Politics & Government

Vindication for Elizabeth Warren?

After a verbal thrashing before a Senate Committee, Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf is out. But is it enough for Warren?

After a verbal battering before a Senate banking committee, Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf is out. But that still might not be enough, according to Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren.

Warren took Stumpf to task over the bank's intense "cross-selling" practices, which spurred employees to open accounts for customers without their permission. She was especially critical of the fact that lower-level employees were fired for their misdeeds, but upper management, including Stumpf, faced no consequences.

"What have you actually done to hold yourself accountable?" she asked Stumpf, at that late September hearing. "You should resign."

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Now, Stumpf appears to indeed be on the way out, but Warren's questions remain. Taking, as usual, to Twitter, she raised the following issues Wednesday night:

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