{"id":1177,"date":"2013-01-03T13:56:36","date_gmt":"2013-01-03T13:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stockbrokerfraudblog.com\/2013\/01\/morgan_stanley_must_pay_exmana"},"modified":"2022-03-10T09:14:20","modified_gmt":"2022-03-10T15:14:20","slug":"morgan-stanley-must-pay-exmana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/morgan-stanley-must-pay-exmana\/","title":{"rendered":"Morgan Stanley Must Pay Ex-Manager $1M"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tA Financial Industry Regulatory Authority arbitration panel says that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/morgan-stanley-background-information.html\">Morgan Stanley (MS) <\/a>Smith Barney has to pay Gregory Carl Torretta $1 million. The financial firm&#8217;s ex-manager claims that he was forced to unfairly resign. <\/p>\n<p>Torretta had sought $8 million to $9 million for what he claims were wrongful termination and the breach of his employment contract. Torretta contends that Morgan Stanley had accused him of criticizing the performance of a branch manager, whom he was about to fire, and that he was going to take that person with him to another firm. The allegations surfaced after the branch manager, who was unhappy with the oversight, wrote Torretta implying that the latter had talked about leaving the brokerage firm and suggested that he also leave with him. The branch manager cc&#8217;ed Torretta&#8217;s boss on the email.<\/p>\n<p>Torretta says that the firm then told him he could either resign or be fired, so he resigned. He is now employed with Ameriprise Financial Services Inc. (AMP). The branch manager was letter let go. <\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/morgan-stanley-must-pay-exmana\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Morgan Stanley Must Pay Ex-Manager $1M\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Financial Industry Regulatory Authority arbitration panel says that Morgan Stanley (MS) Smith Barney has to pay Gregory Carl Torretta $1 million. The financial firm&#8217;s ex-manager claims that he was forced to unfairly resign. Torretta had sought $8 million to $9 million for what he claims were wrongful termination and the breach of his employment [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3752,3787],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-financial-firms","category-morgan-stanley"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Morgan Stanley Must Pay Ex-Manager $1M &#8212; Investor Lawyers Blog &#8212; January 3, 2013<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A Financial Industry Regulatory Authority arbitration panel says that Morgan Stanley (MS) Smith Barney has to pay Gregory Carl Torretta $1 million. 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