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Wells Fargo must do more than pay to redeem fake account scandal
By 
Martin Woods2020-08-14T18:09:00
Wells Fargo is now operating under a different regime, but what have the billions of dollars the bank has spent in attending to the compliance failures that arose out of its fake account scandal delivered? Not enough, posits Martin Woods.
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