Nearly years after settling two 401K lawsuits for $12 million, participants in Fidelity Investments’ retirement plan are once more suing the firm. The plaintiffs allege that self-dealing cost them money while allowing the financial firm and a number of its affiliated entities to turn a profit. According to the complaint in Moitoso et al v….
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority has barred another former Morgan Stanley (MS) broker. John Halsey Buck III consented to the industry bar after he did not provide the information and documents that the self-regulatory organization asked for related to its probe into his alleged involvement in unapproved private securities sales. Buck, who has over 50…
Man is Convicted in $2.2M Investment Fraud A federal jury has convicted a Pennsylvania man on 16 counts of securities fraud, 12 counts of wire fraud, four counts of money laundering, one count of mail fraud, and one count of tax evasion in a $2.2M investment scam. Thomas H. Connerton is accused of defrauding 50…
26-Year Old Mayor is Arrested and Accused of Investor Fraud Jasiel Correira, who is the mayor of Fall River, Massachusetts, has pleaded not guilty to multiple criminal counts of wire fraud and tax fraud. The 26-year-old was arrested this week following allegations that he defrauded investors of over $230K. Correira maintains that the investor fraud…
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority announced this week that it is barring three former brokers. They are ex-Morgan Stanley broker (MS) Kevin Smith and former Wells Fargo (WFC) brokers Wilfred Rodriquez Jr. and Thomas A. Davis. According to the self-regulatory authority’s order, the bar against Smith comes after he wouldn’t appear before FINRA to testify…
Wayde McKelvy, who is accused of playing a key role in a $54M Ponzi scam that targeted unsophisticated investors, is on trial before a federal jury. According to the US government, McKelvy, who is a former co-owner of Mantria Corp., and two others allegedly sold fake investments in green energy and land to investors, including…
Investors Sue Goldstone Financial Group Over 1 Global Capital Sales Investors have filed a proposed class action securities fraud case against Goldstone Financial Group LLC, their principals Anthony Pellegrino and Michael Pellegrino, and their defunct Pell Corp. Brothers Inc. The plaintiffs contend that the financial services firm sold illegal securities in payday lender 1 Global…
SII Investments to Pay Back Clients Over Nontraded REITs Massachusetts Secretary of the Commonwealth William Galvin is ordering SII Investments Inc. to repay clients who purchased non-traded real estate investment trusts through the independent brokerage firm. According to Galvin’s office, SII did not properly supervise these transactions. It was last year that the Massachusetts regulator…
In multiple federal civil complaints alleging binary options fraud, the US Securities and Exchange Commission is accusing a number of marketers of defrauding at least 75,000 investors—including retired investors and other retail investors, through the use videos that made false promises that they could make money fast. Investors were allegedly bilked of tens of millions…
Citigroup Must Pay Over $12M Over Dark Pool Allegations To settle Securities and Exchange Commission that it misled users of a dark pool run by an affiliate , Citigroup Global Markets Inc. (CGMI) and the affiliate, Citi Order Routing and Execution (CORE), will pay $12M. The regulator contends that Citigroup (C) misled users when it…
