Investors might have sustained losses due to securities broker Gary Andrew Edmonds Jr. [CRD: 3098531, Washington, District of Columbia], based on disclosures on FINRA BrokerCheck. Evidently, Edmonds worked for UBS Financial Services Inc. from April 21, 2011, to April 11, 2022, and has worked for LPL Financial LLC since March 31, 2022. Read on to […]

One or more investors apparently complained about securities broker David Norman Dunn [CRD: 2819556, Walnut Creek, California], according to publicly available information on Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) BrokerCheck. Evidently, David Dunn worked for Oppenheimer Co. Inc. in San Francisco, California, from January 16, 2007, to January 13, 2023, before moving to Raymond James Associates […]

FINRA expelled John Petrone [CRD: 5634972, Willowick, Ohio], according to disclosures on FINRA BrokerCheck. Evidently, John Petrone was employed by Farmers Financial Solutions LLC from March 16, 2009, to December 31, 2022. Here’s more about the regulatory actions involving John Petrone. Regulatory Action Against Petrone Concerned Trading In Elder Client’s Account FINRA barred Petrone on […]

Soreide Law Group is reviewing potential investor claims on behalf of individuals who incurred losses from securities broker Dharmesh Virendra Vora [CRD: 2629494, Flagstaff, Arizona]. Evidently, Vora has worked for Vora Wealth Management in Flagstaff, Arizona, since April 4, 2011. Read on to discover more about the disclosures involving Dharmesh Vora, including investor disputes alleging […]

The following information is from FINRA’s website under “Disciplinary and Other FINRA Actions, January, 2013.” Kenneth Andrew Mauchin (CRD #2366345, Registered Principal, Sanford, Florida) was named a respondent in a FINRA complaint alleging that he misappropriated $23,750 from elderly customers’ accounts by converting their funds to cashier’s checks and depositing those checks into a bank […]

Securities Lawyer, Lars Soreide, of Soreide Law Group, is currently investigating Gramercy Securities, Inc. This brokerage has been alleged to have placed unsophisticated investors' money into unsuitable investments. There have been claims, for example, of a recent widow losing her entire net worth by investing in risky private placements. Some of these risky private placements […]

Jane E. O'Brien, 59, of Needham, MA, is facing securities fraud for allegedly bilking her client out of $240,000. O'Brien was working for Merrill Lynch in Boston as a financial advisor at the time. O'Brien allegedly told an elderly woman she was investing her money in thousands of shares of a New Hampshire-based company called […]

In a recent MoneyWatch article, Steve Vernon writes that investment fraud and financial abuse targeting the elderly is a major problem today, according to a recent survey by the Investor Protection Trust and Investor Protection Institute. The top three ways in which seniors are exploited are: Theft of diversion of funds or property by caregivers […]

Stephen Nietsch (CRD #3111082, Registered Representative, Boynton Beach, Florida) was barred from association with any FINRA member in any capacity and ordered to pay $20,000, plus interest, in restitution to a customer. The sanctions were based on findings that Nietsch borrowed $20,000 from an elderly customer contrary to his member firm’s procedures prohibiting him from […]