UBS Loses Another Puerto Rico Bonds & Closed-End Fund Case More than six years after thousands of investors lost many millions of dollars from investing in Puerto Rico bonds and closed-end bond funds, UBS Puerto Rico (UBS-PR) is still being held to account for the financial losses faced by many…
Shepherd, Smith, Edwards & Kantas (“SSEK”), a national law firm specializing in representing wronged investors, is looking into allegations against Mengxuan Zhang, previously employed by Cetera Investment Services out of Pasadena, CA. According to allegations, Ms. Zhang allegedly falsified customer signature pages on new account forms for some customers of…
SSEK Investigates Capital Financial Investments And Ex-Broker Sean Kelly Over Investor Claims At the heart of recent investor claims against Capital Financial are allegations against one of its ex-brokers, Sean Kelly. Sean Kelly was accused last year by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) of defrauding a dozen investors.…
New Class Action Offers Details Into Alleged GPB Ponzi Scam This week in Austin, Texas, another proposed class securities case was filed on behalf of investors of GPB Capital Holdings and its many funds. This latest investor lawsuit directly accuses the alternative asset firm and its executives of running an…
The New Jersey Bureau of Securities has revoked the registration license of First Standard Financial Company, a broker-dealer based in Red Bank, NJ. The move comes in the wake of allegations that First Standard and its representatives engaged in improper short-term trading, causing them to illegally make over $28.7M in…
Morgan Stanley Ordered To Pay Over $300K In Fines And Restitution Secretary of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, William Galvin, is ordering Morgan Stanley (MS) to pay a $200K fine, as well as $182K in restitution to four customers who suffered losses while working with former broker Justin E. Amaral. The…
Cetera Advisors Fraud Case Rises To $21M Two months after suing Cetera Advisors for more than $10M for allegedly defrauding retail clients, the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has amended its complaint, adding another Cetera Financial Group firm as a defendant. The regulator is now seeking $21M. According to…
SSEK Investigating Ex-Raymond James Advisor, Stuart Nichols Another former Raymond James advisor has gotten into trouble over fraud allegations. The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) recently barred Stuart Nichols, a former broker with the firm, after he failed to participate in the self-regulatory authority’s probe into churning allegations made against…
Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) has fined former Texas broker Steven Yellen $25K for allegedly making unauthorized trades while he was a registered representative for both Ameriprise (AMP) and Morgan Stanley (MS). The self-regulatory authority (SRO) notes at least 30 instances in which Yellen executed trades without customer authorization. After…
Shepherd, Smith, Edwards & Kantas (“SSEK”), a law firm specializing in representing wronged investors, is looking into allegations against Financial West Group and its broker Daniel Gordon Maughan. It is alleged that Maughan excessively traded and churned a client’s Trust Account at his member firm. A arbitration complaint has already…