Wells Fargo has been accused of fraud over its role in underwriting a $75 million municipal bond deal for a video game company in Rhode Island that eventually went bankrupt, leaving taxpayers on the hook for the debt.

On Monday, the Securities and Exchange Commission charged Wells Fargo and the state agency that issued the bonds on behalf of 38 Studios, the now defunct video game start-up, with failing to disclose to investors the company’s true financial picture.

The state agency had agreed to borrow the money in the tax-exempt municipal market and then lend most of the proceeds to 38 Studios, whose chairman and majority shareholder was the former Red Sox pitching ace Curt Schilling.

By lending money to a private company, owned by a local sports hero, state officials had hoped to stimulate jobs and lure other businesses to relocate to Rhode Island, which had been hit particularly hard by the recession.