OCC fines former Wells Fargo CEO $17.5M, bans him from banking industry
Former Wells Fargo Bank CEO John Stumpf was disciplined by the OCC on Thursday, but is the ban of someone in his mid-60s with tens of millions of dollars in net worth really more than a wrist slap?
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