{"id":2486,"date":"2017-06-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-06T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/silverlaw.lawblogger.net\/blog\/willard-l-golightly-wfg-securities-america-texas-california\/"},"modified":"2018-10-08T12:37:15","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T16:37:15","slug":"willard-l-golightly-wfg-securities-america-texas-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.silverlaw.com\/blog\/willard-l-golightly-wfg-securities-america-texas-california\/","title":{"rendered":"Former California and Texas Broker Willard L. Golightly Under Investigation For Multiple Alleged Securities Violations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.silverlaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Picture1-1.png\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-3322\" src=\"https:\/\/www.silverlaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Picture1-1-300x200.png\" alt=\"Broker Michael Siegel Suspended and then Permanently Barred by FINRA \u2013 Investigation Update on silverlaw.com\" width=\"386\" height=\"257\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.silverlaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Picture1-1-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/www.silverlaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/Picture1-1.png 402w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 386px) 100vw, 386px\" \/><\/a>Silver Law Group is investigating former Fresno, California- and San Antonio, Texas-based broker <a href=\"https:\/\/brokercheck.finra.org\/individual\/summary\/4395250\" target=\"_blank\">Willard L. Golightly (CRD# 4395250)<\/a> after FINRA permanently barred him from engaging in certain activities in the securities industry.<\/p>\n<p>According to Golightly\u2019s FINRA BrokerCheck report, FINRA suspended Golightly in December 2016 after Golightly failed to comply with an arbitration award or settlement agreement or to respond to a FINRA inquiry.\u00a0 Including the suspension, Golightly has a litany of other disclosures on his FINRA BrokerCheck report.<\/p>\n<p>In September 2015, FINRA barred Golightly for inappropriately concentrating his customers in low-priced securities and failed to respond to red flags.\u00a0 Golightly additionally failed to maintain and enforce his member firm\u2019s written supervisory procedures.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.silverlaw.com\/blog\/willard-l-golightly-wfg-securities-america-texas-california\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Former California and Texas Broker Willard L. Golightly Under Investigation For Multiple Alleged Securities Violations\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Silver Law Group is investigating former Fresno, California- and San Antonio, Texas-based broker Willard L. Golightly (CRD# 4395250) after FINRA permanently barred him from engaging in certain activities in the securities industry. According to Golightly\u2019s FINRA BrokerCheck report, FINRA suspended Golightly in December 2016 after Golightly failed to comply with an arbitration award or settlement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[580],"tags":[61,62,63,64,65,66],"class_list":["post-2486","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-stockbroker-misconduct","tag-california","tag-securities-america","tag-tesax-group-1-insurance","tag-texas","tag-wfg-investments","tag-willard-l-golightly"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Former California and Texas Broker Willard L. 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