Soreide Law Group, (888) 760-6552, has obtained the following summation of information from FINRA’s website under “Disciplinary and Other FINRA Actions, January, 2014.” Harry Shaw Hammond (CRD #2261856, Registered Principal, Sarasota, Florida) was fined $10,000 and suspended from association with any FINRA member in any capacity for 12 months. Hammond consented to the described sanctions […]

Soreide Law Group, a Securities Arbitration Law Firm, (888) 760-6552, obtained the following information on FINRA’s website under “Disciplinary and Other FINRA Actions, July, 2013.” Scottie Brent Chitwood (CRD #4469472, Registered Representative, Estill Springs, Tennessee) was barred from association with any FINRA member in any capacity. Without admitting or denying the findings, Chitwood consented to […]

The following information appeared on FINRA’s website under “Disciplinary and Other FINRA Actions, June, 2013.” James Merle Culbertson (CRD #1716829, Registered Representative, Oakdale, Minnesota) was fined $20,000 and suspended from association with any FINRA member in any capacity for 12 months. Without admitting or denying the findings, Culbertson consented to the described sanctions and to […]

FINRA, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, alleges Roman Sledziejowski, the Polish president and owner of TWS Financial, LLC, in Brooklyn, N.Y., used customer funds for his own use and gave false statements to clients from June, 2009, through August, 2012. FINRA alleges Sledziejowski defrauded three Polish customers of more than $4 million by taking money […]

William Thomas Johnson Jr. (CRD #1189117, Registered Representative, North Palm Beach, Florida) was barred from association with any FINRA member in any capacity. Without admitting or denying the findings, Johnson consented to the described sanction and to the entry of findings that he received approximately $47,000 from a customer after Johnson made the representation, which […]

Daniel Edward Becerril II (CRD #4489715, Registered Representative, Huntington Beach, California) has been barred from association with any FINRA member in any capacity and this sanction was based on FINRA's findings that Becerril made willful misrepresentations and omissions to his customer by telling her that he would invest an $11,500 inheritance in a mutual fund, when […]

The following information is from FINRA’s website under, “Disciplinary and Other FINRA Actions, May, 2012.” Sean Donald Premock (CRD #3175558, Registered Representative, Fort Lauderdale, Florida)   submitted a Letter of Acceptance, Waiver and Consent in which he was barred from association with any FINRA member in any capacity. Without admitting or denying the findings, Premock […]

WASHINGTON — In a February article in The Bond Buyer, Jonathan Hemmerdinger writes that a Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) arbitration panel ordered Memphis-based Morgan Keegan & Co. to pay a Birmingham investor $1.95 million for misrepresenting that the Jefferson County, Ala., sewer bonds he purchased were safe, liquid and tax-free investments. These bonds were actually […]