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According to FINRA Disciplinary actions for August 2017, 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:

NAME FORMER EMPLOYERS
  Chad Michael Anderson   Farmers Financial Solutions, LLC
  Nicolas Esteban Arango   Joseph Stone Capital LLC
  Rockwell Global Capital LLC
  Leonardo S. Araujo   TD Ameritrade, Inc.
  Edward Jones
  Michael Biggs   Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Inc
  J.P. Morgan Securities LLC
  Steven Eugene Bonner   Principal Securities, Inc.
  Princor Financial Services Corp
  Thomas Joseph Borruso   LPL Financial LLC
  Rockwell Global Capital, LLC
  Shawn Evan Burns   Salomon Whitney Financial
  Cape Securities Inc.
  Brian M. Cain   Edward Jones
  Primevest Financial Services, Inc.
  Jaime Renato Cerda  
  Steven Gary Dash    Hallmark Investments, Inc.
  GunnAllen Financial, Inc.
  Diane Lee Dubshinski   Cape Securities Inc.
  1st Discount Brokerage, Inc.
  Christopher Anthony Fernan   Salomon Whitney Financial
  Rockwell Global Capital LLC
  Mark Joseph Flanagan   Citigroup Global Markets Inc.
  Wells Fargo Advisors, LLC
  Yohandy Gonzalez   J.P. Morgan Securities LLC
  AXA Advisors, LLC
  Maria Cecilia Yumang Hoason   J.P. Morgan Securities LLC
  Bettye Clements Hays   Principal Securities, Inc.
  MetLife Securities Inc.
  David Travis Hicks III   Allstate Financial Services, LLC
  David Russell Kondracke   Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Inc
  Advest, Inc.
  Issei Kubota   Citigroup Global Markets Inc.
  Danielle Lamb  
  Shawn Brett Larkin   Fidelity Brokerage Services LLC
  Dale Anne Luce   RBC Capital Markets, LLC
  UBS Financial Services Inc.
  Jacob Richard Luithle   Pruco Securities, LLC
  NYLife Securities LLC
  Susan V. Magann  
  Kenneth P. Mulvaney   MHA Financial Corp
  Sharon Theresa Noonan   Allstate Financial Services, LLC
  Prudential Securities Inc
  Lawrence Lee Olivas, Jr.   Wells Fargo Advisors, LLC
  Marc Harold Pearl   Wells Fargo Advisors, LLC
  LPL Financial LLC
  Gerald Edward Peterson   Farmers Financial Solutions, LLC
  Douglas A. Rabess   NYLife Securities LLC
  Christopher Peter Rose   State Farm VP Management Corp.
  Florence Santiago  
  Matthew Patrick Seemann   Wells Fargo Clearing Services, LLC
  Morgan Stanley Smith Barney
  Elizabeth Eunyung Skillman   LPL Financial LLC
  TD Ameritrade, Inc.
  Scott Ellis Stacke   William Blair & Company LLC
  Jon William Stagnone   Fidelity Brokerage Services LLC
  State Street Research Investment Services, Inc.
  Nancy Todd  
  Robert C. Tsai   E*Trade Securities LLC
  TD Ameritrade, Inc.

Silver Law Group represents investors in securities and investment fraud cases through FINRA arbitration or court.  Our lawyers are admitted to practice in New York and Florida and represent investors nationwide in securities arbitration to help recover investment losses due to stockbroker misconduct.  If you have any questions about how your account has been handled, call to speak with an experienced securities attorney. Most cases handled on a contingent fee basis meaning that you do not pay legal fees unless we are successful.

According to FINRA Disciplinary actions for August 2017, the following individuals were suspended from FINRA for failing to comply with a FINRA arbitration award or settlement agreement pursuant to FINRA rules:

