Financial Advisors

Jun 8th, 2015

Five Million Dollar Investment Scam Rips Off Investors In Maryland, Virginia, And California

Investors were defrauded by the employees of two separate companies, North Star Finance LLC and Capital Source Lending LLC, when the employees persuaded them to invest […]
Jun 7th, 2015

Financial Advisor In Bethesda, Maryland Hides Felony

An investor deserves to know if their financial advisor has committed burglary and owes back taxes to the IRS. Patrick M. Ebel, formerly employed with NYLife […]
Jun 3rd, 2015

Gray Financial Group Defrauds Police And Firefighter Pension Funds

The Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) has charged Gray Financial Group, as well as its president, Laurence Gray (“Gray”), and co-CEO, Robert Hubbard (“Hubbard”), with fraud. […]
Jun 1st, 2015

Los Angeles Financial Advisor Makes Excessive Commissions With Unauthorized Trades

Armen Bahadourian, formerly registered with UnionBanc, has been fined $10,000 for violating FINRA rules, and must pay back $6,880.75 in disgorgement of wrongly earned commissions. Bahadourian […]
May 29th, 2015

People’s Securities Inc. Financial Advisor Steals $17,400 From Client

Tricia Denise Willis (“Willis”) in Vernon, Connecticut has been banned from the securities industry for committing fraud and conversion. She forged a customer’s signature to withdraw […]
May 22nd, 2015

Ameriprise Financial Advisor Suspended for Hiding Competing Outside Business Venture from Employer

Sean Eric Mattson of South Lyon, Michigan was suspended for one month for failing to disclose his outside business activity of financial planning services to his […]
May 21st, 2015

Million Dollar Ponzi Scheme Flourishes as Investment Firm Fails to Supervise Financial Advisor

FINRA fined and barred Terry Joe Bagwell of Pruco Securities, LLC (Pruco or the “Firm”) in Hoover, Alabama from the securities industry for participating in a […]
May 21st, 2015

Charles Schwab Investment Advisor Suspended for Stealing Confidential Customer Information

Sadeer Thomas Jamil of Commerce, Michigan, was suspended from the securities industry. He took over 150 pictures of his customer’s “nonpublic personal information,” and moved the […]
May 20th, 2015

Gilbert Investment Advisor Suspended for Withholding Outside Business Activities from Employer

James A. Rosebrough Jr. of Gilbert, Arizona was fined and suspended for 30 days after participating in outside business ventures with a client, and withholding the […]
May 14th, 2015

Irvine Stockbroker Suspended for Failing to Disclose Almost $500,000 in Unsatisfied Tax Liens

Andrew Henry Conley, a stockbroker with B.B. Graham & Company, Inc. in Riverside, California, was suspended for failing to timely update his Form U4 to disclose […]