Wells Fargo Bank, N.A.
Lobbying client
Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. is the primary bank subsidiary of Wells Fargo and Company and the legal entity that directly holds city contracts and conducts the bank's municipal banking operations. New York City restricted it from new city deposit accounts in 2017, following a fraudulent fake-accounts scandal, and again in 2022, following documented racial disparities in mortgage lending; with the Federal Reserve lifting its asset cap on Wells Fargo in March 2026, the bank has filed 29 disclosures since 2024 lobbying Council Speaker Adrienne Adams through Greenberg Traurig on government relations and financial services procurement.
- Council members lobbied
- 4
- Filings (since 2024)
- 29
- Lobbying compensation (since 2024)
- $196,000
- Industry (per city contracts)
- Standardized Services
- City contracts (active)
- $131,086,732 · 5 contracts
- Awarded all-time
- $175,058,609 · 18 since 2003, incl. expired
- Paid to date
- $157,403,774
- Won without a fresh bid
- 80% of contract value · $139,505,215 · 7 contracts
- Based in
- New York, NY
Part of
- Wells Fargo Corporate family
Lobbied these council members
- Linda Lee Council Member, District 23 (Queens)
- Shahana K. Hanif Council Member, District 39 (Brooklyn)
- Julie Menin Council Member, District 5 (Manhattan)
Represented by lobbyist firms
- Greenberg Traurig, LLP Lobbyist firm
Holds contracts at
- Department of Finance City agency
- Office of the Comptroller City agency
Funded by these agencies
- Debt Service City agency
- Department of Finance City agency
Lobbied former members
Members who have since left their seat
- Adrienne Adams
What they lobbied on
subjects from their filings
- Procurement - Government relations advice as it relates to Wells Fargo
- Procurement - Offering of Financial/Investment Services
City contracts
Registered city contracts, largest first by current contract value (not amount spent): running now, then registered to start later, then ended. Totals count every registered contract. Each line shows its Checkbook contract ID. The tag on each row is how it was awarded (“no-bid” = non-competitive).
- PAY FIXED RATE IN EXCHANGE FOR CITY'S VARIABLE RATE PAYMENT Office of the Comptroller · CT101520111442676 $123,545,633
- assigned from 20080030244 (Wachovia) Office of the Comptroller · CT101520111412739 $2,433,049
- TO RETAIN MARKETING AGENTS SERVICES FOR NYC BONDS Office of the Comptroller · CT101520131412444 $2,237,400
- assigned from 20080014040 (Wachovia) Office of the Comptroller · CT101520111412740 $1,449,450
- FOR NYC GO BONDS FY 2012, SERIES G, SUBSERIES G-5 Office of the Comptroller · CT101520121441930 $1,421,200
- Bank Deposit Svc for Summons Payments Mailed to DOF Department of Finance · CT183620121431983 · ended 2019 $9,222,239
- CITYWIDE LOCKBOX SERVICES Department of Finance · MMA183620156201471 · ended 2020 $6,339,912
- Business and Excise Tax Lockbox Services Department of Finance · CT183620131429810 · ended 2020 $5,407,253
- Amendment to Add Additional Real Estate Tax Processing Svcs Department of Finance · CT183620121414581 · ended 2016 $4,961,645
- assigned from 20080030240 (Wachovia) Office of the Comptroller · CT101520111412741 · ended 2014 $4,863,452
Largest payments, by purpose
The organization's largest individual city payments (roughly $25,000 and up), grouped by purpose, to show what recent money was for. This is NOT a total — smaller payments aren't listed; see “Paid to date” above for the complete amount paid against its contracts. Fiscal years 2020 and later.
- PAY FIXED RATE IN EXCHANGE FOR CITY'S VARIABLE RATE PAYMENT Debt Service · FY2022 · 2 payments $11,090,541
- PAY FIXED RATE IN EXCHANGE FOR CITY'S VARIABLE RATE PAYMENT Debt Service · FY2021 · 3 payments $10,864,812
- PAY FIXED RATE IN EXCHANGE FOR CITY'S VARIABLE RATE PAYMENT Debt Service · FY2023 · 2 payments $10,310,579
- PAY FIXED RATE IN EXCHANGE FOR CITY'S VARIABLE RATE PAYMENT Debt Service · FY2020 · 2 payments $9,626,041
- Business and Excise Tax Lockbox Services Department of Finance · FY2020 · 7 payments $382,861
Where their influence converges
Outside interests connected to this official through more than one independent channel — drawn straight from the records the rest of the site already shows. “Lobbied them” = a lobbying filing that named the member. “Outside spending” = an independent-expenditure committee the interest funds spent in
- Linda Lee It lobbied them; it holds contracts at 1 agency in their committees' jurisdiction