NAME FORMER EMPLOYERS
  Clifford Eugene Alexander III   Summit Brokerage Services, Inc.
  Cantella & Co., Inc.
  Steven Preston Alexander   Citizens Securities, Inc.
  CUNA Brokerage Services, Inc.
  Jason Edward Anderson   Wilbanks Securities, Inc.
  Impact Financial Consulting, LLC
  Lawrence Allen Banks   PFS Investments Inc.
  EKN Financial Services Inc.
  Chad Ryan Barancyk   SII Investments, Inc.
  First Allied Securities, Inc.
  Jimmie Dean Canole   LaSalle St. Securities, LLC
  Brewer Financial Services, LLC
  Jeremiah Jens Charlson   Wells Fargo Advisors, LLC
  Edward Jones
  Matthew DiGregorio   Aegis Capital Corp.
  J.D. Nicholas & Associates, Inc.
  Philip Orezio Fatta   Spartan Capital Securities, LLC
  Blackook Capital, LLC
  Thomas M. Fayad   Oppenheimer & Co. Inc.
  UBS Financial Services Inc.
  Jeanne Michelle Fisher   Summit Brokerage Services, Inc.
  Cantella & Co., Inc.
  Gregory Flemming Jr.   Salomon Whitney Financial
  Rockwell Global Capital LLC
  Robert Furciato, Jr.   Ameriprise Financial Services, Inc.
  Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Inc.
  Michael Dennis Hampton   LPL Financial LLC
  Ameriprise Financial Services, Inc.
  Jeffrey Scott Ickes   Ameriprise Financial Services, Inc.
  Morgan Stanley Smith Barney
  Omar Tyrone Jeanty   Spartan Capital Securities, LLC
  Primary Capital, LLC
  Erik Robert Kneip   LPL Financial LLC
  Stratos Wealth Partners
  Jerome Scott Krause   First Heartland Capital, Inc.
  Thrivent Investment Management Inc.
  Michael Scott Lavolpe   Meyers Associates, L.P.
  David William Locy   Brookstone Securities, Inc.
  Archer Alexander Securities Corporation
  Elvin J. Lopez   Legend Securities, Inc.
  Worden Capital Management LLC
  Mary Helen Caprice Mallett   Independent Financial Group
  Morgan Stanley Smith Barney
  Devon Coulin McLean   Questar Capital Corporation
  USAllianz Securities, Inc.
  James William Mewborn   Principal Securities, Inc.
  Cambridge Investment Research, Inc.
  Clifford Paul Murray, M.D.   Newport Coast Securities, Inc.
  Empire Asset Management Company
  Gary Walter Oliphant   Ameriprise Financial Services, Inc.
  Ameriprise Advisor Services, inc.
  Clifford Alan Schwartz   Westpark Capital, Inc.
  The GMs Group , LLC
  Michael James Terry   Ameriprise Financial Services, Inc.
  Suntrust Investment Services, Inc.
  Antony Lee Turbeville   Brookstone Securities, Inc.
  Archer Alexander Securities Corporation
  Douglas Stuart Veitch, Sr.   Wilbanks Securities, Inc.
  Woodbury Financial Services, Inc.
  Everett Scoville Walker, Jr.
  Patrick Justin White, Sr.   Laidlaw & Company (UK) Ltd.
  BlackBook Capital LLC
  John Frederick Wolle   Sinclair & Company, LLC
  54 Freedom Securities Inc.

Silver Law Group represents investors in securities and investment fraud cases through FINRA arbitration or court.  Our lawyers are admitted to practice in New York and Florida and represent investors nationwide in securities arbitration to help recover investment losses due to stockbroker misconduct.  If you have any questions about how your account has been handled, call to speak with an experienced securities attorney. Most cases handled on a contingent fee basis meaning that you do not pay legal fees unless we are successful.

According to FINRA Disciplinary actions for August 2017, the following individuals were barred 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:

NAME FORMER EMPLOYERS
  Dimitris Alifragis  
  Alonza Barnett, Jr.   Ameritas Investment Corp.
  Dachtler Wealth Management
  Amalia Bocanegra  
  Christopher Canale  
  Nenita Blas Causing   Transamerica Financial Advisors, Inc.
  World Group Securities, Inc.
  Wilson Chung   J.P. Morgan Securities LLC
  Kenneth Paul Collins, Jr.   Union Capital Company
  Money Concepts Capital Corp
  Laura Johnson Craven   State Farm VP Management Corp.
  Sebastian Joshua Dimond   Vanguard Marketing Corporation
  Wells Fargo Investments, LLC
  Edwin Waite Duguie, Jr.  
  Megan Eilers   Wells Fargo Advisors, LLC
  First Clearing, LLC
  Felicia Anne Figueroa  
  Nicholas C. Gallo   Cova Capital Partners LLC
  Legend Securities, Inc.
  David Monroe Hawkes   Transamerica Financial Advisors, Inc.
  World Group Securities, Inc.
  Richard Michael Jones    NYLife Securities LLC
  Israel Jurkevicz   J.P. Morgan Securities LLC
  Tika Justice  
  Jeffrey Timothy Kluge   Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Inc
  John Bradford Leonard   Wells Fargo Advisors
  Wachovia Securities, LLC
  Jonathan Ryan Levano   J.P. Morgan Securities LLC
  Christopher Russell McNamee   Dakota Securities International, Inc,
  Sterling Financial Investment Group , Inc.
  Rachel Marie Millyard   Infinex Investments, Inc.
  Essex National Securities, LLC
  Shayne Arlington Nelson   J.P. Morgan Securities LLC
  David Ng   Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Inc
  Wells Fargo Securities, LLC
  Darian Curtis Norris   Wells Fargo Advisors, LLC
  Northwestern Mutual Investment Services, LLC
  Patrick John O’Brien   Transamerica Financial Advisors, Inc.
  World Group Securities, Inc.
  Vivien Li Ching Ong   J.P. Morgan Securities LLC
  Olateju Samson Oyeniyi  
  Robert A. Perconte   Summit Brokerage Services, Inc.
  Ameriprise Financial Services, Inc.
  Edward Daniel Prudencio   BBVA Securities Inc.
  J.P. Morgan Securities LLC
  Raymond Jesus Rodriguez  
  William Edward Roe   Park Avenue Securities LLC
  Crowell, Weedon & Co.
  Nicholas Adel Somo   J.P. Morgan Securities LLC
  Michael Allen Sparks   J.J.B. Hillard, W.L. Lyons, LLC
  DMG Securities, Inc.
  Alec Michael Tracy   J.P. Morgan Securities LLC
  MMC Securities Crop.
  Justin Martin West   J.P. Morgan Securities LLC

