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Wells Fargo Just Made The Case For Elizabeth Warren’s Bank Agency

Discussion in 'News & Current Events' started by Crabtownboy, Sep 10, 2016.

  1. Crabtownboy

    Crabtownboy Well-Known Member
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    This is why governmental regulations are needed. Wells Fargo has been caught so often in shady deals that I would never have an account with them.

    From: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/wells-fargo-fraud_us_57d2d237e4b03d2d459a083c?

    Wells Fargo just proved, again, that no scam is beneath America’s financial institutions. And no institution is above being watched by a federal agency.

    On Thursday, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau ― the watchdog group proposed by Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D. Mass.) in the aftermath of the financial crisis ― announced that Wells Fargo would pony up a total of $185 million for perpetrating a huge scam on its customers.

    Over at least the past five years, Wells Fargo employees created more than 1.5 million sham checking accounts and applied for 565,000 credit cards, using customer names and money. Customers were charged unnecessary fees, saw their credit scores fall or were simply confused when debit and credit cards they never asked for showed up in the mail.

    “Was the Great Financial Crisis so long ago that all chasteness and propriety are already out the window? This scam has been apparently going on for five years,” writes Josh Brown, a financial blogger. “These people are fearless.”

    The CFPB has come under intense criticism from Republicans, who say it’s a drag on business. Many ― including presidential hopeful Donald Trump and his running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence ― have said they would like to see the agency abolished as part of their intended dismantling of the 2010 Dodd-Frank legislation passed to prevent another economic meltdown.

    But every time the agency exposes wrongdoing in consumer banking ― as it did on Thursday ― the CFPB offers a strong counterpoint to those arguments.


     
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    Let's see the evidence that the BANK was involved in this scam and not just some of their employees.
     
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    $185 million dollar fine.
     
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    That's not proof the bank was involved, but that they did not exercise due diligence. That's bad enough, but your source makes it appear they were behind and/or involved in the scam. Where is the evidence of that?
     
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    They have a history of criminal and criminal like activities. Read:

    http://www.corp-research.org/wells-fargo

    http://www.occupy.com/article/these...e-your-money-wells-fargo#sthash.t4C4y0xj.dpbs

    http://clclt.com/theclog/archives/2...fargo-make-the-criminal-bank-dirty-dozen-list

    There are more, but that is enough for now.
     
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    Per BLM, we're not supposed to bring up someone's past with the police and use it as evidence to determine probable cause. So, which is it?

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    So what? I wouldn't bank with Wells Fargo if it was the last bank standing.

    Where is your evidence that they were involved in this scam?

    I'm taking this dodge to mean you don't have any, if your source does, they didn't post it. But that didn't stop the innuendo. Your problem is the source. It's just plain unreliable and you fall for anything they write.
     
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