{"id":29300,"date":"2023-06-01T23:45:28","date_gmt":"2023-06-02T04:45:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/?p=29300"},"modified":"2023-06-01T23:45:28","modified_gmt":"2023-06-02T04:45:28","slug":"broker-dealer-negligence-attorneys","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/broker-dealer-negligence-attorneys\/","title":{"rendered":"Broker-Dealer Negligence Attorneys"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>When Retirees Are Targeted By Brokers in Ponzi Scams<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Oppenheimer Must Pay Almost $14M Related to A$110M Scheme Run By Former Financial Advisor John Woods<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) arbitration panel has ordered\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/oppenheimer-co.html\">Oppenheimer &amp; Co.<\/a> to pay five Florida retirees and two trusts nearly $14M in losses they sustained in the $110M Horizon Private Equity III Ponzi scam run by its <a href=\"https:\/\/brokercheck.finra.org\/individual\/summary\/1949233\">former Atlanta broker John J. Woods<\/a>. The investors in this case, mostly ex-Delta Air Lines pilots and Air Force veterans, relied on the ongoing dividends from the Fund to support themselves and were devastated to discover that their investments were, in fact, worthless. 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