{"id":2491,"date":"2017-06-06T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-06-06T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/silverlaw.lawblogger.net\/blog\/rafael-santigao-new-york-primary-capital\/"},"modified":"2018-10-08T12:37:23","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T16:37:23","slug":"rafael-santigao-new-york-primary-capital","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.silverlaw.com\/blog\/rafael-santigao-new-york-primary-capital\/","title":{"rendered":"New York City-based Broker Permanently Barred by FINRA; Allegation of VGTel Sale"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.silverlaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/iStock-617748082-300x200.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-3632\" src=\"https:\/\/www.silverlaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/iStock-617748082-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"What is the Senior Safe Act? on silverlaw.com\" width=\"426\" height=\"284\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.silverlaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/iStock-617748082-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.silverlaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/iStock-617748082-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.silverlaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/iStock-617748082-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.silverlaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/iStock-617748082.jpg 1254w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 426px) 100vw, 426px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/brokercheck.finra.org\/Individual\/2494647\" target=\"_blank\">Rafael Santiago (CRD# 2494647)<\/a> of New York, New York firm <a href=\"https:\/\/brokercheck.finra.org\/firm\/summary\/127921\" target=\"_blank\">Primary Capital, LLC (CRD# 127921)<\/a> is under investigation after being barred from the securities industry in April 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Santiago, according to his Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (\u201cFINRA\u201d) BrokerCheck report was barred by FINRA after he failed to respond to FINRA\u2019s request for information.\u00a0 Besides that misconduct disclosure on his FINRA BrokerCheck report, he has two other misconduct disclosures.<\/p>\n<p>Santiago has a FINRA arbitration complaint pending where the claimant alleges $495,000 in losses.\u00a0 The complaint, filed in September 2015, according to the BrokerCheck report involve the notorious VGTel stock and Santiago\u2019s involvement with VGTel promotion.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.silverlaw.com\/blog\/rafael-santigao-new-york-primary-capital\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading New York City-based Broker Permanently Barred by FINRA; Allegation of VGTel Sale\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rafael Santiago (CRD# 2494647) of New York, New York firm Primary Capital, LLC (CRD# 127921) is under investigation after being barred from the securities industry in April 2016. Santiago, according to his Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (\u201cFINRA\u201d) BrokerCheck report was barred by FINRA after he failed to respond to FINRA\u2019s request for information.\u00a0 Besides that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[583,580],"tags":[80,81,82,83,84],"class_list":["post-2491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sec-actions","category-stockbroker-misconduct","tag-edward-durante","tag-john-thomas-financial","tag-rafael-santiago","tag-sec-investigation","tag-vgtel"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>New York City-based Broker Permanently Barred by FINRA; Allegation of VGTel Sale &#8212; Securities Arbitration Lawyers Blog &#8212; June 6, 2017<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"If you&#039;ve lost money investing with New York-based Rafael Santiago, contact our firm to learn how you can recover your losses.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.silverlaw.com\/blog\/rafael-santigao-new-york-primary-capital\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"New York City-based Broker Permanently Barred by FINRA; 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