Ex-Wells employees who were fired for NOT committing fraud launch $2.6B lawsuit
by Cory Doctorow from on (#1W6EF)
When four named whistleblowers came forward to reveal that they'd been illegally fired from Wells Fargo for reporting that the company was experiencing widespread fraud, it was deja vu all over again: Wells also punished whistleblowers who sounded the alarm during the subprime crisis, and was thus so totally compromised that they needed a $36B taxpayer bailout. (more")