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Posted on Dec 2, 2018 By The Law Offices of Jonathan W. Evans & Associates
FINRA barred former Financial West Group (Los Angeles, CA) broker Sean J Waters for excessive trading in his elderly client's individual and IRA accounts with reckless disregard for his senior ...
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Posted on Nov 29, 2018 By The Law Offices of Jonathan W. Evans & Associates
FINRA barred broker Frank Roland Dietrich for his participation in a massive $1.2 billion Ponzi scheme related to investments in the Woodbridge Group of Companies, disciplining the former Quest ...
Continue reading "Frank Dietrich Cited for Selling $10.8 Million in Investments in Woodbridge Group of Companies Ponzi Scheme" »
Posted on Nov 27, 2018 By The Law Offices of Jonathan W. Evans & Associates
FINRA fined and suspended former JP Morgan (Culver City and Santa Monica, CA branches) broker Hector Villalta for engaging in an outside business activity without prior written notice to or approval ...
Continue reading "Terminated JP Morgan Broker Hector Villalta Sanctioned for Unapproved Outside Business Activity" »
Posted on Nov 23, 2018 By The Law Offices of Jonathan W. Evans & Associates
FINRA barred former National Securities Corporation (San Diego) broker Kyle Patrick Harrington for allegedly trying to obstruct FINRA and firm investigations into allegations that he converted ...
Continue reading "San Diego "Financial Whiz of Local Airwaves" Kyle Harrington Barred After Conversion, Undisclosed Private Securities Transaction Investigations" »
Posted on Nov 14, 2018 By The Law Offices of Jonathan W. Evans & Associates
Michael Scott Livermore's 23-year career with Merrill Lynch in Stockton, California came to an abrupt end earlier this year when the firm discharged him for failing to timely disclose reportable ...
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Posted on Nov 13, 2018 By The Law Offices of Jonathan W. Evans & Associates
FINRA fined Luke Andrew Powell for participating in private securities transactions totaling $350,000 without providing proper written notice to his firm, Flying Cloud Securities of San Francisco, ...
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Posted on Nov 6, 2018 By The Law Offices of Jonathan W. Evans & Associates
FINRA fined and suspended Michael Eugene Heath, formerly of First Allied Securities of Ladera Ranch, California, for using an unapproved, personal e-mail account to communicate with customers about ...
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Posted on Nov 3, 2018 By The Law Offices of Jonathan W. Evans & Associates
The US District Court for Colorado sentenced former LPL Financial representative Sonya Delora Camarco to 20 years in prison for stealing several millions of dollars from clients between 2013 and 2017 ...
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Posted on Nov 2, 2018 By The Law Offices of Jonathan W. Evans & Associates
FINRA barred former Signator Investors Inc. broker David Carl Ferwerda for failing to cooperate with its investigation into the $1.2 billion Ponzi scheme concerning the Woodbridge Group of Companies, ...
Continue reading "David Ferwerda Barred in Woodbridge Ponzi Scheme, 1 Global Capital Fraud Investigation" »
Posted on Oct 24, 2018 By The Law Offices of Jonathan W. Evans & Associates
FINRA barred John Scott Simoncic, formerly of Financial West Group (Reno, Nevada and San Diego, California) and Securities America (Solana Beach, CA), for churning customer accounts, engaging in ...
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Posted on Oct 15, 2018 By The Law Offices of Jonathan W. Evans & Associates
FINRA barred Charla Cynthia Kabana after she refused to cooperate with an investigation into the circumstances surrounding her termination from LPL Financial of Huntington Beach, CA, in which the firm ...
Continue reading "Charla Kabana Barred During Investigation into Variable Annuity Business at LPL Financial" »
Posted on Oct 11, 2018 By The Law Offices of Jonathan W. Evans & Associates
FINRA fined and suspended John-Aaron Lenhert, formerly of Morgan Stanley in Laguna Niguel, California, for borrowing funds from multiple customers without approval and for related misrepresentations, ...
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Posted on Oct 10, 2018 By The Law Offices of Jonathan W. Evans & Associates
FINRA fined and suspended former Ameritas Investment Corp. broker Daniel K Kittner for effecting approximately 700 trades in six accounts without first contacting his customers. The findings indicate ...
