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California Attorney General Investigating Wells Fargo For Identity Theft

Posted on October 19, 2016 by Dissent

Caleb Pershan reports:

California Attorney General Kamala Harris is leading an investigation into whether criminal identity theft took place at Wells Fargo, a bank embroiled in a scandal that may involve up to two million bank and credit card accounts allegedly created without customers’ approval as part of an unscrupulous, sales-driven corporate culture.

The LA Times has learned through a public records request of a warrant served on October 5th to search Wells Fargo’s San Francisco headquarters.

Read more on SFist.


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