Florida broker Emily Palmer Vitale, with Florida Investment Advisors now known as BT Wealth Advisors, a subsidiary of The Tampa Banking Co., was fined $5000 and suspended for three months by FINRA for allegedly forging a client’s signature. In January 2014, Vitale allegedly cut and pasted a customer’s signature from another document to another.
Christopher Somes Babcock, was barred by FINRA. A former broker with Citigroup Global Markets and Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, Babcock allegedly took $160,000 from his customers and used it for his own use and benefit. Babcock also falsified a customer’s account summaries, falsely inflating the value of the customer’s portfolio.
Jeffery Bowman Ellis, 65, was fined $10,000 and suspended for two months by FINRA. Ellis was formerly registered with Deutsche Bank Securities. Ellis allegedly executed six unauthorized trades in a deceased customer’s account.
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