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Registered Rep.
December 1, 2004
Karen F. Donovan |
Raymond James Fights a Lonely Battle with the SEC After nearly two years of negotiations, the agency charged Raymond James Financial Services with civil fraud in connection with the conduct of a rogue broker who worked off-site as an independent rep in Cranston, R.I.   |
Registered Rep.
February 17, 2005
John Churchill |
From Brokerage House to the Big House Dennis Herula, the 59-year-old former Raymond James Financial Services broker who lavished himself with homes and other gifts using millions of dollars stolen from clients, was sentenced to 16 years in federal prison on Friday. |
Registered Rep.
September 21, 2005
Susan Konig |
Rogue Broker's Management Culpable Raymond James Financial Services (RJFS) was ordered to pay a $6.9 million fine to the SEC for failing to supervise Dennis Herula, a former broker who is currently in prison after pleading guilty to federal charges of fraud. |
Registered Rep.
October 1, 2005
Susan Konig |
Onus on OSJs and BOMs Regulatory agencies are now moving to hold higher-ups at brokerage firms personally liable when reps working for them are charged with illegal conduct. |
Registered Rep.
June 1, 2005
Karen Donovan |
No More Slap on the Wrist Regulators are getting tough and creative on registered reps because they suspect that fines aren't a strong enough deterrent to stop illegal behavior. |
Registered Rep.
October 23, 2007
David A. Geracioti |
If Allegations Prove True, File This Under: Stupid Broker The SEC has filed a complaint against a former LPL rep and branch manager, who, the SEC says, had been engaging in one of the oldest broker tricks in the book: stealing his clients money. |
Registered Rep.
February 21, 2007
John Churchill |
Who's Watching the Watcher? No One, Apparently The NASD fined Raymond James Financial Services $2.75 million today for inadequate sales supervision of its producing branch managers. |
Investment Advisor
September 2009 |
Broker/Dealer News Actions by the SEC and FINRA |
Investment Advisor
June 2009 |
B/D News & Products Important news for broker/dealers: The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) is proposing a major expansion of its BrokerCheck service... Fraud charges against several entities and individuals who operate the Reserve Primary Fund... more... |
InternetNews
September 21, 2007
David Needle |
Steve Jobs to Testify in Backdating Case Apple CEO Steve Jobs has reportedly been subpoenaed by the Securities and Exchange Commission to testify in a stock-options back-dating case against Apple's former general counsel, Nancy Heinen. |
InternetNews
August 9, 2006
Roy Mark |
Stock Options Scandal Hits Comverse Federal authorities charge Comverse Technology's former CEO and two others with criminal and civil complaints. |
Registered Rep.
September 23, 2008 |
SEC Charges Miami Broker Gary Gross Gary Gross has been charged with fraud by the SEC for selling his elderly clients unsuitable investments. |
Registered Rep.
September 1, 2005
Karen Donovan |
Under Siege Executives of broker/dealer firms are not exaggerating when they say it seems like regulators are locked into a competitive battle to collect the most pelts on Wall Street. |
Registered Rep.
December 16, 2005
Halah Touryalai |
Former Pru Broker Penalized for Abusive Trading Three years after the SEC charged five Boston-based Prudential Securities brokers for abusive mutual fund trading, one of the accused is being temporarily barred from association with any broker/dealer or investment advisor. |
Investment Advisor
March 2009
Melanie Waddell |
When It Pays to Fight City Hall An annual analysis of litigated disciplinary proceedings brought by the SEC and FINRA against broker/dealers and registered representatives shows that it sometimes pays for B/Ds and reps to litigate against the regulators. |
BusinessWeek
June 18, 2007
Dawn Kopecki |
Backdating: Why Penalties Are Puny The SEC considers options violations less serious than other kinds of financial fraud. |
Registered Rep.
