Wells Fargo led all Denver metro banks with a 21% deposit share. (BusinessDen file)

Published: October 7, 2024

Wells Fargo is asking a south metro judge to throw out a lawsuit that seeks to blame the bank, at least in part, for a lawyer’s decision to send $375,000 to hackers in Hong Kong.

“(Randy) Corporon requested the wire transfer and Wells Fargo complied with his request,” the bank’s attorneys wrote in a motion to dismiss Sept. 27. “Any losses to the Corporon defendants were directly caused by Mr. Corporon’s own failure to recognize an obvious scam.”

In 2021, Corporon was the divorce attorney for a man named Thaddeus Kowalik. After the Kowaliks sold their home in south Denver, it was Corporon who held the proceeds in escrow. Then, when the divorce was settled, it fell on Corporon to pay each side their half.

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