Maxwell B. Smith III, 73, of Fair Haven, N.J., was sentenced to 15 years in prison for using $9.8 million of his elderly clients' savings to pay his mortgage, home renovations and vacations to France. Smith pleaded guilty to first-degree money laundering. Smith operated a $9 million Ponzi Scheme, Health Care Financial Partners, for 17 […]

The following information appeared on FINRA’s website under “Disciplinary and Other Actions, August, 2013.” Robert Gist (CRD #716088, Registered Representative, Atlanta, Georgia) was barred from association with any FINRA member in any capacity. Without admitting or denying the findings, Gist consented to the described sanction and to the entry of findings that he misappropriated several […]

Maxwell B. Smith, a financial advisor from New Jersey, was sentenced to seven years in prison for operating a $9 million Ponzi Scheme. Many clients lost their investments in Health Care Financial Partners. Smith sold investments as a fund that made loans to nursing homes. Smith began soliciting investors in the Ponzi Scheme as early […]

In an article posted in the Indianapolis Star yesterday, Thomas Redmond Jr., was convicted on securities fraud charges, and sentenced to four years in prison followed by six years on work release. Redmond was placed in handcuffs and taken to the Marion County Jail. Thomas Redmond, 61, was charged in April on 10 counts of […]

Soreide Law Group, PLLC, has begun investigating potential claims against Money Concepts Capital Corp. and broker, Gurudeo "Buddy" Persaud. The Securities and Exchange Commission charged a former broker in Orlando, Fla., who defrauded investors in an astrology-based Ponzi scheme. The SEC alleges that Gurudeo “Buddy” Persaud lured family, friends, and others into investing in his firm, White Elephant Trading […]

  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 […]

In a May 24th, 2012, article from Ft. Lauderdale's Sun-Sentinel, Jon Burstein writes that an investment adviser from Ft. Lauderdale, and others, exploited trust and friendships within the Ft. Lauderdale gay community of Wilton Manors to help fuel a multimillion-dollar investment fraud, according a lawsuit brought this week by a group of investors. There were fourteen residents of […]

It was announced today that a federal judge sentenced a 36-year-old Dallas man, Joseph Blimline, in connection with his role in a pair of complex, lucrative oil and gas Ponzi schemes that operated in Michigan and Texas, U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Texas John M. Bales announced. Joseph Blimline was sentenced to 240 months in federal […]

In a March, 2012, article for Forbes, Bill Singer writes that for the purpose of proposing a settlement of rule violations alleged by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (“FINRA”), without admitting or denying the findings, prior to a regulatory hearing and without an adjudication of any issue, AXA Advisors, LLC submitted a Letter of Acceptance, […]