Silver Law Group represents investors in securities and investment fraud cases through FINRA arbitration or court.  Our lawyers are admitted to practice in New York and Florida and represent investors nationwide in securities arbitration to help recover investment losses due to stockbroker misconduct.  If you have any questions about how your account has been handled, call to speak with an experienced securities attorney. Most cases handled on a contingent fee basis meaning that you do not pay legal fees unless we are successful.

According to FINRA Disciplinary actions for July 2017, the following individuals were suspended from FINRA for failing to comply with a FINRA arbitration award or settlement agreement pursuant to FINRA rules:

NAME FORMER EMPLOYERS
  Thomas Michael DiLello, Jr.   LPL Financial LLC
  Atlantic Capital Advisors
  Niaz Elmazi   Global Arena Capital Corp
  HFP Capital Markets LLC
  James Benjamin Fellus   Spencer-Winston Securities Corporation
  Nexlend Capital Partners
  Nancy Putnam Griffith   Wells Fargo Advisors, LLC
  Edward Jones
  Brian Joseph Hagerman   Global Arena Capital Corp
  Equities Trading Corp
  Justin Linwood Hendrick   Suntrust Investment Services, Inc.
  First Citizens Investor Services, Inc.
  Robert Joseph Kerrigan, Sr.   First Financial Equity Corporation
  Personal Wealth Mgmt Group, Inc.
  Brent Morgan Porges   Meyers Associates, LP
  Newbridge Securities Corporation
  Scott Paul Strochak   Morgan Stanley
  Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Inc.

Silver Law Group represents investors in securities and investment fraud cases through FINRA arbitration or court.  Our lawyers are admitted to practice in New York and Florida and represent investors nationwide in securities arbitration to help recover investment losses due to stockbroker misconduct.  If you have any questions about how your account has been handled, call to speak with an experienced securities attorney. Most cases handled on a contingent fee basis meaning that you do not pay legal fees unless we are successful.

According to FINRA Disciplinary actions for July 2017, the following individuals were barred 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:

NAME FORMER EMPLOYERS
  Ricardo Alonzo, Jr.
  Jared Cody Artho   JP Morgan Securities LLC
  Michael W. Benjamin   State Farm VP Management Corp
  David William Beutler   Wells Fargo Advisors, LLC
  Prudential Securities Inc
  Amanda Yvetter Burnett   Invest Financial Corporation
  Joni Carrera
  Charles Maxwell Cox   Wells Fargo Advisors, LLC
  Chase Investment Services Corp
  Aryton Pierce Haddad   TD Ameritrade, Inc.
  E*Trade Securities LLC
  Scott William Hartman   Morgan Stanley
  Encore Financial Advisors, LLC
  Chad Daniel Hornaday   AXA Advisors, LLC
  National Planning Corporation
  John James Joseph Labrie   JP Morgan Securities LLC
  Chase Investment Services Corp
  Derek James Longmuir   Advisors Asset Management, Inc.
  First Trust Portfolios LP
  Elijah Robert Maldonado   JP Morgan Securities LLC
  Chase Investment Services Corp.
  David K. Mallet   Wunderlich Securities, Inc.
  Stephens Inc.
  Raymond Edward Martin
  Richard Muzquiz Jr.   JP Morgan Securities LLC
  Chase Investment Services Corp
  Andrew Michael Pritchard   Pruco Securities, LLC
  Michael Jason Ripper   International Assets Advisory, LLC
  LPL Financial LLC
  Teresita Santos Santos   Transamerica Financial Advisors, Inc.
  World Group Securities, Inc.
  Bimal Kishore Shah   Independent Financial Group, LLC
  WRP Investments Inc.
  Cory Ward Taylor   Ameriprise Financial Services, Inc.
  IDS Life Insurance Company
  Nathan Robert Trodahl   State Farm VP Management Corp.
  Xin Wang   JP Morgan Securities LLC
  Daniel L. Waters   Fidelity Brokerage Services LLC
  Sherman Marcel White   Wayne Hummer Investments LLC
  US Bancorp Investments, Inc.
  Brian Scot Winchester   Securities America, Inc.
  Sunset Financial Services, Inc.
  Matthew Edward Witkowski   Vanguard Marketing Corporation
  Edward Jones
  William Brian Wyman   Ameriprise Financial Services, Inc.
  Royal Alliance Associates, Inc.
  James Seokhoon Yoon   JP Morgan Securities LLC

