March 2018 UPDATE–See this for update. Cotter suspended and fined for excessive trading. UPDATE JULY 2016-Customer of former NEXT Financial Group broker Joseph L. Cotter brings complaint alleging $625,000 damages.…
read moreApril 1, 2016- Toms River, New Jersey FINRA records report that NEXT Financial Group stockbroker George W. Cole has been named in a customer complaint alleging that advice given by Cole…
read moreApril 1, 2016-Snohomish, WA In 2013 Brian Brunhaver, a former stock broker with LPL Financial, was sanctioned the Washington State Securities regulators for the sale of non publicly traded real…
read moreBoston, MA In December 2015, a FINRA arbitration panel awarded a former customer of Morgan Stanley Smith Barney Broker Justin Amaral over $1 million, which included over $500,000 in punitive…
read moreMarch 30, 2016 The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission charged Daniel Rivera and his brother Matthew Rivera, and their company, with a $2.7 million Ponzi scheme targeting elderly and unsophisticated…
read moreNovember 2019 Update The FINRA records of Alan Z. Appelbaum , a stockbroker who was last employed by Aegis Capital , disclose 3 regulatory events, 4 pending customer disputes and 9 prior customer disputes. The…
read moreOctober 19, 2015 Former Coastal Equities broker Michael Donnelly of Lecanto, Florida, admitting defrauding his clients and to disgorge over $2.2 million. In addition he consented to an SEC order…
read moreSeptember 2019 FINRA records disclose that former Garden State Securities stockbroker Mark A. Lisser has two pending customer disputes , 5 prior customer disputes and a termination from employment. FINRA…
read morehttp://blog.rexsecuritieslaw.com/2018/03/23/raymond-j-pirrello-jr-churning-investigation/ UPDATE July 2016–Pirrello named in insider trading complaint filed by the Securities and Exchange commission. See this for details. UPDATE June 2016-Former Garden State Securities stock broker Raymond J. Pirrello…
read moreUPDATE OCTOBER 2017–Dwarka Persaud Suspended-In August 2017 FINRA suspended Persaud for 18 months to resolve allegations that he violated the terms of a heightened supervision agreement which he and his…
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