Articles Posted in FINRA Arbitration

Allegations include elder financial fraud, misappropriation of funds and unsuitable recommendations Michael Talin, a former broker associated with Woodbury Financial Services, has been barred from the securities industry by FINRA after failing to cooperate with agency investigators. An investigation was launched after customers alleged that he misappropriated and converted more…

Broker was also fined $15,000 for accepting trade orders she was not licensed to accept Tiffany Peacock-Asakawa was suspended from practicing in the securities industry for 10 months in August, following allegations that she was involved in false representation and the falsification of records of trade orders at her member…

Allegations include conversion of funds from non-securities customer account After thirteen years in the securities industry, Jeffrey Pierce has been permanently barred from practicing in the securities industry in any capacity. During his career, Pierce accumulated eleven disclosure events, including regulatory events, a criminal event, customer disputes and two employer…

FINRA arbitration panel finds bank liable in alleged fraud claim As Puerto Rico’s financial struggles continue, a FINRA arbitration panel awarded three claimants $3M in an alleged fraud claim against UBS Financial Services in early September. According to Law360.com, the claimants alleged that the bank committed fraud relating to closed-end…

Both brokers barred following termination from same firm One broker had over 30 years’ experience in the securities industry. One broker had only one year of experience in the securities industry. Yet both brokers were terminated from LPL Financial LLC within a month of each other. According to the FINRA…

Morgan Stanley has found itself on the wrong end of a Florida FINRA arbitration for claimed damages of $400 million. Lynnda Speer, the widow of Home Shopping Network (HSN) co-founder Roy M. Speer, filed the claim against Morgan Stanley and one of its branch managers and investment advisers. Due to…

According to the Financial Fraud Research Center, Americans lose $50 billion each year to fraud. Further, research funded by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Education Foundation (Foundation) discovered that roughly 80 percent of consumers over the age of 40 said they had been solicited for a potentially fraudulent scheme. In…

A customer of Wells Fargo Advisors filed a FINRA complaint against Wells Fargo to seek the money he lost when his adviser invested his monies in “F-Squared Investments.”  The customer’s claim is that Wells Fargo failed to supervise his adviser properly, and also did not do the required due diligence…

The Silver Law Group has filed a securities arbitration claim before the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (“FINRA”) on behalf of a family and a family business from South America alleging, among other things, that Dawson James failed to properly supervise one of its registered representatives, permitted an unsuitable investment strategy…

According to FINRA, Thomas Tedeschi has recently been named in a securities arbitration lawsuit against him and his former employer, Aegis Capital Corp., for making unsuitable investments, unauthorized trades, misrepresentations and excessive trading (churning), among other claims.  The assertions against him involve speculative securities that include penny stocks and Exchange…