Silver Law Group represents investors in securities and investment fraud cases through FINRA arbitration or court.  Our lawyers are admitted to practice in New York and Florida and represent investors nationwide in securities arbitration to help recover investment losses due to stockbroker misconduct.  If you have any questions about how your account has been handled, call to speak with an experienced securities attorney. Most cases handled on a contingent fee basis meaning that you do not pay legal fees unless we are successful.

The New Jersey Bureau of Securities has levied a large fine against LPL Financial LLC, one of the largest independent broker-dealer in the United States. The $950,000 fine also requires LPL to donate $25,000 to the New Jersey state investor education fund. The Bureau of Securities imposed these judgments against LPL for allegedly conducting unsuitable sales of non-traded real estate investment trusts and business development companies.

The Bureau on its settlement with LPL states; “This substantial settlement with LPL Financial sends a message that the securities industry cannot sell unsuitable investments to clients who are unlikely to be able to bear the financial risks,” said Attorney General Christopher S. Porrino. “The standards governing sales of alternative investments are in place to protect investors, and the Bureau will take action when these standards are ignored.”

Generally, Federal statues regulate suitability standards and limit the sale of certain alternative investments based on a complex calculation that reflects a client’s liquid net worth, or a mixture of a client’s income and net worth and other factors. New Jersey also limits the maximum total ratio of alternative investments held by an individual client’s portfolio to not exceed 10 percent of an investor’s complete portfolio.

Leon Vaccarelli Fined and Sanctioned by FINRA on silverlaw.comSilver Law Group is investigating Kingwood, Texas-based brokerage firm D.H. Hill Securities, LLLP (CRD# 41528) (“D.H. Hill”) after FINRA sanctioned the firm for its conduct concerning the firm’s role as underwriter of a real estate investment trust (“REIT”).

D.H. Hill Securities Enters into a Settlement with FINRA

D.H. Hill entered into an Acceptance, Waiver & Consent (“AWC”), signed in November 2016, with FINRA.  The AWC alleged that, between February 2012 through April 2013, D.H. Hill participated as a dealer manager of a REIT offering, replacing another firm in the process.  When D.H. Hill replaced the previous brokerage firm, it failed to seek or obtain authorization from FINRA’s Corporate Financing Department to proceed with the offering, a requirement under FINRA Rule 5110.

Silver Law Group is investigating former New York-based Joseph Stone Capital L.L.C. (CRD# 159744) broker David G. Menashe (CRD# 5727269) after the State of Montana sanctioned him for excessive and unauthorized trading.

Menashe’s CRD Report and the Montana Regulatory Decision

According to Menashe’s FINRA BrokerCheck report, the Office of the Commissioner of Securities and Insurance for Montana sanctioned both Joseph Stone and Menashe. According to the Montana Order, Montana required Joseph Stone to pay $30,000 in restitution with Menashe contributing half of that amount.

