by Mike | Aug 31, 2015 | Securities Fraud
Here we go again. Responding to the latest round of claims against former Morgan Stanley broker Steven Mark Wyatt, a Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Inc. (FINRA) arbitration panel recently ordered Morgan Stanley to pay at least $2.4 million for unauthorized...
by Mike | Aug 3, 2015 | Securities Fraud
Indiana’s top-selling financial advisor from Carmel, Tom Buck, has been barred from working in the securities industry for alleged misconduct that included unauthorized trading for his clients without the clients, or his employer, Merrill Lynch’s, permission. Buck, a...
by Mike | Jul 22, 2015 | Securities Fraud
Former financial adviser, Sean M. Meadows, has been sentenced to 25 years in prison for fraud. A St Paul, Minn., U.S. District Court judge handed down the sentence recently in the case in which Meadows pleaded guilty to diverting $10 million for business and personal...
by Mike | Jul 20, 2015 | Securities Fraud
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Inc. (FINRA) filed a complaint against Arizona broker, John Waszolek, for allegedly attempting to inherit $1.8 million from a client with Alzheimer’s disease. Broker Took Unfair Advantage FINRA says that in 2009, John...
by Mike | Jul 15, 2015 | Securities Fraud
The asset and wealth management firm Robert W. Baird & Co. along with 20 of its employees have been fined $17.8 million plus interest, with the money awarded to Gleacher & Co., a dissolved investment firm, for alleged unfair competition and solicitation. The...
by Mike | Jul 13, 2015 | Securities Fraud
Hans Peter Black, founder of Boston-based Interinvest Corp., has been charged by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) for defrauding investors and losing up to $12 million of the $17 million of clients’ money invested in Canadian penny stock companies in which...
