{"id":29883,"date":"2024-02-18T20:38:47","date_gmt":"2024-02-19T02:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/?p=29883"},"modified":"2024-02-18T20:38:47","modified_gmt":"2024-02-19T02:38:47","slug":"broker-fraud-attorney-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/broker-fraud-attorney-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Broker Fraud Attorney"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Are You Someone Who Suffered Losses While Working With Ex-American Portfolios Financial Services Broker Mark Hopkins?\u00a0<\/strong><strong>Our Broker Fraud Attorney Teams Want To Talk To You\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nearly one year after the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) permanently barred American Portfolios Financial Services stockbroker Mark Lewton Hopkins, Shepherd Smith Edwards and Kantas (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/\">investorlawyers.com<\/a>) are continuing to investigate claims of investment losses involving his former clients. The ex-Michigan financial advisor has been serving a prison term for defrauding investors.<\/p>\n<p>Hopkins was a registered representative with American Portfolios Financial Services for nearly a decade. The firm allowed him to resign in 2018 over allegations that he engaged in selling away. Hopkins was barred by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) in 2019. He worked at other broker-dealers before that during his 23 years in the industry.<\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/broker-fraud-attorney-2\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading Broker Fraud Attorney\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are You Someone Who Suffered Losses While Working With Ex-American Portfolios Financial Services Broker Mark Hopkins?\u00a0Our Broker Fraud Attorney Teams Want To Talk To You\u00a0 Nearly one year after the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) permanently barred American Portfolios Financial Services stockbroker Mark Lewton Hopkins, Shepherd Smith Edwards and Kantas (investorlawyers.com) are continuing to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29884,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5022,3762,4055],"tags":[5025,5023,5024],"class_list":["post-29883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-american-portfolios-financial-services","category-current-investigations","category-featured-investigation","tag-american-portfolios-financial-services","tag-broker-fraud-attorney","tag-mark-hopkins"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Broker Fraud Attorney<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Are You Someone Who Suffered Losses While Working With Broker\u00a0Mark Hopkins? 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