July 30, 2012
Kristen French |
Blotter: August 2012 Among other actions, in July, the SEC charged former Connecticut resident Jerry S. Williams, a stock promoter, and two companies that he controlled, Monk's Den and First In Awareness, with civil fraud. |
Registered Rep.
February 4, 2010
Halah Touryalai |
NY AG Names Names -- Charges Ken Lewis With Fraud The New York Attorney General's office today charged Bank of America CEO Ken Lewis with fraud for failing to disclose material details about Merrill Lynch in its merger with the brokerage. |
BusinessWeek
May 20, 2010
Jesse Westbrook & David Scheer |
How Big a Hit Will Goldman Take? Congress and the public expect the SEC to extract a big fine |
InternetNews
December 15, 2004
Tim Gray |
Time Warner Settles Fraud Case Time Warner said today that it has agreed to pay $210 million in criminal and civil fines to settle a federal fraud case stemming from allegedly shady advertising deals within its America Online division. |
Registered Rep.
November 3, 2003
Will Leitch |
Fund Scandal Implicates Stockbrokers The mutual fund trading scandals headlines seemed to implicate mutual fund family executives and hedge funds -- everybody but individual retail brokers and brokerage management. But a new survey by the SEC charges brokers with abusive trading of mutual funds. |
InternetNews
February 22, 2007
Clint Boulton |
Veritas Dinged For $30M Veritas Software will fork over cash to investors harmed in fraudulent financial schemes. |
Registered Rep.
October 1, 2005 |
Blotter Lawyers, Drugs and Money... More Market-Timing Fallout... Bank of America in Hot Seat... |
InternetNews
March 2, 2007
Ed Sutherland |
McAfee Exec.: Not Guilty on Options Charges Former McAfee general counsel Kent Roberts, charged with fraud and lying to SEC, gets $1 million bail. |
Registered Rep.
January 2, 2013
Megan Leonhardt |
Blotter: January 2013 FINRA slapped a Pennsylvania advisor with a complaint in December after he allegedly forged client signatures to funnel client assets from one account to another, culminating in personal withdrawals of over $250,000. |
Registered Rep.
November 1, 2005
John Churchill |
Market-Timer Banned and Fined Theodore Sihpol III, a former broker at Banc of America Securities (BAS), and poster boy for the market-timing scandals -- and the first target of Spitzer to say no to a plea offer -- has settled with the SEC. |
Registered Rep.
April 1, 2008 |
Blotter The SEC has filed civil fraud charges against Linda Woolf and David Gengler, promoters of "Teach Me to Trade" classes... FINRA suspended and fined 16 current and former State Farm reps for misconduct related to FINRA's continuing education requirements... |
Registered Rep.
February 9, 2007
Kevin Burke |
SEC Big Says Waiver Tactics Can Backfire An SEC commissioner today said that asking broker/dealers and investment advisory firms to waive their legal right to attorney-client privilege in order to speed up the pace of enforcement investigations is shortsighted. |
Registered Rep.
March 1, 2008 |
Blotter SEC filed a civil action against five unregistered Florida brokers who were operating a pump-and-dump scheme... Third largest hedge fund fraud ever... |
Registered Rep.
September 2, 2009
John Churchill |
SEC Blew It With Madoff, Inspector General Says SEC Chairman Mary Schapiro announced the release today of the Office of the Inspector General's report on the Bernard Madoff fraud. It says, in short, the SEC screwed up in every way possible. |
Registered Rep.
April 1, 2007 |
Blotter Inside Job: The SEC charged 14 people in March in what one SEC official described as the biggest insider-trading scheme... Ponzi Scheming Manager: William Sirls, a former Wachovia branch manager was charged in early March with stealing... |
Registered Rep.
October 13, 2005
John Churchill |
Market-Timer Banned and Fined Theodore Sihpol III, the former broker at Banc of America Securities (BAS) and poster boy for the market-timing scandals, agreed to pay a $200,000 fine and to accept a five-year ban from the securities industry. |
Registered Rep.
