In April 2020 a customer complained that Radoo violated the securities laws by alleging that Radoo engaged in sales practice violations related to offering the investor an investment in an unapproved outside business activity that involved a cannabis cultivation company. Claimant states that the firm, failed to supervise the representative’s outside business activity. The claim is currently pending.
In December 2019 Next Financial Investments terminated Radoo after alleging that he engaged in unreported, unapproved outside business activities.
Radoo’s outside business activities disclosed on his publicly available BrokerCheck report include Energy Consulting, Legal Cannabis Cultivation, and real estate rental properties.
Our law firm has significant experience bringing cases on behalf of defrauded victims when their advisors engage in receiving loans from clients or selling securities sales through OBAs. The sale of unapproved investment products – is a practice known in the industry as “selling away” – a serious violation of the securities laws. In the industry the term selling away refers to when a financial advisor solicits investments in companies, promissory notes, or other securities that are not pre-approved by the broker’s affiliated firm. Sometimes those investments have some legitimacy but often times these types of investments can end up being Ponzi schemes or the advisor can be engaging in the conversion of funds.
However, federal securities laws and the FINRA rules require firms to monitor and supervise its employees in order to detect and prevent brokers from offering investments in this fashion. In order to properly supervise their brokers each firm is required to have procedures in order to monitor the activities of each advisor’s activities and interaction with the public. Selling away misconduct often occurs where brokerage firms either fail to put in place a reasonable supervisory system or fail to actually implement that system. Supervisory failures allow brokers to engage in unsupervised misconduct that can include all manner improper conduct including selling away.
In cases of selling away the investor is unaware that the advisor’s investments are improper. In many of these cases the investor will not learn that the broker’s activities were wrongful until after the investment scheme is publicized, the broker is fired or charged by law enforcement, or stops returning client calls altogether.
Radoo entered the securities industry in 1994. From May 2008 until December 2019 Radoo was associated with Next Financial out of the firm’s North Woodmere, New York office location.
Investors who have suffered losses are encouraged to contact us at (800) 810-4262 for consultation. Investors may be able recover their losses through securities arbitration. The attorneys at Gana Weinstein LLP are experienced in representing investors in cases of selling away and brokerage firms failure to supervise their representatives. Our consultations are free of charge and the firm is only compensated if you recover.