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Elizabeth Warren: “Instead, evidently your definition of 'accountable' is to push the blame to your low-level employees.”

On the recordSeptember 19, 2016
Instead, evidently your definition of 'accountable' is to push the blame to your low-level employees.
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Elizabeth Warren
Democratic · Massachusetts

Editor's note · Context

Warren criticizes Stumpf's lack of accountability in the Wells Fargo scandal.

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