{"id":1455,"date":"2014-05-29T13:20:03","date_gmt":"2014-05-29T13:20:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stockbrokerfraudblog.com\/2014\/05\/stockbroker_fraud_news_morgan"},"modified":"2022-03-11T10:18:35","modified_gmt":"2022-03-11T16:18:35","slug":"stockbroker-fraud-news-morgan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/stockbroker-fraud-news-morgan\/","title":{"rendered":"Stockbroker Fraud: Morgan Stanley Sues Convicted Ex-Broker, Former-Wells Fargo Broker Pleads Guilty, And Ex-John Thomas Financial Broker Evades Customer Complaints"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<strong>Morgan Stanley Files Lawsuit Against Ex-Broker Convicted in Kickback Scam<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/morgan-stanley-background-information.html\">Morgan Stanley (MS)<\/a> is suing ex-broker Darin DeMizio for legal fees. DeMizio was convicted over his involvement in a kickback scheme. Now, the financial firm wants him to pay back legal expenses because it says that he purposely defrauded the broker-dealer and hid the fraud while working there. <\/p>\n<p>DeMizio was convicted five years ago for his scheme to pay kickbacks of $1.7 million to his brother and dad. He was sentenced to 38 months behind bars and ordered to pay Morgan Stanley $1.2 million in restitution.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/stockbroker-fraud-news-morgan\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Stockbroker Fraud: Morgan Stanley Sues Convicted Ex-Broker, Former-Wells Fargo Broker Pleads Guilty, And Ex-John Thomas Financial Broker Evades Customer Complaints\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Morgan Stanley Files Lawsuit Against Ex-Broker Convicted in Kickback Scam Morgan Stanley (MS) is suing ex-broker Darin DeMizio for legal fees. DeMizio was convicted over his involvement in a kickback scheme. Now, the financial firm wants him to pay back legal expenses because it says that he purposely defrauded the broker-dealer and hid the fraud [&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":[3787,3803,3836],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1455","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-morgan-stanley","category-senior-investors","category-wells-fargo"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Stockbroker Fraud: Morgan Stanley Sues Convicted Ex-Broker, Former-Wells Fargo Broker Pleads Guilty, And Ex-John Thomas Financial Broker Evades Customer Complaints &#8212; Investor Lawyers Blog &#8212; May 29, 2014<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Morgan Stanley Files Lawsuit Against Ex-Broker Convicted in Kickback Scam Morgan Stanley (MS) is suing ex-broker Darin DeMizio for legal fees. 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