{"id":2596,"date":"2017-01-25T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-25T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/silverlaw.lawblogger.net\/blog\/prospera-broker-john-crook-investigation\/"},"modified":"2017-01-25T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-01-25T05:00:00","slug":"prospera-broker-john-crook-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.silverlaw.com\/blog\/prospera-broker-john-crook-investigation\/","title":{"rendered":"Prospera Broker John N. Crook Under Investigation After $4.8 Million Complaint Filed"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>Silver Law Group is investigating Macon, Georgia-based <a href=\"https:\/\/brokercheck.finra.org\/firm\/summary\/10740\" target=\"_blank\">Prospera Financial Services, Inc. (CRD# 10740<\/a>) broker <a href=\"https:\/\/brokercheck.finra.org\/individual\/summary\/2715424\" target=\"_blank\">John N. Crook (CRD# 2715424)<\/a> after a customer filed a $4.8 million complaint.<\/p>\n<p>According to Crook\u2019s FINRA BrokerCheck report, a customer filed a FINRA arbitration against Crook in August 2016 alleging churning and excessive trading, unauthorized trading, breach of fiduciary duty, fraud and intentional misrepresentation and omission, and negligence.\u00a0 The complaint alleges $4.8 million in damages.<\/p>\n<p>The $4.8 million claim follows Crook\u2019s termination by <a href=\"https:\/\/brokercheck.finra.org\/firm\/summary\/705\" target=\"_blank\">Raymond James &amp; Associates, Inc. (CRD# 705)<\/a>.\u00a0 Raymond James alleged that it had lost confidence in Crook after an internal review into a client complaint during which the Raymond James found that Crook did not respond candidly to a supervisory review of trading activity.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.silverlaw.com\/blog\/prospera-broker-john-crook-investigation\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Prospera Broker John N. Crook Under Investigation After $4.8 Million Complaint Filed\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Silver Law Group is investigating Macon, Georgia-based Prospera Financial Services, Inc. (CRD# 10740) broker John N. Crook (CRD# 2715424) after a customer filed a $4.8 million complaint. According to Crook\u2019s FINRA BrokerCheck report, a customer filed a FINRA arbitration against Crook in August 2016 alleging churning and excessive trading, unauthorized trading, breach of fiduciary duty, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[578],"tags":[233,234,235],"class_list":["post-2596","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-releases","tag-brokers-in-finra-complaint","tag-john-n-crook","tag-prospera-financial-services"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Prospera Broker John N. 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