{"id":2510,"date":"2017-05-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-05-25T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/silverlaw.lawblogger.net\/blog\/douglas-w-studer-kovack-securities-florida\/"},"modified":"2018-10-08T12:37:30","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T16:37:30","slug":"douglas-w-studer-kovack-securities-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.silverlaw.com\/blog\/douglas-w-studer-kovack-securities-florida\/","title":{"rendered":"FINRA Bars Former Kovack Broker For Allegedly Naming Himself as Inheritor of 91-year-old Customer\u2019s Condo"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

FINRA has barred Fort Lauderdale, Florida-based broker Douglas W. Studer (CRD# 4440047)<\/a> for refusing to testify on the record in a FINRA-led investigation into whether Studer violated his employing firm\u2019s policy by being named in an elderly customer\u2019s estate documents to inherit the customer\u2019s waterfront condominium.<\/p>\n

Studer was employed by Kovack Securities Inc. (CRD# 44848)<\/a> until Kovack terminated him in July 2016, according to the Acceptance, Waiver and Consent (\u201cAWC\u201d)<\/a> entered into between Studer and FINRA.<\/p>\n

According to the AWC, FINRA began investigating Studer on August 2, 2016.\u00a0 Studer was asked to record testimony, but he refused to appear.\u00a0 Allegedly, Studer appeared on his 91-year-old customer’s estate documents and was to inherit the elderly customer\u2019s waterfront condominium.<\/p>\n

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FINRA has barred Fort Lauderdale, Florida-based broker Douglas W. Studer (CRD# 4440047) for refusing to testify on the record in a FINRA-led investigation into whether Studer violated his employing firm\u2019s policy by being named in an elderly customer\u2019s estate documents to inherit the customer\u2019s waterfront condominium. Studer was employed by Kovack Securities Inc. 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