Wells Fargo banking unit probed for employee fraud: Report

“Workers in the bank’s wholesale unit added or changed personal information including birth dates, Social Security numbers and addresses for people associated with its business clients in 2017 and early 2018, according to The Wall Street Journal, which cited people familiar with the matter. At the time, the unit was pressed with regulatory deadlines, including one related to anti-money laundering controls.”

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The Department of Justice is probing Wells Fargo’s wholesale banking unit for fraud in the wake of reports that employees adjusted corporate customers’ information on documents without their knowledge or consent, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.

Workers in the bank’s wholesale unit are said to have added or changed personal information including birth dates, Social Security numbers and addresses for people associated with its business clients in 2017 and early 2018. At the time, the unit was pressed with regulatory deadlines, including one related to anti-money laundering controls.

The DOJ is said to be investigating whether management influenced employee actions, people familiar with the matter told the Journal, looking to see whether there is a pattern of behavior when it comes to management pressure.

Read on.

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Boarding Process is a Legal Fiction

EXHIBIT A: “1. Plaintiff, Ditech Financial, LLC (“Ditech”), formerly Greentree Servicing LLC, appears to have willfully violated this Court’s order to produce training manuals. The training manual produced on November 16, 2017, now appears to show that Ditech’s standard business practice does not verify prior servicer’s records for accuracy before boarding loans.

2. The training manual produced appears to show that Ditech’s witness, Christopher Ogden (“Mr. Ogden”), gave false testimony in an effort to introduce the prior servicer’s records into evidence under false pretenses.

3. On June 28, 2017, Mr. Ogden appeared for deposition, gave evasive and incomplete answers, and refused to turn over training materials upon which he relied to give his testimony about the loan boarding process and the creation of business records to be submitted in
evidence at trial under the business records exception to the hearsay rule…”

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Here is a case in which the court ordered certain parties and witnesses and lawyers to show cause why they shouldn’t be held in criminal contempt for lying to the court about the boarding process.

I don’t have time to do more than tell you to read it if your case involves DiTech, Greentree or Ocwen.

Notable reference: more than 1.4 million boarded loans at Ocwen with no checking for errors.

see 2017_11_20-Order-to-Show-Cause-Why-Ditechs-Witness-and-Ditechs-Atty-Should-not-be-Held-in-Indirect-Criminal-Contempt-of-Court

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