Investment Firms

Sep 13th, 2015

Permanently Barred: Advisor Cecilia Le at J.P. Morgan Securities Steals Client Money

Cecilia Carolyn Hang Minh Le of Santa Ana, California was permanently barred from “acting as a broker or otherwise associating with firms that sell securities to […]
Sep 13th, 2015

John M. Saad Permanently Barred After Falsifying Expense Reports

John Michael Elias Saad of Atlanta, Georgia was recently barred “from acting as a broker or otherwise associating with firms that sell securities to the public.” […]
Sep 10th, 2015

Cape Securities’ CCO Michael Lovett Establishes Inadequate Supervisory System That Leads to Wire Transfer Fraud

Michael Allen Lovett of Lawrenceville, Georgia was recently fined $5,000 and suspended for six months, according to Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, or FINRA. Reports detail that […]
Sep 8th, 2015

New Report Reveals Wells Fargo Advisors Were Unethically Front Running Customers

Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, or FINRA, recently reported that representatives from Wells Fargo Advisors, LLC. in St. Louis, Missouri unethically prioritized their own interests above their […]
Sep 4th, 2015

High Markup Corporate Bonds Make Big Money for Source Capital Group, but Not Clients

Source Capital Group, Inc. was recently fined and censured by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, or FINRA, for selling corporate bonds to customers at an unfair, […]
Sep 3rd, 2015

OFS Securities Inc. Client Loses $600,000 from Ill Advised Lehman-backed Investment

This July, Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, or FINRA, reported a recent closure of a case involving the gauche activities of OFS Securities Inc. from 2011 through […]
Aug 31st, 2015

Cape Securities’ Representative Caught in Fraudulent Wire Transfer Activity

Recent reports from Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, or FINRA, detail a macabre series of fraudulent wire transfers. From February through September 2012, a registered representative of […]
Aug 27th, 2015

Malicious Variable Annuity Surrenders Make Treasure Trove for Cadaret, Grant & Co.

According to recent reports from Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, or FINRA, the Syracuse, New York-headquartered independent-brokerage firm Cadaret, Grant & Co., Inc. was fined $75,000 and […]
Aug 3rd, 2015

Investors in Notes Offered by Thompson National Properties Are Securities Fraud Victims

FINRA recently ruled in a hearing panel decision that Anthony Warren Thompson and TNP Securities, LLC, engaged in widespread securities fraud, improperly taking over $35 million […]
Jun 27th, 2015

Interinvest Corp Fraudulently Funnels $17 Million Earmarked for “Conservative Investing” into Sketchy Canadian Penny Stocks.

Hans P. Black and his investment advisory firm, Interinvest, are targets of an SEC complaint alleging a $17 million fraud. According to the SEC, Mr. Black’s […]