Cspan, your unfiltered view of government. Created by campell and 97 and brought to you today by your television provider. The former wells fargo executive testified themselves as the consumer abuses that led to the executives earnings. Members of the House Financial Services committee question the witnesses on their actions at wells fargo and why no one has been prosecuted for the consumer abuses. This is just over two and a half hours. Thank you. This hearing is entitled Holding Wells Fargo Accountable examining the roll of board of directors and that the greatest patterns of consumer abuses. Today, we received testimony from elisabeth and mr. James quigley who until earlier this weeks are as chair of the board of directors of wells fargo and companys Walls Fargo Bank respectively. Both have resigned as our call for the resignations following the release of us phasing majority statute on wells fargos compliance failures in their individual failures as Board Members. Resignations do n
The chairman of the gentleman from mr. From texas is recognized. Thank you madam chair. Madam chair, as a practitioner, i once represented a rips recipient of welfare who is charged with a crime, because she made more money at a job and receiveds some benefits from the federal government. She had to be prosecuted. A crowned with allege. If this bank works much smaller, had maybe ten employees who were engaging in this type of activity, opening an opening up false accounts, fraudulent accounts, creating fraudulent credit cards. Someone would be prosecuted. If small banks would have had prosecution take place within the rank 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 steam, that you are beyond the law of the law to apply to wells fargo just does it ap
The chairman of the gentleman from mr. From texas is recognized. Thank you madam chair. Madam chair, as a practitioner, i once represented a rips recipient of welfare who is charged with a crime, because she made more money at a job and receiveds some benefits from the federal government. She had to be prosecuted. A crowned with allege. If this bank works much smaller, had maybe ten employees who were engaging in this type of activity, opening an opening up false accounts, fraudulent accounts, creating fraudulent credit cards. Someone would be prosecuted. If small banks would have had prosecution take place within the rank 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 steam, that you are beyond the law of the law to apply to wells fargo just does it ap
Mr. Mchenry you have access of liquidity to get through any crisis you would foresee . Yes, absolutely. Mr. Mchenry in terms of safety and soundness, you are from the harm previous regime, thats positive. In terms of safety and soundness youre management, cleaning up the ship. So our expectations is we should have no problems from you in soundness, ety and is that fair . Mr. Scharf i think its fair work once we finish the we laid out, you should feel that. Mr. Mchenry ok. At employees do you have wells fargo . R. Schaefer i have mr. Scharf 260,000. Mr. Mchenry how many are customer facing . R. Scharf i dont know the answer. It has to be easily 100,000. Mr. Mchenry sure. Do you have plans in order to respond to the current threats covid19, especially in your footprint in california . Absolutely. We are, as i said mr. Mchenry as well as and other state primaries that are seeing an outbreak . Approach on ur covid 19 is we should do the ing we can to ensure safety of our employees as well
Columbia law school, an expert on antitrust, copyright and Communications Law and a contributing opinion writer for the New York Times, including the master switch in the curse of bigness. Professor wu has twice been part of the politico list of 50 individuals transforming american politics and was named to the American Academy of arts and sciences in 2017. He received his bachelors of science from mcgill university. Fiona scott morton, a professor at the University School of management. Nationally recognized as a leading scholar and published articles in leading economic journals. From 2011 to 2012 she served as Deputy Assistant attorney general at the United States department of justice where she helped enforce the nations antitrust laws. The third witness on our panel is stacy mitchell, codirector of the institute for local self reliance. She spent years working with policymakers and grassroots organizations to help develop city, state, and federal policies to strengthen independent