June 1, 2012
Kristen French |
Blotter: June 2012 Mark Spangler, Nicholas Louis Geranio, and David Blech have each violated federal securities laws. |
IndustryWeek
January 20, 2010
Jill Jusko |
Not a Financial Exec? It's not only financial executives who could benefit from an awareness of fraud risks in their organizations. |
Registered Rep.
August 1, 2006
John Churchill |
Hall of Shame Robert Brennan: Found guilty of stock fraud and fined $75 million... Meyer Blinder: Sentenced to 46 months in prison for racketeering, money laundering and stock fraud in 1992... etc. |
BusinessWeek
October 21, 2009
Farzad & Francis |
The SEC's Tough New Offensive on Insider Trading It's using wiretaps, informants, and high-tech software, as well as teaming with key federal prosecutors, to nab wrongdoers fast. |
InternetNews
October 23, 2006
Ed Sutherland |
Online Brokers Hit By Fraudsters SEC and other regulators investigate millions in losses of E*Trade and TD Ameritrade customers. |
Registered Rep.
June 29, 2011
Kristen French |
Raymond James Hit With $300 million ARS Settlement; Pay Back For All ARS Clients The company has agreed to a multi-state settlement that will require the firm to buy back $300 million in auction rate securities it sold to clients prior to the collapse of the ARS market in February of 2008. |
Registered Rep.
November 1, 2006
John Churchill |
Blotter SEC Busts Another Ponzi... Broker Bends for Hedgies... NASD Says Firm Ignored Red Flags... |
InternetNews
August 18, 2006
Clint Boulton |
Comverse Fires Former Execs Over Options Scandal Comverse Technology has fired three of its top executives a week after they were charged with conspiracy to commit securities fraud, mail fraud and wire fraud. |
BusinessWeek
March 21, 2005
Amy Borrus |
Wall Street's Dirty Rotten Little Scoundrels The SEC has a new plan to turn up the heat on small-time Wall Street fraudsters. |
BusinessWeek
June 3, 2010
Jesse Westbrook |
The SEC's BlackBerry Compromise The agency will give employees BlackBerrys -- but won't demand that they keep them on weekends or after hours |
Investment Advisor
April 2009 |
Changes People on the move: Paul Reilly will replace current Chairman and CEO Tom James as CEO of Raymond James Financial... FINRA hires Richard (Rick) Ketchum as its CEO... |
CFO
October 1, 2002
Alix Nyberg |
Regulation: Pitt and the Pendulum The kinder, gentler SEC Pitt envisioned vanished faster than you can say Arthur Andersen. Can he run a tougher, meaner agency? |
InternetNews
July 21, 2006
Ed Sutherland |
Former Brocade Execs Charged in Stock Scandal Brocade becomes just the latest caught in the stock options mess. Feds say the company fraud cost investors millions. |
Investment Advisor
June 2007
Kara P. Stapleton |
News & Products NASD has fined two Fidelity broker/dealers for preparing and distributing misleading sales literature... The broker/dealers of ING plan to lower fees that their advisors pay on two core advisory programs... etc. |
The Motley Fool
November 11, 2011
John Reeves |
Banks Promise Not to Commit Fraud ... Until Next Time Banks have been signing pledges that they do not follow through on. |
Registered Rep.
June 24, 2009
John Churchill |
SEC Says Time To Tighten Rules On Money Market Funds After one of the oldest and largest money market funds suffered such severe redemptions that the net asset value of its shares fell below $1, the SEC is proposing structural and regulatory changes for money markets |
The Motley Fool
May 18, 2004
Rich Smith |
Lucent's Cloudy Picture Lucent settles one out of three SEC investigations it's facing. |
Registered Rep.
March 14, 2012
Diana Britton |
SEC Goes After Venture Capital B/D Over Sale of Facebook Shares The Securities and Exchange Commission has filed charges against New York-based venture capital broker/dealer Felix Investments and the firm's founder Frank Mazzola. |
