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Re:The news industry was complicit in the opioid crisis by teachrdan on Tuesday September 24, 2019 @12:38PM (#21062007)
In the case of Baltimore, Wells Fargo employees targeted black families for subprime home mortgages in the run up to the 2008 financial crisis, even when they qualified for conventional mortgages with lower rates.

Wells Fargo organized events for African Americans on "how to build generational wealth," but internally said they were selling "ghetto loans" to "mud people."

https://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/07/us/07baltimore.html

https://consumerist.com/5283290/affidavits-on-how-wells-farg...

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Re:The news industry was complicit in the opioid crisis by coding123 on Tuesday September 24, 2019 @01:06PM (#21062293)
On that second link

> Paschal complained, yet Wells Fargo promoted him to area manager...

And here he is at another company...

https://www.jgwentworth.com/mortgages/about/branch-locations... https://www.jgwentworth.com/mortgages/about/branch-locations...

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