$0.190 billion is a trivial amount for Wells Fargo: it amounts to 3.4% of their Q3 2016 profits. They made $5.6 Billion dollars last quarter on $22.3 Billion in

$0.190 billion is a trivial amount for Wells Fargo: it amounts to 3.4% of their Q3 2016 profits. They made $5.6 Billion dollars last quarter on $22.3 Billion in revenue. [1] If an individual commits one count of Social Security fraud they would pay a fine of $10,000 or about 20% of the median household income. [2] (This is an arbitrarily picked form of financial fraud) If the bank had a proportional punishment they would pay 20% of their annual revenue for systemic fraud, which would be roughly $18 billion dollars. [1] https://www.wellsfargo.com/about/investor-relations/investment-profile/ https://www.wellsfargo.com/about/investor-relations/investme... [2] https://www.reference.com/government-politics/penalties-commit-fraud-b34237c885792cfe https://www.reference.com/government-politics/penalties-comm... edit: used quarterly instead of annual figure for calculation