{"id":21626,"date":"2022-02-10T13:25:53","date_gmt":"2022-02-10T19:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/?p=21626"},"modified":"2022-02-10T13:25:53","modified_gmt":"2022-02-10T19:25:53","slug":"broker-darryl-cohen-defrauded-pro-athletes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/broker-darryl-cohen-defrauded-pro-athletes\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Morgan Stanley Broker Darryl Cohen, Accused of Defrauding Pro Athletes, To Be Barred by FINRA"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Fired California Financial Advisor Allegedly Bilked Pro Athletes of Millions<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Darryl Matthew Cohen, a former top-producing Morgan Stanley Smith Barney registered representative of Southern California, faces a FINRA bar beginning February 16, 2022. <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This bar will come into effect unless he cooperates in the self-regulatory organization&#8217;s (SRO&#8217;s) probe into allegations that he improperly used customers&#8217; money. A number of the clients who have stepped forward to complain are current and ex-professional athletes.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Morgan Stanley fired Darryl Cohen in March 2021 over allegedly engaging in undisclosed outside business activities and using an unapproved platform to communicate with clients inappropriately. He has nine customer disputes listed on BrokerCheck, with four of them still pending in which the damages sought total millions of dollars.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/broker-darryl-cohen-defrauded-pro-athletes\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Ex-Morgan Stanley Broker Darryl Cohen, Accused of Defrauding Pro Athletes, To Be Barred by FINRA\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fired California Financial Advisor Allegedly Bilked Pro Athletes of Millions\u00a0 Darryl Matthew Cohen, a former top-producing Morgan Stanley Smith Barney registered representative of Southern California, faces a FINRA bar beginning February 16, 2022. This bar will come into effect unless he cooperates in the self-regulatory organization&#8217;s (SRO&#8217;s) probe into allegations that he improperly used customers&#8217; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21627,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4136,3741],"tags":[4687,4688,2283],"class_list":["post-21626","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-morgan-stanley-financial-firms","category-securities-fraud","tag-darryl-cohen","tag-finra-bar","tag-morgan-stanley"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Broker Darryl Cohen Accused of Defrauding Pro Athletes<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Ex-Morgan Stanley broker Darryl Cohen faces a FINRA bar after allegedly defrauding pro athletes of millions of dollars.\" \/>\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\/broker-darryl-cohen-defrauded-pro-athletes\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Broker Darryl Cohen Accused of Defrauding Pro Athletes\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"Ex-Morgan Stanley broker Darryl Cohen faces a FINRA bar after allegedly defrauding pro athletes of millions of dollars.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/bill-oxford-OXGhu60NwxU-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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