One of my common themes is the duty of directors. They get paid a lot of money to act as fiduciaries for the company’s shareholders.
“Warren Keeps Pressure on Wells,” The Wall Street Journal, June 20, 2017 B10. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D. Mass.) is leaning on the Federal Reserve (arguably an independent body) to remove 12 directors who served on Wells Fargo’s Board when the account- cramming scandal was going on. Other problems have emerged at Wells Fargo since then.
The shareholders didn’t/couldn’t vote them out in April, and so far (as I know) the directors haven’t been held personally liable for negligent oversight. So it’s nice that someone is still pursuing the people in charge at the time that (some of the) bad things were happening.
Some executives got fired or their bonuses were docked. The shareholders lost a bundle in fines and penalties paid by the company. It would be nice if the directors were held responsible and accountable — not just to penalize them, but to put other directors on notice of what they are getting paid to do, and for whom.
Would be nice to have a poster child for the director’s duty.
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