Loan Modification

Wells Fargo Financial to Close 638 Stores, Halt Origination of Non-Prime Portfolio Mortgages
Wells Fargo plans to close 638 Wells Fargo Financial stores across the United States as part of a wide-scale restructuring, the company said today in a press release. The move will result in roughly 3,800 layoffs, with the remaining 10,000-odd employees expected to be re-assigned to other Wells Fargo businesses...

Wells Fargo Sues Wells Fargo, Wells Fargo Denies Allegations
Via Calculated Risk, who gets credit for the excellent headline. FOX Business reports: Yet I could not resist asking Wells Fargo Bank NA why it filed a civil complaint against itself in a mortgage foreclosure case in Hillsborough County, Fla...

Wells Fargos Procedure of Freezing Accounts After A Bankruptcy Filing Invalidated
Last week, the Bankruptcy Appellate Panel (BAP) for the Ninth Circuit decided Mwangi v. Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.  At issue was Wells Fargo’s national procedure of running a computerized comparison of all newly filed chapter 7 bankruptcy cases against Wells Fargo’s list of account holders...

Top Mortgage Lender in 2009 is Wells Fargo
San Francisco-based bank Wells Fargo grabbed the title of top mortgage lender in 2009, according to MortgageDaily.com. Wells Fargo saw loan origination volume increase a whopping 83 percent compared with numbers in 2008, thanks largely to the record low mortgage rates on offer...

Willens: Wells Fargo and PNC: Tax Refunds in the Offing
Robert Willens (Robert Willens LLC, New York; Adjunct Professor, Columbia) has published Wells Fargo and PNC: Tax Refunds in the Offing?, 121 Tax Notes 1193 (Dec. 8, 2008): Wells Fargo & Co...

Wachovia employees whacked by Wells Fargo
Corporate retribution is an understatement. Changing firms is a fact of life in the brokerage industry. Firms offer their competitors' brokers bonuses as forgivable loans to leave, and they all do it...

Wells Fargo Faces Loan Discrimination Class Action
Wells Fargo Faces Loan Discrimination Class Action

Wells Fargo Faces Potential Class Action Over Home Equity Credit Lines
Wells Fargo Faces Potential Class Action over Home Equity Credit Lines

Wells Fargo Settles New Jersey State Investigation into Pick-a-Payment Mortgages
Wells Fargo Settles New Jersey State Investigation into Pick-a-Payment Mortgages

Wells Fargo and Rels Valuation
Face Home Evaluation Class Action

Office Politics
Ramsey County pays two deputies $750,000 settlement after being placed in dead end jobs.

Financial Elder Abuse - Financial Exploitation, Elder Abuse Lawyers
Financial Elder Abuse alleging seniors are taken advantage of for their finances.