The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) filed a civil enforcement complaint on October 18th., against Bambi Holzer, Beverly Hills broker and chairman of Wealth & Income Management Group, Beverly Hills, for allegedly selling seven investors worthless privately issued securities and for allegedly lying to FINRA in regulatory documents. According to Reuters, many of Holzer's clients […]

The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) filed a civil enforcement complaint on October 18th., against Bambi Holzer, Beverly Hills broker and chairman of Wealth & Income Management Group, Beverly Hills, for allegedly selling seven investors worthless privately issued securities and for allegedly lying to FINRA in regulatory documents. According to Reuters, many of Holzer's clients […]

A Minnesota attorney and two San Francisco-area hedge fund promoters defrauded investors of more than $21 million by concealing the financial collapse of the fund's only borrower. The individuals raised more than $21 million from investors in the Capital Solutions Monthly Income Fund after the fund's sole business partner, Hennessy Financial, defaulted in May 2008, […]

Jason T. Knapp, Corinth, New York, was arrested in connection with a nationwide Ponzi scheme, which allegedly involves hundreds of thousands of dollars. Knapp was a registered representative of Dawson James Securities of Boca Raton, FL, and had raised investment capital with a company call SteepleChase Group, making claims that returns on investments would be […]

Securities Attorney, Lars Soreide, of Soreide Law Group was recently quoted in an article from the Reno Gazette-Journal, written by Jaclyn O’Malley regarding former broker Gary Harrison Lane. The quote reads as follows: "Florida securities attorney Lars Soreide said Tuesday he has represented a few clients who have recently settled with broker firms connected to […]

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced that it obtained an emergency court order to halt an alleged Ponzi-like scheme operated by Small Business Capital Corp. and its principal Mark Feathers, who raised $42 million by selling securities issued by Investors Prime Fund LLC and SBC Portfolio Fund LLC - two mortgage investment funds they […]

The following is an article from the Reno Gazette-Journal, from Sept. 4th., 2012, written by Jaclyn O'Malley: Former Reno financial advisor indicted by feds related to ponzi scheme Sep 04 A former Reno financial advisor has been indicted on federal charges related to duping elderly and inexperienced investors of at least $2 million with a […]

Thomas Edward Kelly (CRD #1386403, Registered Principal, Johnson City, New York) was barred from association with any FINRA member in any capacity. Without admitting or denying the findings, Kelly consented to the described sanction and to the entry of findings that he engaged in a scheme to defraud investors, including firm customers, of funds totaling […]

  Thomas Brown Hammond (CRD #2389080, Registered Representative, Fair Oaks, California) was barred from association with any FINRA member in any capacity.  Hammond consented to the described sanction and to the entry of findings that he solicited both his brokerage firm customers and customers of his consulting business to invest funds in a fictitious private […]