The investment lawyers of Gana Weinstein LLP are investigating the LPL Financial LLC’s (LPL) termination of former broker Christopher Russell (Russell) working out of the Huntsville, Alabama office. LPL terminated Russell in November 2016. According to the firm’s Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) BrokerCheck filing the firm stated that Russell…
Our firm is investigating claims made by regulators and brokerage firms including LPL Financial LLC (LPL Financial) concerning broker Paul Dorion (Dorion). Dorion is currently not associated with any brokerage firm due to his bar by The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority’s (FINRA) in October 2016 for failing to response to…
Our firm is investigating claims made by The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) against broker Michael Babyak (Babyak), formerly associated with brokerage firms LPL Financial LLC (LPL) and Leigh Baldwin & Co., LLC (Leigh Baldwin). According to brokercheck, Babyak consented to the sanction that he participated in private securities transactions…
Our firm’s investment attorneys are investigating a complaint filed by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Securities Division (Massachusetts) against LPL Financial LLC (LPL) and the firm’s broker Roger Zullo (Zullo) Zullo alleging that Zullo fabricated the financial suitability profiles of numerous LPL clients, selling them scores of large, illiquid, unsuitable, high-commission…
Our firm is investigating claims made by The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) against broker Dominic DeBruin (DeBruin), formerly associated with LPL Financial, LLC (LPL Financial). According to brokercheck, FINRA found that DeBruin refused to provide information and documents and to appear for on-the-record testimony as requested by FINRA concerning…
Our firm is investigating claims made by The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) against broker Joseph Likens (Likens). According to brokercheck, in Likens failed to respond to FINRA’s requests for information resulting in a bar. FINRA stated that Likens refused to appear for on-the-record testimony related an investigation into allegations…
Our firm is investigating claims made by The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) when the regulator barred broker Ken Balser (Balser). According to FINRA settlement, Balser consented to sanctions that he refused to appear for testimony and provide documents and information to FINRA concerning allegations that he engaged in private…
Our firm is investigating claims made by The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) against broker Michael Barranco (Barranco). According to BrokerCheck records Barranco is subject to one regulator complaint, one employment separation for cause, and one financial disclosure. The FINRA regulatory matter concerns an investigation surrounding alleged sales of private…
The investment fraud lawyers of Gana Weinstein LLP are investigating the employment termination filed with The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) by LPL Financial LLC (LPL) involving broker Kevin Kuhlow (Kuhlow) out of the firm’s Los Gatos, California office. According to BrokerCheck records Kuhlow has been subject to seven customer…
The investment lawyers of Gana Weinstein LLP are investigating the regulatory action brought by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) against Brian Smit (Smit) formerly working out of the Sioux Falls, South Dakota office of LPL Financial LLC (LPL). LPL terminated Smit in August 2015 stating that the broker engaged…