SF News Developer of Office-to-Residential Conversions In Talks to Buy Downtown SF Wells Fargo Building The longtime headquarters of Wells Fargo on Montgomery Street may become a residential building as a developer already working on office conversions in SF is reportedly close to buying the property.
SF News Climate Activists Chain Themselves to Wells Fargo Wagon in Downtown SF to Protest Fossil Fuel Investment Holding signs saying things like "Tell Wells Fargo: Stop Funding Climate Change," a group of climate activists has revived the era of downtown climate protests in San Francisco Monday morning.
SF News FBI Asks For Public's Help In Catching SF's 'Smiling Face Bandit' A bemused bank robber is on the loose in San Francisco and the feds need your help. KRON 4 brings us news of the local bank robber dubbed the "Smiling Face Bandit" who
SF News Report Released On Wells Fargo Fake Account Scandal; $75 Million To Be Taken Back From Two Former Execs The scandal that broke last fall involving Wells Fargo and its aggressive and sketchy sales tactics can mostly be blamed on two former executives according to a new 113-page report released by the
SF News California Attorney General Investigating Wells Fargo For Identity Theft California Attorney General Kamala Harris is leading an investigation into whether criminal identity theft took place at Wells Fargo, a bank embroiled in a scandal that may involve up to two million bank
SF News Bay Area Whistleblower Told Wells Fargo CEO About Bogus Account Problem In 2007 A letter has emerged, addressed to former Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf in September 2007, detailing the widespread practice of creating fraudulent bank and credit card accounts in order to meet sales quotas
SF News [Update] Wells Fargo At 2nd And Folsom Receives Visit From The Bomb Squad, Then The All Clear Office workers in the SoMa area around Wells Fargo at 2nd and Folsom are Tweeting frantically as the Bomb Squad visits the area, suiting up and entering the building. Some say they're being
Arts & Entertainment SF-Based Promoter Agrees To Cancel Bill Cosby's Bay Area Stop Comedian and actor Bill Cosby, whose legacy as America's Favorite TV dad has been sullied by a multitude of allegations of sexual assault, has recently been touring the US to both applause and
SF News Take A Look At San Francisco's Gold Nugget Stealing Smash-And-Grabbers If you take a look at the above and below photos of the masked bandits who crashed a stolen SUV into the Wells Fargo History Museum, will it help officials track down the
SF News Stolen SUV Crashes Into Museum, Masked Gunmen Abscond With Gold It seems like something out of a lesser USA Network drama — a dramatic heist at a prominent bank's history museum, with masked suspects, a gunpoint confrontation, and gold nuggets at stake. But this
SF News SFPD Seeks Suspects In Pair Of Bank Robberies Days after a couple of San Francisco banks were knocked off only hours apart, the San Francisco Police Department continues to seek the culprits. The first heist went down at 12:55 p.
SF News Mission Bank Robbed Over at 22nd and Mission, where a Wells Fargo and a US Bank compete for your dollars, a rapscallion walked into a bank, handed the teller a note, and casually sauntered out with
SF News Wells Fargo Dodges $203 Million In Overdraft Fees Sad news for anyone who has ever felt the sting of an overdraft fee from the nation's largest bank: a federal appeals court in San Francisco declared yesterday that Wells Fargo Bank does
SF News Damaged Valencia Street Businesses Might Be Fined By City, Receive Bank Donation [Updated] Following Monday night's splinter group mini-riot that befell parts of the Mission (most notably on Valencia Street), Wells Fargo donated a whopping $25,000 to aid the more than 20 small businesses that
SF News Photos: Downtown One Big Traffic Jam As Occupy SF Takes Over Wells Fargo [Updated] Scads of Occupy activists marched to the Wells Fargo offices at California for the annual shareholders meeting. According to ABC 7, "An estimated 400 people are protesting outside " the building right now. "The
SF News Man Takes Customer Hostage At Hayward Wells Fargo Bank A man wielding a knife has apparently taken a customer hostage at a Wells Fargo Bank in Hayward this morning. "Police have closed traffic in the area near Wells Fargo Bank at 1172
SF News Scene from a Wells Fargo Bank Protest Mario Howell, pastor of a church in Antioch, Calif., is held by San Francisco police as he is taken away from the Wells Fargo Bank shareholders meeting in San Francisco today. What was
SF News Wells Fargo to Layoff 3,800 Wells Fargo, the fourth largest bank in the U.S., will eliminate some 3,800 jobs, around 1.4 percent of its workforce. Sad. We like the Farg. (Now, we use small credit
SF News Man Gets Seven Years for Nine SF Bank Robberies 52-year-old James Burge plead guilty to the unarmed robberies of nine SF banks in 2007 and 2008, including branches of Wells Fargos, Bank of the West and Bank of America, and was sentenced
SF News Father & Son Bank Robbers Arrested A less-than-professional father and son bank heist team was arrested in Santa Rosa yesterday, shortly after the son walked into the Wells Fargo on Oakmont Drive wearing a mask and carrying a realistic-looking
misc But When is Spinster Appreciation Day? Anyway, next Sunday (the 13th) will see a bunch of museums and attractions offering free admission for kids who can prove that they live in SF. Some are pretty cool (the Musee Mechanique,
SF News Get a Job -- Volunteer/Intern (And maybe a mole for SFist? Just kidding. Sort of.): [Office of Supervisor Jake McGoldrick] -- Interactive Producer [Clear Ink] -- Experienced Web Hacker [Zivity] -- Creative Development - Marketing
SF News Your Commute: Grab That Cash We don't often wish we commuted by car from the East Bay to San Jose, but today's a special day -- bank robbers trying to flee the cops on 680 are throwing their
SF News SFist checks out the 510: Happy Birthday, Jack London The Oakland High School attendee went on to extract revenge against schoolchildren everywhere by writing a series of books guaranteed to be used in classroom lessons on everything from symbolism to manifest destiny.
misc Wells Embargo Red state on blue state violence! The conservative Colorado-based group Focus on the Family (the guys who came out against SpongeBob Squarepants) has announced that it's withdrawing all its money from Wells Fargo
