Securities Lawyers Blog
Presidential Brokerage, Inc. (Presidential Brokerage) advisor Jason McBride (McBride) has been subject to at least five customer complaints. According to a BrokerCheck report many of the customer complaints concern alternative investments and direct participation products (DPPs) such as non-traded real estate investment trusts (REITs), oil & gas programs, annuities, and equipment leasing programs. The attorneys at Gana Weinstein LLP have extensive experience handling investor losses caused by these types of products.
In May 2018 a client alleged that McBride made unsuitable investments, breached his fiduciary duty, was negligent, and made misrepresentations in the purchase of two REITs and a limited partnership between February 2006 and august 2008. The complaint claims $251,317 in damages and is currently pending.
Our firm often handles cases involving direct participation products, Non-Traded REITs, oil and gas offerings, equipment leasing products, and other alternative investments. These products are almost always unsuitable for investors. In addition, the brokers who sell them are paid additional commission in order to hype inferior quality investments which provides a perverse incentives by brokers to create an artificial market for products that no honest advisor would sell.