Dawson James Securities, Inc. (CRD® #130645, Boca Raton, Florida), Albert James Poliak (CRD #1270681, Registered Principal, Parkland, Florida), and Douglas Fulton Kaiser (CRD #1674570, Registered Principal, Deerfield Beach, Florida)   submitted Offers of Settlement in which the firm was censured and fined $90,000. Poliak, Dawson’s CEO, and Kaiser, who acted at times as both the […]

The brokerage, LPL Financial, LLC, was fined $100,000 November 22, 2011,  by the State of Oregon for failing to supervise a broker that sold high-risk oil and gas partnerships to clients, many of whom were elderly. According to the Oregon Department of Consumer and Business Services, a former LPL representative, Jack Kleck, sold the oil and gas investments […]