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Re:Wells Fargo Hit with $1B in Fines by ribosometronome on Friday April 20, 2018 @02:57PM (#16887545)
>I bet none of those people will be made whole.

At this level of fine? Probably not. $1,000,000,000 is a substantial amount of cash but that would only be ~$37,000 a person if 100% of the fine went to the only the victims who lost their vehicles. Certainly enough to replace a lost car but far from adequate to cover damages from the effects of losing a vehicle and living with that repossession on your credit history.

And that doesn't even account for that 27,000 was only the number that suffered repossessions, not the number victimized by Wells Fargo.

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Re:Wells Fargo Hit with $1B in Fines by stjohnswarts on Friday April 20, 2018 @09:05PM (#16889456)
They also have to pay back the people they snookered all their money plus interest. That's been stated in the articles that I've ready about the matter.
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