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Twitter lights up about the Wells Fargo sandbagging kerfuffle

  • Twitter lit up when the full extent of the scandal emerged.
  • All kinds of analysts took to social media to voice their frustration.
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Twitter lights up about the Wells Fargo sandbagging kerfuffle
Wells Fargo can't seem to get out of its own way. After it was revealed that 5300 employees had been fired for opening up over 2 million fake bank and credit card accounts, the bank tried to deflect blame from itself. The bank's PR has admitted that there was a problem but blamed employees for the problem. Obviously, Twitter didn't like that. It's bad enough a big financial institution was discovered doing something that redistributed income from its customers to its employees. But the icing on the cake was the fact that the head of the division in question left the firm with a sizable bonus. Here's some of the top tweets on the phantom account scandal at Wells Fargo: The Fox Business newscaster doesn't believe that this was a grassroots problem. How could 5300 employees independently find a way to sandbag account opening numbers? Wells Fargo did respond quickly once the news hit of the bank's settlement with the CFPB. But the response was tepid and kind of danced around assuming real responsibility over its employees' actions. The US senator from New Jersey isn't happy about the severance agreement Carrie Tolstedt received. The unit leader had been praised by upper management as the standard bearer of the firm and lauded for her unit's cross selling performance. The FT ran a pretty scathing editorial trying to shift the focus off the embroiled employees and on to senior management. "The bank’s bosses should accept accountability for the shortcomings identified by the regulator, rather than lump it all on the sacked salespeople," wrote the FT. The kerfuffle wiped about $9 billion dollars off Wells' market cap, dropping the bank from the title of largest U.S. bank. J.P.Morgan now sits atop the industry.

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