The law offices of Gana Weinstein LLP are currently investigating claims that advisor Jeffrey Higgins (Higgins) has been accused by multiple investors of engaging in fraudulent misappropriation of their funds. Higgins was barred by a regulator for engaging in undisclosed investment activities including undisclosed outside business activities (OBAs). According to…
Advisor Heath Goldstein (Goldstein), currently employed by brokerage firm Western International Securities, Inc. (Western International) has been subject to at least 9 disclosures and customer complaints. According to a BrokerCheck report the customer complaints concern alternative investments such as direct participation products (DPPs) like business development companies (BDCs), non-traded real…
Advisor Megurditch Patatian (Patatian), formerly employed by brokerage firm Western International Securities, Inc. (Western International) has been subject to at least 13 disclosures of which nine are customer complaints, three are employment terminations for cause, and one is a regulatory action. According to a BrokerCheck report several of the customer…
The attorneys at Gana Weinstein LLP are investigating BrokerCheck records reports that broker Doron Kochavi (Kochavi), currently employed by Western International Securities, Inc. (Western International) has been subject to at least six customer complaints during the course of his career. According to records kept by The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority…
The law offices of Gana Weinstein LLP are currently investigating claims that advisor John Jaramillo (Jaramillo) has been accused by his former employer of selling a non-approved product among other allegations. According to records kept by The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) Jaramillo has been terminated by his prior employer,…
The attorneys at Gana Weinstein LLP are investigating BrokerCheck records reports that financial advisor Stuart Godin (Godin), currently employed by Western International Securities, Inc. (Western International) has been subject to at least eight customer complaints during the course of his career. According to records kept by The Financial Industry Regulatory…
The law offices of Gana Weinstein LLP are currently investigating advisor Paul Soll (Soll), formerly registered with Western International Securities, Inc. (Western International) and Financial West Group (FWG) out of Los Angeles, California. According to records kept by The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), Soll was barred from the financial…
According to BrokerCheck records financial advisor Michael Heath (Heath), currently employed by Infinity Financial Services (Infinity Financial) has been subject to one regulatory action, two employment terminations for cause, and one civil lien during his career. According to records kept by The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), the regulatory action…
According to BrokerCheck records kept by The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) advisors Clement Chichester (Chichester) and Brittney Sias (Sias), in October 2017, were terminated by their firm, Western International Securities, Inc. (Western International) based on allegations that they accepted a FINRA sanction. Chichester and Sias were barred from the…
According to BrokerCheck records The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) has filed a complaint against Dennis Mehringer (Mehringer) over allegations that Mehringer made unsuitable recommendations that caused a customer to engage in excessively expensive short-term trading of mutual fund Class A shares. According to FINRA, Mehringer repeatedly recommended, and caused…