{"id":184967,"date":"2024-03-12T08:22:22","date_gmt":"2024-03-12T13:22:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/wells-fargo-abruptly-terminating-customers-bank-accounts-say-attorneys-general-in-16-states-demanding-immediate-freeze-on-lenders-alleged-debanking-practices"},"modified":"2024-03-12T08:22:22","modified_gmt":"2024-03-12T13:22:22","slug":"wells-fargo-abruptly-terminating-customers-bank-accounts-say-attorneys-general-in-16-states-demanding-immediate-freeze-on-lenders-alleged-debanking-practices","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/03\/wells-fargo-abruptly-terminating-customers-bank-accounts-say-attorneys-general-in-16-states-demanding-immediate-freeze-on-lenders-alleged-debanking-practices","title":{"rendered":"Wells Fargo Abruptly Terminating Customers\u2019 Bank Accounts, Say Attorneys General in 16 States, Demanding Immediate Freeze on Lender\u2019s Alleged Debanking Practices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/wells-fargo-abruptly-terminating-customers-bank-accounts-say-attorneys-general-in-16-states-demanding-immediate-freeze-on-lenders-alleged-debanking-practices2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>More than a dozen state attorneys general (AGs) are accusing banking titan Wells Fargo of abruptly terminating customers\u2019 accounts without warning.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter addressed to Wells Fargo CEO Charles Scharf, 16 Republican AGs across the country <a href=\"https:\/\/adfmedialegalfiles.blob.core.windows.net\/files\/AGLetterToWellsFargo.pdf\">accuse<\/a> the trillion-dollar lender of debanking customers in a political and discriminatory manner.<\/p>\n<p>The AGs say Wells Fargo has started a new trend that looks at clients\u2019 political views as a basis for retaining banking access.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More than a dozen state attorneys general (AGs) are accusing banking titan Wells Fargo of abruptly terminating customers\u2019 accounts without warning. In a letter addressed to Wells Fargo CEO Charles Scharf, 16 Republican AGs across the country accuse the trillion-dollar lender of debanking customers in a political and discriminatory manner. The AGs say Wells Fargo [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184967","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=184967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184967\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=184967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=184967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=184967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}