{"id":1516,"date":"2014-09-16T18:25:38","date_gmt":"2014-09-16T18:25:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stockbrokerfraudblog.com\/2014\/09\/morgan_stanley_to_pay_a_280000_1"},"modified":"2022-03-11T09:18:45","modified_gmt":"2022-03-11T15:18:45","slug":"morgan-stanley-to-pay-a-280000-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/morgan-stanley-to-pay-a-280000-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Morgan Stanley to Pay a $280,000 Fine to CFTC for Records and Supervision Failures Involving SureInvestment and $35M Ponzi Scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tMorgan Stanley Smith Barney, LLC (MS) has settled civil charges by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) accusing the firm of records violations and inadequate supervision involving its know-your-customer procedures. Aside from a $280,000 fine, the broker-dealer will have to disgorge commissions from the subject accounts involved.<\/p>\n<p>According to the regulator, Morgan Stanley did not diligently oversee its employees, officers, and agents when they opened firm accounts for a family of companies known as SureInvestment, which purportedly ran a hedge fund that was partially based in the British Virgin Islands-considered to be a risky jurisdiction. Because of this geographic circumstance, when the accounts were opened the firm should have subjected them to special observation pursuant to its procedures, including watching out for red flags indicating suspect activities.<\/p>\n<p>The CFTC&#8217;s order, however, notes that even though there were a number of red flags in the account opening documents for SureInvestments, Morgan Stanley failed to identify them. Later, it was discovered that SureInvestment doesn&#8217;t even exist and that its owner, Benjamin Wilson, was conducting a $35 million Ponzi scam based in the U.K. (Wilson, who has pleaded to criminal charges brought by the Financial Conduct Authority, has been sentenced to time behind bars.)<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/morgan-stanley-to-pay-a-280000-1\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Morgan Stanley to Pay a $280,000 Fine to CFTC for Records and Supervision Failures Involving SureInvestment and $35M Ponzi Scam\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, LLC (MS) has settled civil charges by the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) accusing the firm of records violations and inadequate supervision involving its know-your-customer procedures. Aside from a $280,000 fine, the broker-dealer will have to disgorge commissions from the subject accounts involved. According to the regulator, Morgan Stanley did [&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":[3810,3752,3777,3787],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cftc","category-financial-firms","category-inadequate-supervision","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 to Pay $280,000 for Records and Supervision Failures &#8212; Investor Lawyers Blog<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Morgan Stanley has settled civil charges by the U.S. CFTC accusing the firm of records violations and inadequate supervision failures.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/morgan-stanley-to-pay-a-280000-1\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Morgan Stanley to Pay $280,000 for Records and Supervision Failures &#8212; 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