargo exec in accounts scandal deserves jail time, say prosecutors: ‘Corporate wrongdoers must be sent a clear message’ BYJoel Rosenblatt and Bloomberg September 2, 2023 at 11:49 PM GMT+8Wells Fargo paid $3 billion in penalties in 2020 over its widespread practice of opening checking...
WASHINGTON, Feb. 21 (Xinhua) -- Wells Fargo, one of the leading U.S. banks, has agreed to pay 3 billion U.S. dollars to settle criminal and civil investigations with the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) over its fake accounts scandal,...
Wells Fargo's troubles with its fake-account scandal have earned the bank a credit downgrade from ratings agency DBRS. The move is in reaction to the growing costs the third-largest U.S. bank by assets faces regarding the scandal. Wells Fargo's shares are down more than 3 percent in 2017...
WASHINGTON, July 17 (Xinhua) -- Wells Fargo is preparing to shed a number of its businesses as the U.S. bank tries to restore investor confidence in the wake of the fake account scandal, Financial Times reported on Sunday. "We get a little bit smaller, a little bit less complex and w...
Taking a comprehensive view of the 2016 Wells Fargo "fake accounts" scandal, the authors detail the bank's legal, ethical, management, and social responsibility transgressions. Civil and criminal charges are explored鈥攕ome of which have been settled. Ethical and immoral aspects are examined in ...
A new probe into Wells Fargo’s sales practices reports that thousands of small businesses were impacted in the account fraud. BY HELENA BALL, EDITORIAL ASSISTANT, INC.COM @HELEMBALL OCT 5, 2016 Getty Images Thousands of small business owners were reportedly impacted by the improper sales pract...
Wells Fargo CFO John Shrewsberry said the bank has held top officials accountable. Sen. Elizabeth Warren has demanded that board members in office during the bank's cross-selling scandal be removed. watch now VIDEO08:04 Wells Fargo CFO: There’s a lot to like about this past quarter As the...
Wells Fargo has paid a hefty price forits fake account scandal. While the bank has fired more than 5,000 employees implicated in the scandal, clawed back $75m in compensation from executives it blamed for the fraud, and agreed to pay $110m to settle a class action lawsuit over its openi...
Wells Fargo Fraud Scandal In September of 2016, it was revealed that there was alleged misconduct at one of the largest and safest banking institutions in the United States. Wells Fargo Bank was ranked among the nation’s safest financial institutions according to an analysis done by Global Finan...
LOS ANGELES -- A former Wells Fargo Bank executive accused of overseeing a ruse that created millions of bogus customer accounts has agreed to plead guilty to criminal charges likely to send her prison for her role in the scandal. The agreement filed Wednesday in a Los Angeles federal co...