The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) announced that it has fined Wells Investment Securities, Inc. $300,000 for using misleading marketing materials in the sale of Wells Timberland REIT, Inc., a non-traded Real Estate Investment Trust (REIT).   It was noted that Wells was the dealer-manager and wholesaler for the public offering of Wells Timberland REIT, which […]

In a November 25, 2011, article in InvestNews.com, Bruce Kelly writes that broker-dealers who sold billions of dollars in allegedly fraudulent private placements failed massively in their due-diligence responsibilities to investors, according to the assessment of forensic accountant and expert witness Gordon Yale, who has worked on more than 50 legal claims brought by investors against […]

In a November 28, 2011 article for InvestmentNews.com, Bruce Kelly writes that Next Financial Group, Inc. has agreed to pay $2 million in restitution to clients who bought oil and natural gas private placements of Provident Royalties LLC, which the Securities and Exchange Commission in 2009 accused of fraud. In a Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Inc. […]

In a November 23, 2011, article in FA Magazine, Karen DeMasters writes that LPL Financial has been fined $100,000 for failing to properly oversee one of its brokers in Oregon who sold risky investments to people, many of them elderly and without the mental capacity to make investment decisions. It was reported that the Oregon […]

An article appeared in the About.com Guide, written by Julie Garber regarding a Miami broker and elder abuse.  She wrote that recently a Miami news station reported on the elder abuse case of Josephine Troisi, age 93, and her sister, Mary Teris, age 95. A few years ago the sisters, who live together in Hollywood, Florida, hired […]

In a Nov. 11, 2011 article from Bloomberg, we learn that  Birmingham, Alabama, once, the most prominent industrial center in the Southeast has been on a long losing streak that just got longer. Daimler AG opened a Mercedes-Benz factory in Vance, in 1997,one county west of the state’s biggest city. Honda Motor Co. put a plant […]

Soreide Law Group, PLLC, is currently investigating claims on behalf of investors in the following firms regarding stock/securities losses: Laidlaw & Company, with locations throughout the United States and the UK, First Midwest Securities, Inc. (FMSI) established in Wisconsin in 1989, FMSI has since relocated to Bloomington, Illinois, Obsidian Financial Group, with offices in New York and […]

Soreide Law Group, PLLC is currently investigating potential claims related to the Foresee Strategies Insurance Funds 3(c)(1) and 3(c)(7), which were offered via an annuity issued by Sun Life Financial and sold to investors by SagePoint Financial, Inc. and other securities brokerage firms. Foresee Strategies Insurance Funds were part of the SALI Multi-Series Funds 3(c)(1) and 3(c)(7), […]

Soreide Law Group, PLLC,  is currently investigating claims against Laidlaw & Company stock broker, Joseph Fedorko, Stamford, CT.  Joseph Fedorko, listed as "managing director" of Laidlaw & Company's Stamford, CT, branch, has eight customer complaints on his record with three more pending complaints.  Joseph Fedorko has been with Laidlaw & Company since May, 2009. Securities Attorney, Lars Soreide, […]