Wells Fargo CEO steps down from federal bank panel

John Stumpf.
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Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf is stepping down from a national bank panel, two days after he was grilled during a Senate Banking Committee hearing regarding his company's recent scandal involving opening fake accounts for customers.

Stumpf resigned as the San Francisco bank district's representative to the Federal Advisory Council, effective Thursday. Council members are appointed for one-year terms that begin in January, and meet four times a year with the Fed's board of governors in Washington, D.C.

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.