FINRA Suspends Broker Jonathan Iraggi For Compliance Issue

Jonathan William Iraggi (CRD #5857254) is a former registered broker whose last employer was National Securities Corporation (CRD #7569) of Morganville, NJ. His previous employers include Garden State Securities, Inc. (CRD #10083) of Red Bank, NJ, Spartan Capital Securities, LLC (CRD #146251) and Portfolio Advisors Alliance, Inc. (CRD #101680) of New York, NY.  No current employment information is available. He has been in the industry since 2011.

Iraggi is the subject of four disclosures, the most recent a disciplinary action by FINRA, as well as one employment discharge and two denied customer disputes. In the FINRA action, filed on 8/23/2018, Iraggi failed to notify his employer firm, Garden State Securities, that he had verbal authorization to exercise discretion in three customer accounts. Iraggi did not obtain written authorization from the clients, nor written authorization from the firm to service the accounts on a discretionary basis.

Later, when filling out an annual compliance questionnaire in December of 2016, Iraggi failed to disclose to the firm that he had exercised discretion with a customer’s account, answering “no” when he actually had. Iraggi was fined $5,000 and a 30-day suspension from any association with a FINRA member firm, consented to the findings and signed a letter of Acceptance, Waiver & Consent (AWC.)

Iraggi was permitted to resign on 7/11/2017 by Garden State Securities after client allegations of unauthorized trading. However, a customer dispute filed on the same day requesting $22,000 in damages for the unauthorized trading was actually denied by the firm.

On 1/2/2015, a second customer dispute was filed, also alleging unauthorized trading, and requesting damages of $8,814.00. However, this dispute was also denied after the firm’s investigation determined that the trading was, indeed authorized, and there was no wrongdoing.

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