{"id":592,"date":"2016-12-16T21:28:13","date_gmt":"2016-12-17T02:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/elderfinancialfraudattorneys.com\/?p=592"},"modified":"2018-10-04T15:33:57","modified_gmt":"2018-10-04T19:33:57","slug":"alleged-elder-financial-abuse-laws","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.silverlaw.com\/blog\/alleged-elder-financial-abuse-laws\/","title":{"rendered":"Broker Joseph Butler Barred and Fined by FINRA for Allegedly Defying Elder Financial Abuse Laws"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/elderfinancialfraudattorneys.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/iStock-487292154.jpg\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-593\" title=\"Elder Financial Abuse Laws\" src=\"http:\/\/elderfinancialfraudattorneys.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/iStock-487292154-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Broker Joseph Butler Barred and Fined by FINRA for Alleged Elder Financial Abuse - Laws elderfinancialfraudattorneys.com\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" data-id=\"593\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.silverlaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/iStock-487292154-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.silverlaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/iStock-487292154-768x511.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.silverlaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/iStock-487292154-1024x681.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.silverlaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/iStock-487292154-1000x665.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.silverlaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/iStock-487292154-181x120.jpg 181w, https:\/\/www.silverlaw.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/iStock-487292154.jpg 1256w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2>One allegation against the former Innovation Partners LLC broker involved using an elderly client\u2019s funds for his own benefit<\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Joseph Butler is no longer allowed to conduct business through any member of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA). The former broker was notified in October of 2016 that he has been permanently barred by FINRA due to several allegations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It was reported that on different occasions, while working for Innovation Partners LLC out of Charlotte, NC, Butler withdrew funds from a client\u2019s money market account and used some of it to pay outstanding tax payments he owed to the state of Maryland, with the rest going into his own personal bank account. The total amount of money he was alleged to have taken was $114,250. Butler\u2019s business was called Future Security, Inc.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.silverlaw.com\/blog\/alleged-elder-financial-abuse-laws\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Broker Joseph Butler Barred and Fined by FINRA for Allegedly Defying Elder Financial Abuse Laws\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One allegation against the former Innovation Partners LLC broker involved using an elderly client\u2019s funds for his own benefit Joseph Butler is no longer allowed to conduct business through any member of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA). The former broker was notified in October of 2016 that he has been permanently barred by FINRA [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1102],"tags":[1104,9],"class_list":["post-592","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-elder-financial-abuse","tag-finra"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Joseph Butler : Elder Financial Fraud Alert<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Broker Joseph Butler allegedly withdrew funds from an elderly client&#039;s account after he realized their health was on the decline. 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