With the CEO of Equifax, U.S. Rep. Katie Porter whipped out a stack of documents as she called attention to the company’s court argument that a devastating 2017 data breach had not harmed any consumers.

With Tim Sloan, at the time the CEO of Wells Fargo, Porter came prepared with a poster board highlighting language in which the bank’s lawyers appeared to dismiss the executive’s statements about restoring consumer trust in the aftermath of the fraudulent account scandal. The poster board, featuring blown-up text from a court filing, displayed a line in which the lawyers described his past statements as “paradigmatic examples of non-actionable corporate puffery, on which no reasonable investor could rely.”

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