The CFPB last week filed an administrative consent order against a former Wells Fargo employee, for running an alleged illegal mortgage “fee-shifting” scheme, fining him $85,000 and banning him from working in the mortgage industry for a year. The bureau accused David Eghbali, formerly a loan officer for the Wilshire Crescent Wells Fargo branch in Beverly Hills, CA, of referring a substantial number of loan closings to a single escrow company, New Millennium Escrow, Inc., which allegedly shifted its fees from some customers to others at his request. “While employed by Wells Fargo from November 2007 through July 2015, in connection with originating federally related mortgage loans to consumers primarily for personal, family or household purposes, respondent provided real-estate settlement ...