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A former executive at Wells Fargo bank is claiming that the company held "fake" job interviews for minority candidates for positions that had already been filled and says he was fired for bringing attention to the matter.

Joe Bruno, a former executive in the wealth management division at Wells Fargo’s corporate offices in Jacksonville, Florida, told the New York Times that the company would interview minority candidates for positions to adhere to an informal policy promoting diversity but noticed that the candidates were often interviewing for jobs that had been promised to someone else.

Bruno says that he was fired last summer after telling his superiors that the interviews were "inappropriate" and "ethically and morally wrong."

The Times reported that Bruno was one of seven current and former Wells Fargo employees who say they were instructed to interview "diverse" candidates for positions even if the decision had already been made to hire a different candidate.

Raschelle Burton, a Wells Fargo spokeswoman, said "To the extent that individual employees are engaging in the behavior as described by The New York Times, we do not tolerate it," Raschelle Burton, a Wells Fargo spokeswoman, told the Times.

In a statement to Fox News Digital, Wells Fargo said that it could not verify Bruno's claim.

"We researched all specific claims the reporter shared with us in...

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