April 7, 2016-New York, NY The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) is the agency that licenses and regulates stockbrokers and brokerage firms. FINRA requires brokers and brokerage firms to report customer…
read moreJanuary 19, 2016-El Paso, Texas A Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) arbitration panel ordered stock brokerage firm EDI Financial, Inc. to pay a customer $273,606 in damages and attorney fees.…
read moreApril 1, 2016 Candace B. McLeod, 32, of Holt, FL, was sentenced to 75 months in Federal prison according to a release from the US Department of Justice. McLeod had…
read moreMay 2019 UPDATE- Dion Padilla/ AT&T Retirement Account investigation. See this for details. Original Post-April 4, 2016-San Antonio, Texas According to their website, The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA),…
read moreUPDATE SEPTEMBER 2016– Former NEXT Financial Group stockbroker, Tye Williams barred from the securities industry for failing to cooperate with regulatory investigation alleging theft of $1M. See this for more details. …
read moreMarch 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-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 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…
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