Today, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charged Thomas Belesis, owner of independent broker-dealer, John Thomas Financial, and a Houston-based hedge fund manager, with defrauding investors. The SEC said hedge fund manager George R. Jarkesy Jr., worked closely with Mr. Belesis to launch two hedge funds that raised $30 million from investors, and that as […]

Lars K. Soreide, of Soreide Law Group, a securities arbitration law firm based out of Fort Lauderdale, representing investors Nationwide before FINRA, had clients who were recently awarded approximately $560,626.00 in a FINRA arbitration against John Michael Greer, Sr., for his role in the sale of the Church Mortgage and Loan bond to a retired […]