John Alex (CRD: 2020710) settled customer disputes at Morgan Stanley and UBS Financial Services between 2011 and 2025, according to BrokerCheck, which lists him as John L. Alex.

MITCHELL TOBY YANOW (CRD#: 214817), a former STIFEL, NICOLAUS & COMPANY, INC financial advisor from BOCA RATON, FL, was barred by FINRA on July 11, 2018, from acting as a broker or otherwise associating with a broker-dealer firm for allegedly stealing over $205, 000 from an 87 year-old client. Yanow was accused of writing checks drawn on the client's brokerage account at Yanow's member firm without the client's knowledge or authorization. Yanow accepted FINRA’s findings without admitting or denying his guilt.
FINRA’s findings stated that the client allegedly gave MITCHELL TOBY YANOW blank checks drawn on the client's account so that Yanow could pay the client's caregivers in the event the client was unable to do so, but allegedly, Yanow used the checks to pay for his own personal expenses from approximately August of 2017 through May of 2018. Yanow allegedly used the checks to pay for his homeowner’s association fees, his children’s summer camp fees and a 1976 Corvette. Yanow allegedly wrote approximately 33 checks from the elderly client’s account.
Stifel discharged former advisor, MITCHELL TOBY YANOW, in May of 2018. According to FINRA’s BrokerCheck Yanow’s discharge was due to the allegations that he, “took money from a client account for his personal use without authorization.”
According to FINRA’s BrokerCheck, which is available to the public online on FINRA’s website, MITCHELL TOBY YANOW has 3 Disclosures on his report. Yanow was in the securities industry for 26 years and was listed with 6 firms, the most recent listed below:
04/29/2015 - 05/16/2018 STIFEL, NICOLAUS & COMPANY, INC - BOCA RATON, FL
11/04/2008 - 05/01/2015 OPPENHEIMER & CO. INC - PALM BEACH GARDENS, FL
If you, or an elderly loved one, suffered financial losses due to the actions or recommendations of MITCHELL TOBY YANOW formerly of STIFEL, NICOLAUS & COMPANY, INC of BOCA RATON, FL, contact Soreide Law Group, conveniently based in Pompano Beach, Florida, and speak to an experienced securities lawyer regarding the possible recovery of your investment losses through a FINRA arbitration at: 888-760-6552.
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John Alex (CRD: 2020710) settled customer disputes at Morgan Stanley and UBS Financial Services between 2011 and 2025, according to BrokerCheck, which lists him as John L. Alex.
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