{"id":18848,"date":"2020-03-25T07:18:12","date_gmt":"2020-03-25T12:18:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/?p=18848"},"modified":"2020-04-30T11:45:50","modified_gmt":"2020-04-30T16:45:50","slug":"james-daughtry-ex-kestra-broker-is-involved-in-investor-fraud-claims-and-accused-of-unauthorized-trading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/james-daughtry-ex-kestra-broker-is-involved-in-investor-fraud-claims-and-accused-of-unauthorized-trading\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Kestra Financial Broker Involved in Investor Fraud Claims and Accused of Unauthorized Trading"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Barred Kestra Investment Services Stockbroker Accused of Unauthorized Trading<\/h2>\n<p>Our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/stockbroker-and-investment-fraud.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">investor fraud lawyers<\/a> at Shepherd Smith Edwards and Kantas (SSEK Law Firm) are currently speaking with former customers of ex-Kestra Investment Services broker, James Blake Daughtry. He was recently barred by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.finra.org\/#\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The self-regulatory organization (SRO) issued the ban after Daughtry refused to testify during its investigation into allegations that he may have engaged in transactions that were potentially \u201cfraudulent and unauthorized\u201d in a number of customers\u2019 accounts. Also, in the wake of FINRA\u2019s order, Kestra fired him this month.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/james-daughtry-ex-kestra-broker-is-involved-in-investor-fraud-claims-and-accused-of-unauthorized-trading\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Ex-Kestra Financial Broker Involved in Investor Fraud Claims and Accused of Unauthorized Trading\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Barred Kestra Investment Services Stockbroker Accused of Unauthorized Trading Our investor fraud lawyers at Shepherd Smith Edwards and Kantas (SSEK Law Firm) are currently speaking with former customers of ex-Kestra Investment Services broker, James Blake Daughtry. He was recently barred by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA). The self-regulatory organization (SRO) issued the ban after [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":18396,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3773,3783,3739,4049],"tags":[4316,3290,3009],"class_list":["post-18848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broker-fraud","category-broker-misconduct","category-finra","category-industry-bars","tag-james-blake-daughtry","tag-kestra-investment-services","tag-unauthorized-trading"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ex-Kestra Financial Broker Involved In Investor Fraud | Securities Fraud Lawyers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"James Blake Daughtry, Ex-Kestra broker, was recently barred by FINRA for alleged investor fraud claims including unauthorized trades in customers\u2019 accounts.\" \/>\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\/james-daughtry-ex-kestra-broker-is-involved-in-investor-fraud-claims-and-accused-of-unauthorized-trading\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Ex-Kestra Financial Broker Involved In Investor Fraud | Securities Fraud Lawyers\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"James Blake Daughtry, Ex-Kestra broker, was recently barred by FINRA for alleged investor fraud claims including unauthorized trades in customers\u2019 accounts.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/SSEK-Ami-Forte-SSEK-Investigation.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Shepherd Smith Edwards &amp; 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