{"id":2638,"date":"2017-01-04T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-04T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/silverlaw.lawblogger.net\/blog\/smashburger-investment-unsuitable-recommendations-texas-broker\/"},"modified":"2018-10-08T12:38:41","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T16:38:41","slug":"smashburger-investment-unsuitable-recommendations-texas-broker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.silverlaw.com\/blog\/smashburger-investment-unsuitable-recommendations-texas-broker\/","title":{"rendered":"Allegations of Unsuitable Recommendations in Smashburger by Former Texas-based Next Financial Group Broker Investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Silver Law Group is investigating former Texas-based <a href=\"https:\/\/brokercheck.finra.org\/firm\/summary\/46214\" target=\"_blank\">Next Financial Group, Inc. (CRD# 46214)<\/a> broker <a href=\"https:\/\/brokercheck.finra.org\/individual\/summary\/1271046\" target=\"_blank\">Tye Calvin Williams (CRD# 1271046)<\/a> after allegations of unsuitable investments in Smashburger and a FINRA permanent bar.<\/p>\n<p>According to Williams\u2019 FINRA BrokerCheck report, FINRA permanently barred Williams from acting as a broker or otherwise associating with firms that sell securities to the public in September 2016.\u00a0 According to the BrokerCheck report, Williams and FINRA entered into an Acceptance, Waiver &amp; Consent (\u201cAWC\u201d) to settle the allegations.<\/p>\n<p>According to that AWC, FINRA found that Williams failed to produce documents and information after being repeatedly requested to do so by FINRA.\u00a0 The findings stated that the documents and information requested by FINRA are related to an investigation regarding a customer complaint alleging that Williams converted over $1 million from customers\u2019 accounts, made unsuitable recommendations, and engaged in unauthorized transactions and mismanaged assets.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.silverlaw.com\/blog\/smashburger-investment-unsuitable-recommendations-texas-broker\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Allegations of Unsuitable Recommendations in Smashburger by Former Texas-based Next Financial Group Broker Investigation\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Silver Law Group is investigating former Texas-based Next Financial Group, Inc. (CRD# 46214) broker Tye Calvin Williams (CRD# 1271046) after allegations of unsuitable investments in Smashburger and a FINRA permanent bar. According to Williams\u2019 FINRA BrokerCheck report, FINRA permanently barred Williams from acting as a broker or otherwise associating with firms that sell securities to [&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":[],"class_list":["post-2638","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-releases"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Texas Broker Under Investigation; Smashburger Unsuitability<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"If you have lost money investing with Tye Calvin Williams and Next Financial Group, contact our firm to learn how you can try and 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\/smashburger-investment-unsuitable-recommendations-texas-broker\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Texas Broker Under Investigation; 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