The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced fraud charges against a Niles, Illinois businesswoman accused of misappropriating investor funds. The SEC’s complaint, filed in federal court in the Northern District of Illinois, alleges that Lucita A. Zamoras solicited investors for a promissory note program and subsequently misappropriated the investors’ funds. From at least October 2009 […]
The Securities and Exchange Commission today announced an emergency asset freeze and temporary restraining order against a Chicago-based investment adviser and his financial management company accused of scamming elderly investors out of millions of dollars. The SEC alleges that Daniel H. Glick and his unregistered investment advisory firm Financial Management Strategies (FMS) provided clients with […]
Action Taken on 35 of 51 Recommendations to Date The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) today released a status report on the recommendations made in the FINRA Dispute Resolution Task Force’s Final Report issued in December 2015. In July 2014, FINRA had formed a 13-member task force composed of individuals representing a broad range of interests in securities dispute resolution to consider […]
On January 3, 2017, Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, and William F. Sweeney Jr., the Assistant Director-in-Charge of the New York Field Office of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (“FBI”), announced that former Morgan Stanley financial advisor Barry Connell had been arrested and charged with wire fraud […]
Brian Egan, a former registered broker with Independent Financial Group. Egan was recently barred from the industry by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) for allegedly failing to disclose his trading activity in client accounts away from the firm. Egan was sanctioned by FINRA in August 2016 when he allegedly maintained and/or held trading authority […]