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A Financial Industry Regulatory Authority panel (FINRA)<\/a> has awarded one of our clients, a 91-year-old widow, $550K in her Texas broker-dealer fraud case<\/a> against UBS Financial Services (UBS)<\/a>. The claimant, who is from Texas, contends in her Houston senior investor fraud case <\/a>that because her UBS broker made unsuitable investments on her behalf, she lost hundreds of thousands of dollars in her retirement accounts.<\/p>\n

While the FINRA arbitration award doesn\u2019t name the broker, Shepherd Smith Edwards and Kantas lawyer David Miller<\/a> identified him as former UBS broker William Andrew Hightower. Attorney Miller said that Hightower, who headed up Hightower Capital Group, recommended that the claimant invest in leveraged and inverse exchange traded products and structured products, \u00a0as well as his own private investments. These investments were not suitable for her.<\/p>\n

Hightower is now accused of operating a $10M Ponzi fraud. Among the unsuitable investments that he made on our client’s \u00a0behalf were those involving private placements Reproductive Research Technologies and Isospec Technologies, which were part of his alleged scam, and one fake private annuity.<\/p>\n

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A Financial Industry Regulatory Authority panel (FINRA) has awarded one of our clients, a 91-year-old widow, $550K in her Texas broker-dealer fraud case against UBS Financial Services (UBS). 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