Why Wells Fargo Cut a $180M Whistleblower Payout to $55M

Why Wells Fargo Cut a $180M Whistleblower Payout to $55M

Wells Fargo was set to pay a whistleblower $180 million — then cut it to $55 million, even though nothing about the case itself had changed. That is what makes this difficult to ignore, because it suggests the outcome was not driven by the facts, but by something inside the system that changed instead. At first glance, that does not add up. If a whistleblower helps expose billions in wrongdoing, the reward should follow the scale of the result, …