{"id":2642,"date":"2016-12-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-29T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/silverlaw.lawblogger.net\/blog\/4-8-million-complaint-against-raymond-james-broker\/"},"modified":"2018-10-08T12:38:44","modified_gmt":"2018-10-08T16:38:44","slug":"4-8-million-complaint-against-raymond-james-broker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.silverlaw.com\/blog\/4-8-million-complaint-against-raymond-james-broker\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Raymond James Broker Subject to $4.8 Million Customer Complaint Following Termination"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Silver Law Group is investigating former <a href=\"https:\/\/brokercheck.finra.org\/firm\/summary\/705\" target=\"_blank\">Raymond James &amp; Associates, Inc. (CRD# 705) <\/a>\u00a0broker <a href=\"https:\/\/brokercheck.finra.org\/individual\/summary\/2715424\" target=\"_blank\">John Nelson Crook (CRD# 2715424)<\/a> after a customer filed a FINRA arbitration alleging $4.8 million in damages.<\/p>\n<p>According to Crook\u2019s FINRA BrokerCheck report, Crook\u2019s customer filed a FINRA arbitration against Crook alleging churning\/excessive trading and commissions; unauthorized trading; unsuitability; breach of fiduciary duty; fraud\/intentional misrepresentation and omission; negligence\/gross negligence; breach of contract; and violations of Georgia Blue Sky Law.\u00a0 The FINRA arbitration alleges damages in the amount of $4.8 million.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to the filing of the FINRA arbitration, Crook was discharged by Raymond James due to \u201closs of confidence\u201d in Crook.\u00a0 According to Crook\u2019s BrokerCheck report, Crook was terminated because he did not respond candidly to a supervisory review of Crook\u2019s trading activity in a customer\u2019s account and did not provide plausible explanations for said trading activity.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.silverlaw.com\/blog\/4-8-million-complaint-against-raymond-james-broker\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Former Raymond James Broker Subject to $4.8 Million Customer Complaint Following Termination\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Silver Law Group is investigating former Raymond James &amp; Associates, Inc. (CRD# 705) \u00a0broker John Nelson Crook (CRD# 2715424) after a customer filed a FINRA arbitration alleging $4.8 million in damages. According to Crook\u2019s FINRA BrokerCheck report, Crook\u2019s customer filed a FINRA arbitration against Crook alleging churning\/excessive trading and commissions; unauthorized trading; unsuitability; breach of [&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-2642","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>Former Raymond James Broker Subject to $4.8 Million Complaint<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"If you have lost money investing with John Crook and Raymond James &amp; Associates, contact our firm for information on 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\/4-8-million-complaint-against-raymond-james-broker\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Former Raymond James Broker Subject to $4.8 Million Complaint\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"If you have lost money investing with John Crook and Raymond James &amp; 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