Articles Tagged with Red River Securities

A Financial Industry Regulatory Authority hearing panel has expelled a Plano, Texas-based brokerage firm from the industry, barred its CEO, and ordered both of them to pay customers $24.6M in restitution. Red River Securities LLC and Brian Keith Hardwick are accused of engaging in fraudulent sales involving five oil and gas joint ventures. Of the more than $25M that customers invested in the oil and gas offerings, they were paid distributions of under $500K in total.

According to the Texas securities case, the regulator claims that over a four-year period, Hardwick and the Texas brokerage firm purposely and fraudulently misrepresented and left out material facts related to interests in oil and gas joint ventures that were issued by affiliate Regal Energy LLC issued. Also, contends the SEc;

· The oil and gas ventures failed to properly represent how much income was distributed to investors in other Regal Entity joint ventures.

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