I’m trying to see OP’s correlation of Enron’s collapse to WF. I just don’t. Enron was at it’s simplest mismanagement and shady/illegal accounting. WF is mismanagement of how they lead, treat their employees and sc--w up customer care. The regulators are in WF’s business on the regular with oversight, constant fines and stern treatment, WF is clearly in the bottom bucket of the regulators “stack ranking” of banks. If WF goes bankrupt, not only will that show the regulators haven’t been auditing & paying attention properly to a known offender (WF) but it will also “force” another big bank to be then moved into the bottom stack ranking bucket and problem child place. In other words, there are more who go down with WF if WF goes down. I’m not saying it 100% can’t or won’t happen but to me the likelihood is low.
I do think CS knows he hasn’t truly accomplished anything of value at WF and now is desperately trying to parse off pieces of the bank in hopes he can give the receiver institutions a piece of the WF pie to increase their size and secure himself his next opportunity.