The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) is the largest independent regulator for all securities firms doing business in the United States. FINRA’s chief role is to protect investors by maintaining the fairness of the U.S. capital markets.
All stockbrokers and broker dealers (brokerage firms) are required to be licensed by and subject to the rules and regulations of FINRA. Each month FINRA publishes disciplinary actions against brokers and broker dealers. Discipline can range from monetary fines and suspensions, or in extreme cases, revocation of licensing and a bar from the securities industry.
See the FINRA website for current and historical disciplinary actions.
July 2013
Huel Cox Jr. (CRD #1638341, Registered Principal, Phoenix, Arizona) submitted a Letter of Acceptance, Waiver and Consent in which he was barred from association with any FINRA member in anycapacity. Without admitting or denying the findings, Cox consented to the described sanction and to the entry of findings that he solicited a friend, who was also a customer of his member firm, to make various investments in real estate and a casino. The customer agreed to make the investments and, over a period of years, wrote personal checks payable to Cox for the purported investments. The findings stated that Cox did not make any of the promised real estate investments for the customer but, instead, misappropriated at least $206,398.89 of the customer’s funds for his own personal use without the customer’s authorization.
(FINRA Case #2011029621801)
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