UPDATE August 2016-Disclosure that another customer dispute has been filed. In July 2016 a customer of LPL Financial alleged damages of $19,995 for unsuitable penny stock trading and failure to…
read moreFEBRUARY 2017 UPDATE–VSR Financial has closed operations. Many of its brokers and clients have been transferred to Summit Brokerage Services, a related entity. See below for discussion of VSR’s regulatory…
read morePlano, Texas Rex Securities Law is investigating VSR Financial Services broker M. F. (Mickey) Long in connection with the sale of fixed annuities, limited partnerships, direct investments in oil & gas, and real estate securities.…
read moreSee this for MARCH 2018 UPDATE–Mark Kaplan barred from securities industry for churning account of 93 year customer. APRIL 2017-UPDATE-In FINRA Case 16-0193 a customer of Vanderbilt Securities alleges damages…
read moreThe FBI announced the arrest and extradition of repeat securities fraud offender Edward Durante, also known as: Ted Wise Efran Eisenberg Yulia Ed Simmons Durante was arrested in Germany and…
read moreFebruary 24, 2016- Cleveland, Ohio A Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) arbitration panel ordered former Summit Brokerage Services stockbroker Larry Werbel , who operated Evolution Partners Wealth Management of Chagrin Falls,…
read moreWe are investigating former RBC Capital Markets broker Paul V. Blum of West Palm Beach, Florida. According to his official FINRA record, Blum was employed by RBC Capital Markets from…
read more1/8/2016- Cleveland, Ohio Larry Werbel, 67, of Evolution Partners Wealth Management in Chagrin Falls was indicted on charges that he participated in a scheme which defrauded about 100 investors out…
read moreNovember 20, 2015-Plano, Texas Dennis Van Patter , a broker with VSR FInancial Services operates his financial service business through First Financial Services Group in Plano, Texas. Van Patter recently entered into a…
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