LOL – like there’s a really big difference between WF, MS and BofA…hardy, har, har!
State Treasurer Denise Nappier will review all of Connecticut’s business relationships with Wells Fargo, as the bank is mired in scandal over bogus accounts. Wells Fargo is leading a bond sale for Connecticut next month; Nappier now says she will appoint Morgan Stanley to partner in managing that sale.
Maybe Uncle Richard should have waited to decide the conspiracy claim since Wells Fargo is in the process of exposing itself. Whaddah ya think? Sydney
CN) — Wells Fargo must face fraud claims over $163 million in securities that Wachovia, now owned by Wells Fargo, allegedly used as a “dumping ground” for assets it wanted off its books, a federal judge ruled.
A number of specialized investment entities sued Wells Fargo in New York after three collateralized debt obligations marketed by Wachovia Capital Markets defaulted following the 2008 financial crisis.
These entities, led by Loreley Financing No. 3, invested a total of $163 million in the CDOs, which they now claim were used as a “private dumping ground for rapidly deteriorating assets” that Wachovia wanted to get rid of.
Wells Fargo is the successor in interest to Wachovia, having purchased the bank in 2008 in an FDIC-brokered deal following Wachovia’s heavy losses in the subprime mortgage crisis.
The Second Circuit upheld the plaintiffs’ primary fraud claim last year, and Wells Fargo did not attempt to…
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Ditech Financial will pay $1.4 million to the state of Massachusetts to settle charges that the company engaged in “abusive debt collection practices” by excessively calling borrowers to collect payment as well as not property notifying some borrowers of their mortgage information, the state’s attorney general announced this week.
According to the announcement from Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey, Ditech Financial, formerly known as Green Tree Servicing, agreed to an “assurance of discontinuance,” which requires Ditech to stop making “excessive debt collection calls” to consumers.
The order also requires Ditect to provide written notice regarding the borrowers’ right to receive detailed information about any debts that Ditech sought to collect, both of which are required by state law.
The order settles claims uncovered by an investigation by Healey’s office into Ditech’s debt collection practices in the state.
Healey’s office alleged that since 2012, Ditech “routinely violated” the state’s laws.
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Deadly Clear 