September 2017 – Danbury, CT
According to publicly available records William F. Garbarino (CRD#730278) , a former stockbroker who was most recently employed by Lincoln Financial Advisors , disclose a termination from employment and a regulatory event that resulted in his bar from the securities industry, a customer dispute and an outstanding judgment/lien.
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) is the agency that licenses and regulates stockbrokers and brokerage firms. FINRA requires brokers and brokerage firms to report customer complaints and disputes as well as regulatory sanctions. In addition brokers are required to disclose certain financial matters such as personal bankruptcies, judgments and liens.
Garbarino was employed by Lincoln Financial Advisors from 5/2009-4/2017. He was discharged in 4/2017 by Lincoln Financial who made the following allegation on his FINRA record: “FINRA made a preliminary determination to pursue disciplinary action against the representative in connection with FINRA’s allegation that he provided false testimony under oath”
Without admitting or denying the findings, Garbarino consented to a permanent bar from the securities industry and to the entry of findings that he falsely testified during a FINRA arbitration that his office staff did not photocopy and reuse customer signatures to create annuity company change of broker forms, and each of the customer signatures contained a sample of those form were authentic and non identical. During a hearing Garbarino testified that customer signatures were authentic and not photocopies of the originals.
The findings also state that at the time of his testimony his son, who worked at his office, obtained from certain customers executed but partially blank, signature pages for such forms, which he photocopied and used to create falsified new forms containing non authentic signatures which were submitted to several annuity companies as originals.
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