Customer Files Suit Against Laidlaw For Churning Account David Michael Murray (CRD#: 1870050, New York, New York) is a prior registered representative of Laidlaw & Company (UK) LTD. According to Murray’s Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (“FINRA”) BrokerCheck profile, his sales practices have been contested by customers on four occasions. The disputes concern customers of Laidlaw […]

The following is a portion of the article quoting Securities Lawyer, Lars K. Soreide of Soreide Law Group. The article was written by Andrew Welsch and appeared in onwallstreet on March 11,2015: "Ex-Advisor Racks Up $16M in Client Complaints One barred advisor. Fourteen client complaints. $16 million in alleged damages. Troubles are mounting for Enver […]

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.” Alan Jay Davidofsky (CRD #1389312, Registered Representative, Delray Beach, Florida) was fined $11,741.78, plus interest, which represents disgorgement, and barred from association with any FINRA member in any capacity. The […]

The SEC brought proceedings that arise out of a failure reasonably to supervise three registered representatives (the “Registered Representatives”) with a view to preventing and detecting their violations of federal securities laws by JP Turner. Between January 1, 2008 and December 31, 2009 (the “relevant period”), for the purpose of generating commission business, these registered […]

Clifford Jagodzinski, formerly of Morgan Stanley Smith Barney LLC (MSSB), claims he was fired for blowing the whistle on one of the firm's newest wealth managers, Harvey Kadden. According to the complaint, filed in U.S. District Court in the Southern District of New York, Kadden “was flipping preferred securities in a manner that was generating […]

The Securities and Exchange Commission alleged three former brokers at JP Turner & Co. in Atlanta, traded excessively in accounts of seven clients from January, 2008, through December, 2009. Regulators reported that these three brokers churned their client's accounts and received $845,000 in commissions and fees for themselves and the brokerage. Unfortunately, their customers lost […]

Recently, certain United States based brokerage firms have been contacting investors located in England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland, soliciting customers to open accounts at USA based brokerage firms. The Securities Lawyers at Soreide Law Group have recently been receiving a large number of inquires from overseas investors. The UK investors are now looking to initiate […]

Merrill Lynch has agreed this week to pay a $400,000 fine in a 'fund-churning' case brought by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Inc. (FINRA). Merrill will also pay $139,718 in restitution to the customers involved. Allegedly Merrill failed to supervise it's former broker David Bredenburg, who worked in the Towson, Md. office. FINRA claimed Merrill […]

JHS Capital Advisors Inc. and a former broker, Enver R. Alijaj, were fined $1.9 million in a Finra arbitration last week stemming from allegations that the broker traded in a client's account excessively to generate commissions. The broker was also forced to pay $500,000 to settle a previous charge of churning. Churning is illegal and unethical. On the […]