Dean Mustaphalli, a former Sterne Agee Financial Services Inc. broker, has been charged by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Inc.(FINRA) for allegedly operating a $6 million hedge fund, Mustaphalli Capital Partners, and receiving commissions without informing his firm. Mustaphalli began his fund in 2011 and may be expelled by FINRA for allegedly operating the hedge […]

Soreide Law Group, (888) 760-6552, recently obtained the following summation of information from FINRA’s website, listed in “Disciplinary and Other FINRA Actions, May, 2014.” Timothy Damien Moran (CRD #2326078, Paradise Valley, Arizona) was barred by FINRA and ordered to disgorge $200,000 of ill-gotten gains. According to the FINRA report, Timothy Moran allegedly engaged in private […]

Did your broker sell you the Tsunami Lakeshore Integrated Funds? The Tsunami Lakeshore Integrated Fund, LLC, is being investigated by the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission as a fraudulent investment scam. Tsunami Capital, LLC was incorporated in 2002 and was located at 455 North Cityfront Plaza Drive, in Chicago, Illinois. This company was in the […]

Investors have only six years to bring a claim for investment losses. Soreide Law Group is currently investigating Citigroup Smith Barney's London-based hedge fund, CSO Partners ("CSO"). Citigroup spokesman, Jon Diat, recently said that the firm has "temporarily suspended redemptions of all shares of CSO to stabilize the fund." In a recent Wall Street Journal […]

FINRA, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, is investigating independent broker-dealers that sold variable annuities with subaccounts invested in hedge funds that resulted in $18 million in client losses during the credit crisis writes Bruce Kelly in a recent article for InvestmentNews.com. FINRA has been investigating the sale of a variable annuity issued by Sun Life […]

On May 29th., 2012, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) charged a Miami-based hedge fund adviser for deceiving investors about whether its executives had personally invested in a Latin America-focused hedge fund. According to the SEC’s investigation, they found that Quantek Asset Management LLC made misrepresentations about fund managers having “skin in the game” along with investors in the $1 […]

The following information is from FINRA’s website under “Disciplinary Actions, March, 2012:   Scott David Mason (CRD #3270983, Registered Principal, Debary, Florida)   submitted an Offer of Settlement in which he was suspended from association with any FINRA member in any capacity for 18 months and required to requalify by examination prior to associating with […]