Wells Fargo Investor Seeks Fake-Job Interviews Probe Files (1)

A Florida pension fund is demanding Wells Fargo & Co. turn over files about a possible criminal probe into whether the bank violated federal law by setting up fake job interviews to meet in-house diversity guidelines.

The request in a Delaware lawsuit is tied to reports in the New York Times last year that federal prosecutors are investigating the bank over claims managers in its wealth-management division arranged job interviews for black and female candidates for already-filled positions.

Lawyers for the Pompano Beach General Employees Retirement System, which holds Wells Fargo stock, said Monday it wants the files “to ...