Securities Arbitration Lawyers BlogNick Son of Aegis Capital Corp
Nick Son (CRD #1178523) has been employed with Aegis Capital Corp since August 2014 and was also registered with Aegis from March 2010 to April 2011. Previous employment includes Alexander Capital, L.P. from March 2012 to August 2014, WTS Proprietary trading Group LLC from December 2011 to June 2012, Gunnallen Financial, Inc. form July 2002 to March 2010, Investprivate, Inc. from June 2001 to July 2002, Josephthal & Co., Inc. from July 1998 to May 2001, JW Charles Securities, Inc. from May 1997 to August 1997, Whale Securities Co., L.P. from September 1996 to May 1997 and State Capital Markets Corporation from December 1995 to September 1996.
According to the FINRA BrokerCheck, there have been complaints against Nick Son.
In 1996, while employed by State Capital Markets Corporation, Client alleges the stock offering from Cable and Fun Tyme were not registered in Texas; The sale of non-registered stock is a violation of Texas State securities Act 7A and is therefore illegal. Complaint was settled for $14,500.00.
In 2017, while employed by Joseph Gunnar, allegations shown without admitting or denying the findings, Sica consented to the sanctions and to the entry of findings that he made unsuitable recommendations to an elderly customer living on a fixed income. The findings stated that Sica repeatedly recommended that the customer purchase high-risk, speculative securities that were inconsistent with her investment profile. Sica’s recommendations often resulted in an undue concentration of the customer’s account, which represented substantially all of her liquid assets, in speculative securities. Further, Sica often engaged in short-term in-and-out trading of the speculative investments in the customer’s accounts causing substantial losses. Sica’s recommendations resulted in losses of more than $150,000. The findings also stated Sica engaged in unauthorized trading by placing trades in the IZRA accounts of a customer who Sica knew was deceased causing aggregated losses on the trades totaling approximately $3,039.
Iraggi is the subject of four disclosures, the most recent a disciplinary action by FINRA, as well as one employment discharge and two denied customer disputes. In the FINRA action, filed on 8/23/2018, Iraggi failed to notify his employer firm, Garden State Securities, that he had verbal authorization to exercise discretion in three customer accounts. Iraggi did not obtain written authorization from the clients, nor written authorization from the firm to service the accounts on a discretionary basis.
Diorio is the subject of four disclosures, the most recent filed on 2/12/2018. In it, the client alleges “unauthorized trading and unsuitable investment recommendations,” and requests damages of $769,690.00. Diorio steadfastly denies the charges. This case is currently pending.
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CTFC) filed orders today that brought and settled cases against two commodities firms engaged in unauthorized trading and two traders attempting to manipulate commodity prices.
On September 7, 2018, the SEC charged Aquino with defrauding customers by engaging in “churning” to generate excessive commissions for himself, in the amount of $930,000. Aquino’s customers lost a total of $881,000. At the time of these allegations, May 2014 through November 2017, Aquino was registered with Meyers Associates, L.P. (now known as Windsor Street Capital.) The SEC complaint also states that in 2015 and 2016, Aquino and an unnamed colleague engaged in cold-calling leads acquired from a publicly available database.
There are five customer disclosures in Logue’s record, the most recent of which was filed on 2/6/18. Two of these disputes were closed with no action, including the most recent one.
Davis’ most recent customer dispute was filed on 01/08/2018. In it, the customer alleges that Davis engaged in “misrepresentation, unsuitable and excessive trading, negligent supervision and breach of fiduciary duty.” The customer requests damages of $250,000. This case is currently listed as “pending.”
A customer dispute filed on 3/31/2016 alleges that Maddren “Failure to follow instructions, material misrepresentations and omissions, excessive trading and commissions, unauthorized trading, unsuitable recommendations, breach of contract. The customer requested damages of $1,000,000.00, and the case was settled for $295,000. Maddren denies the allegations, and was not named in the arbitration.
Herbert Voss, Jr. (