{"id":19365,"date":"2020-11-20T10:42:08","date_gmt":"2020-11-20T16:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/?p=19365"},"modified":"2020-11-23T10:42:16","modified_gmt":"2020-11-23T16:42:16","slug":"ronald-hannes-defrauded-woodbury-financial-customers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/ronald-hannes-defrauded-woodbury-financial-customers\/","title":{"rendered":"Hannes Financial Services\u2019 Ronald Hannes Allegedly Defrauded Woodbury Financial Customers"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Banned Woodbury Financial Broker Allegedly Sold Fake Investments, Converted Client Monies<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Ronald Walter Hannes, a Spokane, Washington-based investment advisor and former Woodbury Financial Services broker, is accused by the Washington State Department of Financial Institutions of defrauding 19 clients of over $2.9M.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hannes had operated out of Hannes Financial Services and he was also a registered Woodbury Financial Services broker for 25 years until 2019. He has 33 years of experience working in the industry. Hannes was fired by Woodbury Financial Services last December. Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) barred him in February.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/ronald-hannes-defrauded-woodbury-financial-customers\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Hannes Financial Services\u2019 Ronald Hannes Allegedly Defrauded Woodbury Financial Customers\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Banned Woodbury Financial Broker Allegedly Sold Fake Investments, Converted Client Monies Ronald Walter Hannes, a Spokane, Washington-based investment advisor and former Woodbury Financial Services broker, is accused by the Washington State Department of Financial Institutions of defrauding 19 clients of over $2.9M.\u00a0 Hannes had operated out of Hannes Financial Services and he was also a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19366,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3773,4469],"tags":[4257,4470,3336],"class_list":["post-19365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-broker-fraud","category-woodbury-financial","tag-failure-to-supervise","tag-ronald-hannes","tag-woodbury-financial-services"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Broker Ronald Hannes Allegedly Defrauded Woodbury Financial Clients | Investor Lawyers<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Ex-Woodbury Financial broker, Ronald Hannes, allegedly sold fake investments to his clients and proceeded to convert clients\u2019 funds.\" \/>\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\/ronald-hannes-defrauded-woodbury-financial-customers\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Broker Ronald Hannes Allegedly Defrauded Woodbury Financial Clients | Investor Lawyers\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Ex-Woodbury Financial broker, Ronald Hannes, allegedly sold fake investments to his clients and proceeded to convert clients\u2019 funds.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/pexels-ketut-subiyanto-4559589-1.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Shepherd Smith Edwards &amp; 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