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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 ...
Former Wells Fargo executive Carrie Tolstedt was sentenced to three years’ probation on Friday for her role in the bank’s sprawling fake-accounts scandal.
Carrie L. Tolstedt is an ousted American banking executive and former head of the community banking division at Wells Fargo, [1] from which she retired in 2016 before the company's account fraud scandal came to light. In 2017, Wells Fargo retroactively fired Tolstedt for cause. In 2023, she would plead guilty to obstructing a bank examination.
Wells Fargo's compliance issues came under the spotlight after a scandal over its sales practices erupted in 2016. Regulators mandated additional oversight of the lender in the wake of the turmoil.
Wells Fargo & Co will pay $65 million to settle claims that it misled investors about its "cross-selling" business strategy, according to officials.
Timothy J. Sloan (born 1959/60) is an American banker. He was the chief executive officer (CEO) of Wells Fargo from October 2016 until he resigned in March 2019, after significant pressure related to an ongoing controversy related to an account fraud scandal.
U.S. banking giant Wells Fargo confessed to creating millions of fake accounts from 2002 to 2016. Now, new troubles have come to light. Fraudulent bank accounts resurface at Wells Fargo
A month earlier, the company's internal auditors discovered over $3.8 billion in illicit accounting entries intended to mask WorldCom's dwindling earnings, which was by itself more than the accounting fraud uncovered at Enron less than a year earlier. [109] Ultimately, WorldCom admitted to inflating its assets by $11 billion. [110]