{"id":227,"date":"2007-09-18T00:51:14","date_gmt":"2007-09-18T00:51:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stockbrokerfraudblog.com\/2007\/09\/brokerdealer_legacy_financial"},"modified":"2021-11-12T13:07:53","modified_gmt":"2021-11-12T19:07:53","slug":"brokerdealer-legacy-financial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/brokerdealer-legacy-financial\/","title":{"rendered":"Broker-Dealer Legacy Financial Shuts Down Operations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tLegacy Financial Services Inc., an independent broker-dealer, has closed shop. Last July, the Petaluma, California company sold most of its affiliated registered representatives and their accounts to Multi-Financial Securities Corp. <\/p>\n<p>Some 125 advisers with close to $10 million in gross dealer concession were transferred by Multi-Financial. A number of Legacy executives and Brecek &amp; Young Advisors Inc., which is also a broker-dealer, also acquired advisers. Individual producers were given compensation packages to switch to Multi-Financial. <\/p>\n<p>Legacy Financial is still facing allegations made by the Maryland Securities Division in an &#8220;order to show cause&#8221; earlier this year that the independent broker-dealer did not properly supervise Joseph Karsner, a formerly affiliated registered representative and insurance agent.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/brokerdealer-legacy-financial\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Broker-Dealer Legacy Financial Shuts Down Operations\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legacy Financial Services Inc., an independent broker-dealer, has closed shop. Last July, the Petaluma, California company sold most of its affiliated registered representatives and their accounts to Multi-Financial Securities Corp. Some 125 advisers with close to $10 million in gross dealer concession were transferred by Multi-Financial. A number of Legacy executives and Brecek &amp; Young [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3774],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broker-dealers"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Broker-Dealer Legacy Financial Shuts Down Operations &#8212; Investor Lawyers Blog &#8212; September 18, 2007<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Legacy Financial Services Inc., an independent broker-dealer, has closed shop. 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