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Posted on Sep 29, 2018 By The Law Offices of Jonathan W. Evans & Associates
FINRA fined and suspended former Ameriprise Financial Services and Moors & Cabot, Inc broker Robert Charles Torcivia for improperly accepting and failing to disclose fiduciary and beneficiary ...
Continue reading "Robert Torcivia Disciplined Over Beneficiary Designations, Inheriting Money from Clients" »
Posted on Sep 21, 2018 By The Law Offices of Jonathan W. Evans & Associates
FINRA fined and suspended Southern California broker Ryan Alexander Logan, formerly of MML Investors Services in Newport Beach, for commission sharing with an unregistered person—his sales ...
Continue reading "FINRA Sanctions Ryan Logan for Commission Sharing After Unregistered Assistant Sold Variable Annuities Without a License" »
Posted on Sep 17, 2018 By The Law Offices of Jonathan W. Evans & Associates
Former Benjamin & Jerold Brokerage representative Juergen received a permanent bar from the securities industry after failing to cooperate with a FINRA investigation into allegations that he made ...
Continue reading "Uncooperative Juergen Weber (Unsuitable, Unauthorized Trades) and Benjamin S. Johnson (Failure to Report Liens) Barred" »
Posted on Sep 15, 2018 By The Law Offices of Jonathan W. Evans & Associates
FINRA barred former Stifel, Nicolaus & Company broker Stephen Thomas Hurtuk for failing to cooperate with an investigation into allegations that he made unsuitable recommendations to customers in ...
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Posted on Sep 11, 2018 By The Law Offices of Jonathan W. Evans & Associates
FINRA barred former HD Vest Investment Services brokers Jerry Davis Raines and Donna Lynn Barnard for failing to cooperate with staff investigating sales of promissory notes related to the Woodbridge ...
Continue reading "HD Vest Investment's Jerry Raines & Donna Barnard Barred in Ongoing Woodbridge Ponzi Scheme Investigation" »
Posted on Sep 10, 2018 By The Law Offices of Jonathan W. Evans & Associates
The Securities and Exchange Commission alleged Ladenburgh Thalmann Financial Services chairman and largest shareholder Phillip Frost and a handful of co-defendants with perpetrating a series of ...
Continue reading "Ladenburg Thalmann Financial Chairman Phillip Frost Charged with Fraud in Pump-and-Dump Penny Stock Scheme" »
Posted on Sep 7, 2018 By The Law Offices of Jonathan W. Evans & Associates
FINRA fined and suspended former Wells Fargo Advisors Financial Networks broker Richard Stephen Hughes for instructing an elderly client to lie about the commissions charged in short-term trading unit ...
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Posted on Aug 22, 2018 By The Law Offices of Jonathan W. Evans & Associates
The SEC censured Merrill Lynch and ordered the firm pay $8.9 million in fines, disgorgment and penalties after finding the firm violated the Advisers Act by failing to disclose a key conflict of ...
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Posted on Aug 14, 2018 By The Law Offices of Jonathan W. Evans & Associates
Founded in Boston and now based in Beverly Hills, California, StockCross Financial Services and its Los Angeles-based broker Peter Edward Cunningham stand accused of causing losses in customer ...
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Posted on Aug 7, 2018 By The Law Offices of Jonathan W. Evans & Associates
Former Purshe Kaplan Sterling Investments, Inc. compliance officer Toni Caiazzo Neff filed a lawsuit against her former employer, claiming that Purshe Kaplan fired her after she contacted a senior ...
Continue reading "Compliance Officer Claims Retaliation in Firing from Purshe Kaplan Sterling After Reporting Alt Investment Red Flags to FINRA" »
Posted on Jul 26, 2018 By The Law Offices of Jonathan W. Evans & Associates
FINRA fined four firms—National Planning Corporation, Investment Centers of America, SII Investments, and IFC Holdings aka INVEST Financial Corporation—a total of $1.7 million and ordered ...
Continue reading "National Planning Corp, Investment Centers of America, SII Investments and IFC Holdings Fined $1.7 Million, Ordered to Pay $6 Million in Restitution for Variable Annuity Sales Misconduct" »
Posted on Jul 24, 2018 By The Law Offices of Jonathan W. Evans & Associates
FINRA fined Royal Alliance Associates, FSC Securities Corporation, SagePoint Financial, and Woodbury Financial a total of $1 million for failing to establish and maintain adequate supervisory systems ...
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