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Violation Tracker Individual Record

Company: Wells Fargo Investments, LLC
Current Parent Company: Wells Fargo
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Penalty: $1,900,000
Year: 2009
Date: November 18, 2009
Offense Group: financial offenses
Primary Offense: investor protection violation
Violation Description: Wells Fargo Investments agreed to pay $1.9 million to a group of states to resolve litigation alleging it failed to properly inform investors about the risks of auction-rate securities.
Level of Government: state
Action Type: agency action
Agency: Multistate Financial Regulators Case
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
HQ Country of Current Parent: USA
HQ State of Current Parent: California
Ownership Structure of Current Parent: publicly traded
Major Industry of Current Parent: financial services
Specific Industry of Current Parent: banking
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