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According to the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) BrokerCheck website, a customer filed a complaint against Teutonico (CRD# 2875434) on November 23, 2015 for excessive trading. This is the eleventh disclosure on his checkered broker report and the fifth in the last year. Teutonico has been employed by Network 1…
After serving 10 years in prison for prior securities law violations, investment fraud orchestrator Edward Durante is back in the news for allegations of a penny stock pump-and-dump scheme. Durante was criminally charged in December 2015 by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York and civilly…
A grand jury of the U.S District Court in Spartanburg, S.C. indicted former broker Claus C. Foerster (CRD# 1912949) for defrauding clients of $2.8 million over a 14-year period. Foerster perpetrated the fraud from 2000 to June 2014 while employed as a financial advisor at Smith Barney & Co., Morgan…
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Inc. (“FINRA”) charged a broker for lying to a Native American tribe about $11 million in commissions he accumulated when he sold the tribe $190 million in nontraded real estate investment trusts and business development companies. According to the complaint, Gopi Krishna Vungarala (CRD# 4856193),…
Silver Law Group is investigating allegations made by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (“FINRA”) against former Hollywood, Florida broker Daniel G. Kasbar (CRD# 5869994). FINRA barred Kasbar from the securities industry for failing to respond to FINRA’s requests for documents and information. FINRA was investigating Kasbar for allegedly engaging in…
Dallas securities broker Wade Lawrence was given a three-year prison sentence January 20, 2015 by a Texas federal judge after pleading guilty to offering false investments that defrauded his friends and business associates out of more than $1.5 million for his own benefit. The federal court also ordered Lawrence, 43,…
According to FINRA Disciplinary actions for January 2016, the following individuals were barred from FINRA and cannot currently work for a FINRA brokerage firm for failing to provide FINRA with information it requested or to keep information current with FINRA pursuant to FINRA rules: NAME FORMER EMPLOYERS Antonio Ambrosio…
According to FINRA Disciplinary actions for January 2016, the following individuals were suspended from FINRA and cannot currently work for a FINRA brokerage firm for failing to provide FINRA with information it requested or to keep information current with FINRA pursuant to FINRA rules: NAME FORMER EMPLOYERS Raymond Aleksey…
According to FINRA Disciplinary actions for January 2016, the following individuals were suspended from FINRA for failing to comply with a FINRA arbitration award or settlement agreement pursuant to FINRA rules: NAME FORMER EMPLOYERS William Walter Almond Morgan Stanley New England Securities William Austin Bailey …
Silver Law Group is investigating customer complaints against Wells Fargo advisor Robert M. Giusti (“Giusti”) located in New York, NY. There are four customer complaints against Giusti and one civil action alleging a number of securities law violations, including unsuitable investments, misrepresentations, negligence, unauthorized use of margin funds, and excessive…