{"id":18705,"date":"2020-02-03T09:05:48","date_gmt":"2020-02-03T15:05:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/?p=18705"},"modified":"2020-02-03T09:19:47","modified_gmt":"2020-02-03T15:19:47","slug":"edward-matthews-broker-fraud-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/edward-matthews-broker-fraud-investigation\/","title":{"rendered":"Shepherd Smith Edwards and Kantas Investigates Barred Mutual of Omaha Broker Edward Matthes"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Edward Matthes, Ex-Stockbroker Accused of Elder Investor Fraud\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sec.gov\/litigation\/litreleases\/2020\/lr24726.htm\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is accusing former broker, Edward Matthes of defrauding older investors of $2.4M. Matthes was a registered stockbroker and an investment advisor. The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) and the Wisconsin Department of Financial Institutions Securities Division have both permanently barred him.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) opened a probe into his alleged actions last year. Matthes was a registered Mutual of Omaha broker from 2012 &#8211; 2019 which was when the firm fired him. He worked in the industry for 20 years.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/edward-matthews-broker-fraud-investigation\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Shepherd Smith Edwards and Kantas Investigates Barred Mutual of Omaha Broker Edward Matthes\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Edward Matthes, Ex-Stockbroker Accused of Elder Investor Fraud\u00a0 The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is accusing former broker, Edward Matthes of defrauding older investors of $2.4M. Matthes was a registered stockbroker and an investment advisor. The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) and the Wisconsin Department of Financial Institutions Securities Division have both permanently barred [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18706,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3773,3738,3803],"tags":[4274,4275,3001],"class_list":["post-18705","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broker-fraud","category-investor-fraud","category-senior-investors","tag-edward-matthes","tag-mutual-of-omaha","tag-senior-investor-fraud"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Barred Broker Edward Matthes Investigated | Investment Fraud Lawyers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Former Mutual of Omaha broker, Edward Matthes is being investigated for allegedly defrauding over 26 senior investors through a Ponzi-like scheme.\" \/>\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\/edward-matthews-broker-fraud-investigation\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Barred Broker Edward Matthes Investigated | Investment Fraud Lawyers\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Former Mutual of Omaha broker, Edward Matthes is being investigated for allegedly defrauding over 26 senior investors through a Ponzi-like scheme.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/nicola-fioravanti-SG5tASj-mGc-unsplash-1.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Shepherd Smith Edwards &amp; 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