Wells Fargo Whistleblower on Sham Interviews Wins Right to Sue

A whistleblower who accused Wells Fargo & Co. of conducting sham interviews with minority job candidates will now be able to sue the bank over his firing.

Wells Fargo lost a bid to place the former employee’s wrongful-termination complaint into secret arbitration proceedings. That means Joe Bruno will have the chance to take to open court his claims that his firing was retaliatory, and potentially present new details about the interviews.

Bruno was the first person to publicly claim in 2022 that Wells Fargo had been interviewing minority candidates for positions that had already been filled so executives could say ...