The committee will come to order. The gentleman from texas, mr. Green, who is also the chair for subcommittee and oversight for investigations is recognized for five minutes. Thank you, madam chair. Madam chair, as a practitioner, i once represented a recipient of welfare who was charged with a crime because she made more money at a job and received some benefits from the federal government. She had to be prosecuted. A crime was alleged. If this bank, where its mu was smaller, had maybe ten employees, had engaged in this type of activity, opening fraudulent accounts, creating fraudulent credit cards, someone would be prosecuted. A small bank would have had prosecutions take place within the ranks of the person within the bank. Evidence shows that small banks have had persons prosecuted. But wells fargo created 1. 5 million fraudulent accounts. Wells fargo had over 500,000 credit cards created, fraudulently. Is it the case that if you become so big and you create such a grand scheme, th
Noise the committee will come to order. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare recess of the committee at any time. This hearing is entitled Holding Wells Fargo Accountable and ceo perspectives for the bank that broke americas trust. I now recognize myself for five minutes with an Opening Statement. Today, wells far go ceo, charles scharf, will testify before the committee about how he plans to end wells fargo egregious battle of abuse. Hes the third wells fargo ceo to testify before this committee and less than three and a half years. I will note that each time wells fargo ceo testified before this committee, he has resigned soon thereafter. Mr. Charles scharf, you have taken on a massive challenge and while i certainly wish you luck, it is clear to this committee that the bank you inherited is essentially a flawless organization that has caused widespread harm to millions of consumers around the nation. Wells fargo has opened 3. 5 million fraudulent accounts with their
Noise the committee will come to order. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare recess of the committee at any time. This hearing is entitled Holding Wells Fargo Accountable and ceo perspectives for the bank that broke americas trust. I now recognize myself for five minutes with an Opening Statement. Today, wells far go ceo, charles scharf, will testify before the committee about how he plans to end wells fargo egregious battle of abuse. Hes the third wells fargo ceo to testify before this committee and less than three and a half years. I will note that each time wells fargo ceo testified before this committee, he has resigned soon thereafter. Mr. Charles scharf, you have taken on a massive challenge and while i certainly wish you luck, it is clear to this committee that the bank you inherited is essentially a flawless organization that has caused widespread harm to millions of consumers around the nation. Wells fargo has opened 3. 5 million fraudulent accounts with their
To come robin. All right, heres a peek at 92, well just cycle through some of the bridges so you can see how good it looks out there. This is west 92 and normally the traffic here on the san mateo bridge is so heavy that it spills back on to the nimitz freeway. Were just not getting that earlier this morning it was crawling, it was much much heavier. Now its just some minor crowding in only 14 minutes to the peninsula, even the bay bridge traffic is thinning out it was stacked up from the bottom of the maze earlier now its more like west grand so thats picking up 11 minutes off to fremont street and we never had any problems across the golden gates, most 25 minutes a quick trip nevado to San Francisco darya james. Thanks a lot rob and a tow won and our top story, the coronavirus a 3rd person has died in california of the virus and this came in elk grove in Sacramento County what we know about the person who died is that she was a woman in her 90s with Underlying Health conditions. She
And handle the coronavirus. noise the committee will come to order. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare recess of the committee at any time. This hearing is entitled Holding Wells Fargo Accountable and ceo perspectives for the bank that broke americas trust. I now recognize myself for five minutes with an Opening Statement. Today, wells far go ceo, charles scharf, will testify before the committee about how he plans to end wells fargo egregious battle of abuse. Hes the third wells fargo ceo to testify before this committee and less than three and a half years. I will note that each time wells fargo ceo testified before this committee, he has resigned soon thereafter. Mr. Charles scharf, you have taken on a massive challenge and while i certainly wish you luck, it is clear to this committee that the bank you inherited is essentially a flawless organization that has caused widespread harm to millions of consumers around the nation. Wells fargo has opened 3. 5 million fr