The California Department of Justice (CDJ) is investigating whether Wells Fargo is guilty of criminal identity theft, marking just the latest in the company’s legal issues resulting from sales practices that included employees using customers’ personal information to sign them up for accounts and other products and services without their consent or knowledge.
A search warrant issued by California Attorney General Kamala Harris on Oct. 5, obtained and published by the LA Times, advises local authorities that they may seize various properties from Wells Fargo on probable cause that “it was used as the means of committing a felony” and “it tends to show that a felony has been committed.”
Read on for more details about the investigation.