INVESTOR ALERT: FINRA Bars Coastal Equities’ SAM AZIZ Because Of Excessive Trading Investigation The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (“FINRA”) barred David A. Noyes broker Sam Aziz (CRD#: 1721932, Dublin, Ohio) from the securities industry. Evidently, Aziz executed a Letter of Acceptance, Waiver and Consent (“AWC”) #2017052325701 on March 18, 2019, which FINRA accepted March 27, […]

INVESTOR ALERT: FINRA Bars JAMES SCHWARTZ For Excessive Trading The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (“FINRA”) announced it barred Aegis Capital Corp securities representative James Bradley Schwartz (CRD#: 3043085, New York City, New York) for making fraudulent trades and churning Aegis Capital Corp customers’ accounts. A settlement was reached April 16, 2019 in Case #2016051704302, following […]

SEC Bars Wedbush Securities Broker Timary Delorme For Fraudulent Trading Scheme The Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”) issued an Order #3-18410 dated March 27, 2018 barring Wedbush Securities Inc. broker Timary Delorme (CRD#: 736418, Los Angeles, California) from engaging in brokerage or investment advisory activities. Specifically, Delorme, 60, submitted an Offer of Settlement to the […]

ATTENTION INVESTORS: FINRA Fines, Suspends Hillard Lyons Broker CHRISTOPHER BENNETT The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (“FINRA”) suspended J.J.B. Hilliard, W.L. Lyons LLC broker Christopher Duke Bennett (CRD#: 2510231, Louisville, Kentucky) for exercising discretion in investment accounts without written authorization. Evidently, Bennett executed a Letter of Acceptance, Waiver and Consent (“AWC”) #2017054060301 on December 17, 2018, […]

PHILIP E. MORIARTY II (CRD# 1989641) an investment advisor from Maine, was recently accused of six counts of wire fraud. A grand jury in Chicago indicted him on the charges relating to the allegations that he defrauded investors of approximately $1.1 million while he was CEO of First Street Capital Partners in Chicago 2008 - […]

The Securities and Exchange Commission filed a complaint, February 21, 2014, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Ohio, alleging Charles P. O'Brien, from 1998 - 2008, engaged in a fraudulent scheme to misappropriate money from his client--over $298,000. The complaint alleged O'Brien had issued checks in the client's name from the […]

James Y. Lee, La Jolla, California, was charged by the SEC on February 13, 2014, for allegedly defrauding his advisory clients by charging a management fee up to 50% of the client's monthly profits and told clients that he would share 50% of their losses. When the clients lost, he did not reimburse them his […]

Sherrell Berrett, a 75 year-old St. George, Utah man was accused of defrauding four people out of more than $1 million. Berrett has agreed pay back his victims, $1.3 million as part of a plea deal. Berrett agreed to plead guilty to one count of securities fraud, although he was charged with 13 counts. Berrett's […]

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 […]