Articles Posted in Stockbroker Misconduct

According to FINRA Disciplinary actions for October 2021, the following individuals were suspended from FINRA and cannot currently work for a FINRA brokerage firm for failing to provide FINRA with information it requested or to keep information current with FINRA pursuant to FINRA rules. However, these individuals remain bound by…

Kenneth Welsh (Kenneth Andrews Welsh CRD:# 4657872) is a former registered broker and investment advisor whose last known employer was Wells Fargo Clearing Services, LLC (CRD#:19616) of Fairfield, New Jersey. Previously, he was employed with three divisions of Smith Barney (CRD#: 149777, 8209, and 7556), also of Fairfield. He has…

Marc Reda (Marc Augustus Reda CRD:#2757330) is a registered broker currently employed with SPARTAN CAPITAL SECURITIES, LLC (CRD# 146251) of New York, NY. His previous employers include First Standard Financial Company LLC (CRD#:168340) of Staten Island, NY, PHX Financial, Inc. (CRD#:144403) and Laidlaw & Company (UK) Ltd. (CRD#:119037) also of…

Daniel O’Neil and Douglas Szempruch, two brokers working for Aegis Capital Corp. (CRD#:15007) in Melville, NY, have faced disciplinary action FINRA after both were separately involved in improper activities. Daniel O’Neil (Daniel James O’Neil CRD#:1358245) is a former registered broker with Aegis, who discharged him on 7/29/2021 for failing to…

Paul Vizanko (Paul Warren Vizanko CRD:#2572222) is a former broker and investment advisor last employed with  Wells Fargo Clearing Services, LLC (CRD#:19616) of Duluth, MN. He was previously employed with Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated (CRD#:7691), also of Duluth, MN, Wells Fargo Investments, LLC (CRD#:10582) of Grand Rapids,…

The SEC announced that it has filed a temporary restraining order against Ron Harrison (Ron K. Harrison), a former registered broker and investment advisor (CRD#: 1785805) to freeze the assets of his company, Global Trading Institute, and his girlfriend since 2017, Irina Parfyonova. She is named as a relief defendant…

Adam Feierstein (Adam S Feierstein, CRD# 6033082) is a barred broker who was last registered with Proequities Inc and Woodbury Financial Services, Inc. in Redondo Beach, California. He had been in the industry since 2011. Woodbury has been the subject of recent arbitration claims by investors who were sold GPB…

Adam Belardino (Adam Gerard Belardino, CRD: #5221927) is a former registered broker and investment advisor whose last known employer was MML Investors Services, LLC (CRD#:10409) of Elmsford, New York. His previous employers were MSI Financial Services, Inc. (CRD#:14251), also of Elmsford, Metropolitan Life Insurance Company (CRD#:4095) of Iselin, New Jersey,…

John Edgar Simmons, Jr. (CRD: #4878890) is a former registered broker and insurance advisor whose last known employer was LPL Financial LLC (CRD#:6413) of Gulf Breeze, FL. He was previously employed with Investors Capital Corp. (CRD#:30613) of Pensacola, FL, LPL Financial in McMinnville, TN, and Edward Jones (CRD#:250), also of…

Jeffrey Warren (CRD:#2707969) is a former registered broker whose last known employer was Oppenheimer & Co. Inc. (CRD#:249) of Boca Raton, FL. He was previously employed with Wachovia Securities, LLC (CRD#:19616), also of Boca Raton, UBS Financial Services Inc. (CRD#:8174) of Weehawken, NJ, and Prudential Securities Incorporated (CRD#:7471) of New…