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Elizabeth Warren: “Wells Fargo needs to start over, and that will not happen until the bank rids itself of people like you who led it into…”

On the recordOctober 2, 2017
Wells Fargo needs to start over, and that will not happen until the bank rids itself of people like you who led it into this crisis.
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Elizabeth Warren
Democratic · Massachusetts

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Calls for Wells Fargo to remove leadership responsible for the fake account scandal.

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