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State Sen. Steve Glazer said Wells Fargo’s iconic
stagecoach once represented trust and honest,
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STATE SENATE | 7TH DISTRICT |
State Sen. Steve Glazer tore into Wells Fargo for misconduct involving millions of falsified customer accounts. But, Wells Fargo Chief Executive Steve Sloan wasn’t there to take the thumping.
Sloan never said he would attend Monday’s State Senate Banking Committee Oversight Hearing, said Glazer, its chairperson, but he also never declined the invitation.
The State Senate’s historian said it is the first time a corporation skipped an oversight hearing since disgraced energy provider Enron in the late 1990s.
“It’s sad to see Wells Fargo join this elite Hall of Shame,” said Glazer, who represents Contra Costa County and the Tri Valley in Alameda County. “Who could imagine that the bank that represented the values of honesty and fair-dealings for more than 160 years in California would now become an outlaw institution?”
Wells Fargo’s wrongdoing involved 2 million bank accounts, including 900,00 in California alone. Following a congressional hearing in October, Wells Fargo Chief Executive John Stumpf resigned.
A portion of Glazer’s intent through Monday’s hearing was to established how high up the chain of command knowledge of the bank’s illegal behavior had reached. Beforehand, correspondences and a meeting six weeks ago between Wells Fargo officials and Glazer, yielded no new information, he said, but more obfuscation.
“I remain unsatisfied on every material question,” said Glazer.
The senate banking committee, however, found evidence that 480 Wells Fargo branch managers were fired in last 5 years due to sales practice violations. Glazer asserted the number of firings suggests company executives should have been aware that problems existed. “This appears to be a company culture, an atmosphere of greed pushed from the top,” said Glazer.
Glazer said he hopes Wells Fargo provides in the near future a blueprint for how it intends to clean up its corporate culture.
This does not appear to be the last time Wells Fargo will be raked over the coals by state lawmakers. Glazer’s hearing followed a similar Assembly oversight hearing last month.
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Glazer is just as sleazy as Wells Fargo.
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By MW:
Just like an extremely high percentage of the very sleaziest organized crime rings that pretend to be legitimate businesses, Wells Fargo is headquartered in the Sovereign State of the People's Republic of Scams FraudsFIXso. and which is also the home base of such demagogues and charlatans as Willie Brown, Dianne Feinstein, and Nancy Pelosi.
And therefore I myself personally refuse to believe that Wells Fargo, and which is headquartered in Scams FraudsFIXso – and which is the world's number one center for sleaze, fraud, scams, corruption, crooked lawyers, white collar criminals, professional pathological liars, snake oil salesmen, and illegal backroom fixes in exchange for under the table bribes – could be an outlaw organization.
In fact if that model of honesty and integrity known as Bernard Madoff had used Scams FraudsFIXso, and instead of NY, as his headquarters and had also managed to keep his organization subject only to local laws rather than federal jurisdiction, he could have stayed out of prison by using a politically connected sleazy SF lawyer to make a presentation to one of the paid off political hacks in judges' robes on SF Superior Court so as to “prove” that his scam, money laundering operation, and Ponzi scheme was “legitimate.”
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Too little too late Bozo Glazer! Were you sleeping when WF got ripped a new one or protesting the Tampon Tax?
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