John Herman Fick (CRD #4197483, Registered Representative, Fuquay-Varina, North Carolina) was fined $5,000 and suspended from association with any FINRA member in any capacity for 18 months. This fine must be paid either upon Fick’s reassociation with a FINRA member firm after his suspension, or before the filing of any application or request for relief from any statutory […]

  Gary Lee Cousino (CRD #726486, Registered Representative, Mackinac Island, Michigan)   has been barred from association with any FINRA member in any capacity. Without admitting or denying the findings, Cousino consented to the described sanction and to the entry of findings that he failed to respond to FINRA requests for information regarding its investigation of […]

  James Thomas Corne (CRD #4184489, Registered Representative, Duncan, South Carolina)   fined $5,000 and suspended from association with any FINRA member in any capacity for three months.  Without admitting or denying the findings, Corne consented to the described sanctions and to the entry of findings that he falsified customers’ signatures on various securities and non-securities-related […]

  Edward D. Jones & Co., L.P. dba Edward Jones (CRD #250, St. Louis, Missouri)   was censured, fined $55,000 and ordered to pay $13,231.52, plus interest, in restitution to customers. Without admitting or denying the findings, the firm consented to the described sanctions and to the entry of findings that in corporate fixed income […]

Brent Robert Bishop (CRD #2348912, Registered Principal, Tulsa, Oklahoma) has been barred from association with any FINRA member in any capacity and ordered to pay restitution in the total amount of $58,000, plus interest, to customers. These sanctions were based on FINRA's findings that Bishop misappropriated funds from his member firm’s customers by intentionally converting $40,000 […]

  BGC Financial, L.P. (CRD #19801, New York, New York) was censured and fined $40,000 by FINRA. Without admitting or denying the findings, the firm consented to the described sanctions and to the entry of findings that it permitted a disqualified individual to associate with the firm without regulatory approval. These findings stated that the firm […]

Daniel Edward Becerril II (CRD #4489715, Registered Representative, Huntington Beach, California) has been barred from association with any FINRA member in any capacity and this sanction was based on FINRA's findings that Becerril made willful misrepresentations and omissions to his customer by telling her that he would invest an $11,500 inheritance in a mutual fund, when […]

Milton Charles Ault III (CRD #2157788, Registered Principal, Fountain Valley, California) was fined $75,000, he was suspended from association with any FINRA member in any capacity for two years and Ault was ordered to pay $312,916.06, plus interest, in restitution to investors. This fine must be paid either immediately upon Ault’s reassociation with a FINRA […]

  Alan Jay Davidofsky (CRD #1389312, Registered Representative, Delray Beach, Florida) has been fined by FINRA in the amount of $11,741.78, which represents disgorgement, and he has been barred from association with any FINRA member in any capacity. These sanctions were based on the findings that Davidofsky made unauthorized transactions in his customer’s account, controlled the customer’s […]