{"id":5181,"date":"2017-12-04T17:36:14","date_gmt":"2017-12-04T22:36:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/silverlaw.lawblogger.net\/blog\/?p=5181"},"modified":"2017-12-08T18:48:13","modified_gmt":"2017-12-08T23:48:13","slug":"silver-law-group-investigates-barry-kornfeld-first-financial-tax-group-sale-woodbridge-products-retirees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.silverlaw.com\/blog\/silver-law-group-investigates-barry-kornfeld-first-financial-tax-group-sale-woodbridge-products-retirees\/","title":{"rendered":"Silver Law Group Investigates Barry Kornfeld and First Financial Tax Group for the Sale of Woodbridge Products to Retirees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Silver Law Group<\/strong> is investigating claims related to <strong>Barry Kornfeld<\/strong> and <strong>First Financial Tax Group<\/strong> for the sale of investment products issued by the <strong>Woodbridge Group of Companies<\/strong> as safe alternatives for income seeking retirees.<\/p>\n<p>Barry Kornfeld (\u201cKornfeld\u201d) is the owner of First Financial Tax Group in Boca Raton, FL and teaches Baby Boomer Retirement Courses at Florida Atlantic University. Kornfeld is alleged to have sold short-term mortgage notes issued by the Woodbridge Group of Companies (\u201cWoodbridge\u201d) to retirees seeking safe, conservative, income alternatives. Barry Kornfeld was barred in July 2010 by both the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (\u201cSEC\u201d) and the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (\u201cFINRA\u201d) from acting as a broker or investment adviser or otherwise associating with firms that sell securities or provide investment advice to the public.<\/p>\n<p>Woodbridge is currently the subject of a SEC probe for the possible fraudulent sale of securities to investors. Woodbridge filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy today citing costs of expansion, litigation, and a government fraud investigation as the reason. According to Woodbridge Wealth\u2019s website, Woodbridge offers First Position Commercial Mortgages, Secondary Market Annuities and a Commercial Bridge Loan Fund.\u00a0Woodbridge has reportedly raised approximately 1 billion dollars from investors around the country through agents such as Barry Kornfeld and First Financial Tax Group.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.silverlaw.com\/blog\/silver-law-group-investigates-barry-kornfeld-first-financial-tax-group-sale-woodbridge-products-retirees\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Silver Law Group Investigates Barry Kornfeld and First Financial Tax Group for the Sale of Woodbridge Products to Retirees\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Silver Law Group is investigating claims related to Barry Kornfeld and First Financial Tax Group for the sale of investment products issued by the Woodbridge Group of Companies as safe alternatives for income seeking retirees. Barry Kornfeld (\u201cKornfeld\u201d) is the owner of First Financial Tax Group in Boca Raton, FL and teaches Baby Boomer Retirement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574,582,576],"tags":[709,710,711,708],"class_list":["post-5181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-investigations","category-elder-fraud","category-unsuitable-investment-advice","tag-barry-kornfeld","tag-first-financial-tax-group","tag-woodbridge-group-of-companies","tag-woodbridge-wealth"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Silver Law Group Investigates Barry Kornfeld and First Financial Tax Group for the Sale of Woodbridge Products to Retirees &#8212; Securities Arbitration Lawyers Blog &#8212; December 4, 2017<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Silver Law Group is investigating claims related to Barry Kornfeld and First Financial Tax Group for the sale of investment products issued by the &#8212; 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