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Magner determined that Wells Fargo had been duplicitous and misleading and ordered the
bank to pay $27,000 in damages and attorneys fees. She also took the unusual step of requiring
the servicer to audit about 400 home loan files in cases in the Eastern District of Louisiana.
Wells fought successfully to keep the results of the audit under seal, and last summer a federal
appeals court overturned the part of Magners ruling that required the audit. But two people
familiar with the results told iWatch News that Wells Fargos audit had turned up accounting
errors in nearly every loan file it reviewed.
The latest example of Wells bad behavior in Magners courtroom that has come to a resolution of
sorts is another case of Wells overcharging a borrower. In this suit, Jones v. Wells Fargo, filed in
2007, involved a borrower having to sue Wells to recoup overcharges by Wells plus actual
damages, plus a request for punitive damages. The ruling sets forth the sorry history in some
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