{"id":18367,"date":"2019-10-15T09:12:07","date_gmt":"2019-10-15T14:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/?p=18367"},"modified":"2019-10-15T09:12:07","modified_gmt":"2019-10-15T14:12:07","slug":"ssek-investigates-leonard-kinsman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/ssek-investigates-leonard-kinsman\/","title":{"rendered":"Shepherd Smith Edwards and Kantas Investigates Ex-Wells Fargo Broker Leonard Kinsman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">investor fraud lawyers <\/a>at SSEK Law Firm are looking into claims involving former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/search\/?query=wells+fargo&amp;Search=\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Wells Fargo (WFC) <\/a>broker Leonard Kinsman (Kinsman). Kinsman currently still faces at least two customer complaints that were brought before the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.finra.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA)<\/a>, one claim involves a New Jersey widow and mother of three who is accusing him of defrauding her family of their life savings.<\/p>\n<p>Until July 2019, Kinsman belonged to the Wells Fargo Financial Network of brokers that operate independently, even as they use the bank\u2019s compliance software and investment systems. No details have been provided into how or why he is no longer affiliated with the firm&#8217;s broker network.<\/p>\n<p>According to the <em><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New York Post<\/a><\/em>, the widow began working with Kinsman in 2012 when he was still a Merrill Lynch broker and after her husband had passed away. She requested that Kinsman place her money, a $2.27M life insurance settlement, in conservative, diversified investments that promoted long-term growth so she could support her family off the interest.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/ssek-investigates-leonard-kinsman\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Shepherd Smith Edwards and Kantas Investigates Ex-Wells Fargo Broker Leonard Kinsman\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our investor fraud lawyers at SSEK Law Firm are looking into claims involving former Wells Fargo (WFC) broker Leonard Kinsman (Kinsman). Kinsman currently still faces at least two customer complaints that were brought before the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), one claim involves a New Jersey widow and mother of three who is accusing him [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18346,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3773,3783,3774],"tags":[4201,3022],"class_list":["post-18367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broker-fraud","category-broker-misconduct","category-broker-dealers","tag-leonard-kinsman","tag-wells-fargo"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Shepherd Smith Edwards and Kantas Investigates Ex-Wells Fargo Broker Leonard Kinsman &#8212; Investor Lawyers Blog &#8212; October 15, 2019<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Our investor fraud lawyers at SSEK Law Firm are looking into claims involving former Wells Fargo (WFC) broker Leonard Kinsman.\" \/>\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\/ssek-investigates-leonard-kinsman\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Shepherd Smith Edwards and Kantas Investigates Ex-Wells Fargo Broker Leonard Kinsman &#8212; 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