| Wells Fargo
Sued For Redlining After Refused Deposit
From Haitian-Born Man in SDNY
By Matthew
Russell Lee, Patreon Maxwell
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SDNY COURTHOUSE,
Feb 26 – Ernst Valery sued
Wells Fargo for
discrimination, or "banking
while
black."
On
February 7, U.S. District
Court for the Southern
District of New York Judge J.
Paul Oetken held a proceeding.
Inner City Press covered
it.
Valery,
born in Haiti, was depositing
a check for tax credit project
but Wells Fargo refused to
take it, instead "barraging
him, in front of his wife,
with a battery of
interrogatives questioning his
entitlement to the
funds."
The SDNY
action was stayed pending a
motion in the Ninth Circuit.
Now the stay is off, and
papers are due in four, then
three, then two weeks.
Later in February
in the Northern District of
California, Wells Fargo was
sued for discrimination in
lending, in Williams v. Wells
Fargo, 22-cv-990
(complaint here)
The SDNY case is
Valery v. Wells Fargo &
Company et al., 21-cv-5464
(Oetken)
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