Christopher Somes Babcock (CRD #5004907, Wayne, Pennsylvania) was barred by FINRA for allegedly receiving approx. $160,000 from his customers after he had his customers wire money from their firm accounts to their personal accounts and then they wired the money to Babcock or wrote a check payable to him. According to the FINRA report, the […]

Florida broker Emily Palmer Vitale, with Florida Investment Advisors now known as BT Wealth Advisors, a subsidiary of The Tampa Banking Co., was fined $5000 and suspended for three months by FINRA for allegedly forging a client’s signature. In January 2014, Vitale allegedly cut and pasted a customer’s signature from another document to another. Christopher […]