Soreide Law Group, PLLC, has begun investigating potential claims against Money Concepts Capital Corp. and broker, Gurudeo "Buddy" Persaud. The Securities and Exchange Commission charged a former broker in Orlando, Fla., who defrauded investors in an astrology-based Ponzi scheme. The SEC alleges that Gurudeo “Buddy” Persaud lured family, friends, and others into investing in his firm, White Elephant Trading […]

  Thomas Brown Hammond (CRD #2389080, Registered Representative, Fair Oaks, California) was barred from association with any FINRA member in any capacity.  Hammond consented to the described sanction and to the entry of findings that he solicited both his brokerage firm customers and customers of his consulting business to invest funds in a fictitious private […]

 Joel William Carlson (CRD #2844760, Registered Representative, Vadnais Heights, Minnesota)  was barred from association with any FINRA member in any capacity. Carlson consented to the described sanction and to the entry of findings that he solicited his member firm’s customers to give him a total of at least $734,000, fraudulently misrepresenting to the customers that he would […]

Brent Robert Bishop (CRD #2348912, Registered Principal, Tulsa, Oklahoma) has been barred from association with any FINRA member in any capacity and ordered to pay restitution in the total amount of $58,000, plus interest, to customers. These sanctions were based on FINRA's findings that Bishop misappropriated funds from his member firm’s customers by intentionally converting $40,000 […]

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 […]

Yesterday, June 12, 2012,  The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charged 14 sales agents who misled investors and illegally sold securities for a Long Island-based investment firm at the center of a reported $415 million Ponzi scheme.  The SEC alleges that the agents promised falsely that investor returns would be as high as 12 to 14 percent […]

Soreide Law Group, PLLC, is currently allerting  all investors who suffered losses with  Brenda Eschbach of California.  Those investors may be able to recover their losses through a FINRA arbitration. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced on February 14, 2012, it filed a civil injunctive action in the U.S. District Court for the Central District […]

Soreide Law Group, PLLC, is currently investigating the sale of promissory notes to investors by their broker/dealers. Again, many conservative investors have said they were sold these notes as “low risk” when in fact, they were highly risky or fraudulent. These investments also paid significantly higher fees to the brokers, making them much more motivated […]

It was announced today that a federal judge sentenced a 36-year-old Dallas man, Joseph Blimline, in connection with his role in a pair of complex, lucrative oil and gas Ponzi schemes that operated in Michigan and Texas, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Texas John M. Bales announced. Joseph Blimline was sentenced to 240 months in federal […]