According to FINRA Disciplinary actions for June 2017, the following individuals were barred 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:

NAME FORMER EMPLOYERS
  Miguel Angel Aguilar   MML Investors Services, LLC
  Northwestern Mutual Investment Services, LLC
  Steve Preston Alexander   Citizens Securities, Inc.
  CUNA Brokerage Services, Inc.
  Amadou Bah   Maxim Group LLC
  Garden State Securities, Inc.
  John W. Boals   Allstate Financial Services,, LLC
  Lionel Brooks Jr.   Merrill Lynch, Pierce Fenner & Smith Inc.
  Oppenheimer & Co. Inc.
  Sandra Canaba   LPL Financial LLC
  Chase Investment Services Corp.
  Barry Franklin Connell   Morgan Stanley
  UBS Financial Services Inc.
  Pamela A. Daniels
  Charles Greer Denormandie III   Commonwealth Financial Network
  Ameriprise Financial Services, Inc.
  Leah Rose Fox-Greenberg
  Jennifer Marie Gonzalez
  Matthew J. Houtz   Raymond James & Associates, Inc.
  Barry Jin   Spartan Capital Securities, LLC
  Lampert Capital Markets, Inc.
  Jennifer Rebecca Johnson   Ameriprise Financial Services, Inc.
  Edward Jones
  Martin Jones   Goldman Sachs & Co.
  Adam Anthony Jurczyk   J.P. Morgan Securities LLC
  Alexander Lewis   Northwestern Mutual Investment Services, LLVC
  Quinn Alexander McClendon   Citizens Securities, Inc.
  Mutual of Omaha Investor Services, Inc.
  Luan Quoc Nguyen   Pruco Securities, LLC
  Timothy John Reed   Suntrust Investment Services, Inc.
  Wells Fargo Advisors, LLC
  Steven Barry Sitzer   Dinosaur Securities, LLC
  Spartan Capital Securities, LLC
  Raynard Keshav Sookdial   PFS Investments Inc.
  Quynh Ngoc Tran   JP Morgan Securities LLC
  Kevin Jin Yi   Voya Financial Advisors, Inc.
  Young Min Yun

Silver Law Group represents investors in securities and investment fraud cases through FINRA arbitration or court.  Our lawyers are admitted to practice in New York and Florida and represent investors nationwide in securities arbitration to help recover investment losses due to stockbroker misconduct.  If you have any questions about how your account has been handled, call to speak with an experienced securities attorney. Most cases handled on a contingent fee basis meaning that you do not pay legal fees unless we are successful.

According to FINRA Disciplinary actions for June 2017, the following individuals were suspended from FINRA for failing to comply with a FINRA arbitration award or settlement agreement pursuant to FINRA rules:

NAME FORMER EMPLOYERS
  Kimberly Aylesworth   Morgan Stanley
  Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Inc.
  Roger Ericson Bell   UBS Financial Services Inc.
  Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Inc.
  Reuven Blank   Raymond James & Associates, Inc.
  Morgan Keegan & Company, Inc.
  Patrick Ryan Bray   Newbridge Securities Corporation
  UBS Financial Services Inc.
  Richard Lyndon Brown   Arive Capital Markets
  Chelsea Financial Services
  Brian Richardson Castillo   Morgan Stanley
  Silver Oak Wealth Management
  Daniel Harry Curkan   Sigma Financial Corporation
  Morgan Stanley
  Donald Gene Dewaay Jr.   Dewaay Financial Network, LLC
  VSR Financial Services, Inc.
  Andrew Goodman   Jackson National Life Distributors LLC
  Wells Fargo Advisors, LLC
  Christopher Randall Johnson   Morgan Stanley
  UBS Financial Services Inc.
  Jose A. Landin Jr.   BBVA Securities Inc.
  Wells Fargo Advisors, LLC
  Adam Benjamin Mayfield   Cetera Advisor Networks LLC
  Suntrust Investment Services, Inc.
  Jason Todd Meil   Janney Montgomery Scott LLC
  Morgan Stanley
  Clifford Todd Morgan   Advanced Planning Securities, Inc
  Nations Financial Group, Inc.
  Manuel Tomas Paredes   Spartan Capital Securities, LLC
  National Securities Corporation
  Marc Harold Pearl   Wells Fargo Advisors, LLC
  LPL Financial LLC
  Casey Thomas Rodriguez   Arive Capital Markets
  Chelsea Financial Services
  David Aaron Seigerman   Janney Montgomery Scott LLC
  Morgan Stanley
  Jeffery Hunter Smith   Wells Fargo Advisors LLC
  Morgan Stanley
  Labron Manosa Toles   Rothschild Lieberman LLC
  Newport Coast Securities, Inc.
  Steven Michael Wisniewski   Newbridge Securities Corp
  Cambridge Investment Research, Inc.

Silver Law Group represents investors in securities and investment fraud cases through FINRA arbitration or court.  Our lawyers are admitted to practice in New York and Florida and represent investors nationwide in securities arbitration to help recover investment losses due to stockbroker misconduct.  If you have any questions about how your account has been handled, call to speak with an experienced securities attorney. Most cases handled on a contingent fee basis meaning that you do not pay legal fees unless we are successful.

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