Soreide Law Group, PLLC, has launched an investigation into the suspended Idaho broker, Vincenzo (Vince) Covino. Covino was employed at Legacy Wealth Management Group in Boise, and Prospera Financial Services. Covino was with LPL Financial until 2009. Vince Covino was fined and suspended by FINRA for borrowing hundreds of thousands of dollars from a client, […]

Soreide Law Group is currently investigating potential claims for clients who lost money in UBS Willow Fund, LLC. The UBS Willow Fund is a close-ended fixed income mutual fund that launched in 2000, and is managed by UBS Willow Management, L.L.C. The Willow Fund primarily invests in the fixed income markets of the United States. […]

Attorney Lars Soreide, of Soreide Law Group, has filed a FINRA arbitration against Ellen Erenstein, and Investors Capital, for the sale of Tenants In Common (TIC) real estate investments and other high risk private placements. The TIC’S and alternative investments sold to Soreide Law Group’s client that Ms. Erenstein recommended, have not performed well and […]

Soreide Law Group, PLLC, is currently investigating the marketing and sales of non-traditional exchange traded funds (ETFs) to investors. Many of the country's leading banks – including Citigroup, Morgan Stanley, UBS and Wells Fargo – were recently sanctioned by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) for more than $9.1 million over their failure to supervise […]

FINRA publishes a quarterly review to provide firms with a sampling of recent disciplinary actions involving misconduct by registered representatives. "Willfully Failing to Disclose Material Information on a Form U4" Recently, FINRA settled a matter involving a registered representative who willfully failed to amend his Form U4 to disclose tax liens and judgments, and failed […]

Levinski Dealexis Barnes (CRD #2292179, Registered Representative, Lutz, Florida) has been named a respondent in a FINRA complaint alleging that he discussed with a customer an investment in an accounting business that Barnes and other individuals were contemplating purchasing. The FINRA complaint alleges that Barnes told the customer that if the offer for the business […]

Andrew Martin Abern (CRD #1610607, Registered Principal, Miami, Florida) was censured and fined $25,000. Without admitting or denying the findings, Abern consented to the described sanctions and to the entry of findings that he provided some customers with VA expense disclosure forms that contained inaccurate information; the forms understated the annual expenses that would be […]

Stephanie Lee Webster (CRD #2424488, Registered Representative, Fort Lauderdale, Florida) was fined $5,000 and suspended from association with any FINRA member in any capacity for 15 business days. Without admitting or denying the findings, Webster consented to the described sanctions and to the entry of findings that she attempted to settle a customer’s complaint, without […]

Kris Michael Thoresen (CRD #1940175, Registered Representative, Ponte Vedra, Florida) was fined $10,000 and suspended from association with any FINRA member in any capacity for one year. Without admitting or denying FINRA's findings, Thoresen consented to the described sanctions and to the entry of findings that he was aware of his member firm’s supervisory guidelines […]