Although he already looks like toast, he's toast. The FBI has been working thru the SEC to pursue criminal charges. A Wells notice just gives you a chance to respond before formal charges are brought upon you. By the time you get one, they know you did something wrong and are just letting you know they know for sure. This is more than his sale of $145mm of Countrywide stock before it crashed. FBI is pursuing fraud charges, which will in fact put him in the big house.