November 19, 2014-
Earlier this week we commented on the recent Wall Street Journal’s investigation of “troubled” stockbrokers nationwide and the fact that 4 out of the top ten “hot spots” for stockbrokers with bad disciplinary histories are located in South Florida.
Carl Hiaasen, a long time South Florida resident and satirical journalist for the Miami Herald for decades, whose prior experience includes The Emory Wheel and The Independent Florida Alligator, offers his poignant, interesting and always entertaining observations on why why brokers with lots of regulatory violations are drawn to affluent communities here in the sunny tropics. Read it, you will enjoy it.
Some of my favorite excerpts from this fine article :
- “Jackals always follow the herds. The scent is stronger when the herds have money, and Florida’s elderly tend to have more money than most.”
- “In Florida the securities industry is overseen by the Office of Financial Regulation, which last year disciplined 25 registered brokers. That’s a pitifully puny total in a place teeming with predators, but some hot-spot states didn’t bother to take action against anybody.”
- “Whether it’s the balmy climate or the abundance of prey that appeals to white-collar crooks, they are here in thriving colonies that make Florida the undisputed Sleazoid Capital of America. It’s a title that will be hard to shake, and no place else is eager to claim it.”
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