AThe Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Inc. (FINRA) fined Fifth Third Securities $4 million and ordered it to pay approximately $2 million in restitution to their clients.  FINRA stated they fined Fifth Third for "failing to appropriately consider and accurately describe the costs and benefits of variable annuity exchanges." FINRA also stated that this was the […]

The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) barred Matthew R. Quinn (CRD# 4478751) for alleged theft from elderly clients. FINRA reported that allegedly Quinn withdrew the funds from the accounts of elderly bank clients while he was working at Fifth Third, Cincinnati, Ohio. He also worked as a teller there. Quinn refused to cooperate with FINRA […]

FINRA has ordered Fifth Third Securities and one of its registered reps, Mark Vernon Rottler (CRD# 2369550), to pay a client for allegedly making unsuitable investments which cost the client over $125,000. Allegedly, Rottler made unsuitable recommendations of mutual funds, structured products, and equities. The client opened an account with Fifth Third Securities in 2002, […]

Michigan's Attorney General charged MARY A. FAHER (CRD# 2852644) of Stevensville, Michigan, who worked as an investment advisor with The Diversified Group Advisory Firm, beginning in 2011, with running a Ponzi Scheme that defrauded senior citizens out of millions of dollars. Faher was arraigned on four counts of Securities Fraud. Multiple charges have also been […]

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.” Kenneth Andrew Mauchin (CRD #2366345, Registered Principal, Sanford, Florida) was barred from association with any FINRA member in any capacity. FINRA’s Enforcement Department did not seek restitution because the member […]