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The Wells Fargo cross-selling scandal was caused by creation of millions of fraudulent savings and checking accounts on behalf of Wells Fargo clients without their consent or knowledge due to aggressive internal sales goals at Wells Fargo. News of the fraud became widely known in late 2016 after various regulatory bodies, including the Consumer ...
The Wells Fargo case is brought under the False Claims Act, which gives whistleblowers incentives to report fraud against the government, and under FIRREA, a little-used statute that has grown in ...
Wells Fargo & Co. (NYSE: WFC) is under pressure on yet one more case against it from the financial crisis. The Manhattan U.S. Attorney's office has filed a mortgage fraud lawsuit against Wells ...
Finally, Tirelli points out that the papers Wells Fargo filed included a different transfer of the mortgage dated three days before the debtor took out the loan. The documents are a mess, yet ...
In August 2012, the SEC charged Wells Fargo for improperly selling asset-backed commercial paper (ABCP) structured with high-risk mortgage-backed securities and collateralized debt obligations (CDOs) to municipalities, non-profit institutions, and other customers, almost exclusively upon the basis of their credit ratings. [103]
The foreclosure crisis was extensively covered by news outlets beginning in October 2010, and several large banks—including Bank of America, JP Morgan, Wells Fargo, and Citigroup—responded by halting their foreclosure proceedings temporarily in some or all states.
On Wednesday, Wells Fargo reached an agreement with the Federal Reserve and agreed to pay a $85 million fine to settle civil charges-- the largest fine the Fed has ever imposed in a consumer case ...
This week, a lawsuit filed against Bank of America detailed the worst mortgage practices at Countrywide -- which BofA acquired in 2008. The suit charged that Countrywide had, as a policy ...