Wells Fargo pauses annual meeting due to unruly shareholder
Reuters
Published Apr 25, 2017 11:13AM ET
Wells Fargo pauses annual meeting due to unruly shareholder
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Wells Fargo & Co's (N:WFC) management ejected an unruly shareholder from the bank's contentious annual meeting on Tuesday after an extended period of argument and what the chairman characterized as a "physical approach" to a director.
Multiple shareholders stood and yelled at the board of directors and Chief Executive Tim Sloan. The shareholders were angry about the bank's creation of as many as 2.1 million phony accounts in customers' names.
"You're saying we're out of order. Wells Fargo has been out of order for years!" the ejected shareholder said. Sloan and Chairman Stephen Sanger repeatedly asked him to sit down because he was out of order, and then called a recess, only to have other shareholders stand and yell.
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