{"id":4742,"date":"2017-06-14T14:43:24","date_gmt":"2017-06-14T19:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/?p=4401"},"modified":"2017-06-14T14:43:24","modified_gmt":"2017-06-14T19:43:24","slug":"finra-promises-take-tougher-stance-rogue-brokers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/finra-promises-take-tougher-stance-rogue-brokers\/","title":{"rendered":"FINRA Promises To Take Tougher Stance With Rogue Brokers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tThe Financial Industry Regulatory has barred Lawrence M. Thomas, an ex-Woodbury Financial Services Inc. broker who was under investigation for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stockbroker-fraud.com\">unauthorized product sales<\/a>. Thomas was previously registered with Essex Securities.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, Thomas was fined $5K and suspended for three months after he consented to findings that he told an assistant to forge three customers\u2019 signatures on about 10 documents. FINRA had been looking into whether Thomas recommended to Woodbury clients that they purchase an unauthorized product. The self-regulatory organization barred him after he failed to testify in FINRA\u2019s investigation into the claims.<\/p>\n<p>In an unrelated FINRA case, the SRO has filed charges against Kim Dee Isaacson, an ex-Morgan Stanley (MS) broker, for allegedly misleading a client about the size of his account, engaging in unauthorized trading, and attempting to resolve these issues directly with the client instead of along with the firm. According to FINRA, Isaacson told the client that the account was valued at $3.1M even though that was false.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/finra-promises-take-tougher-stance-rogue-brokers\/#more-4742\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Financial Industry Regulatory has barred Lawrence M. Thomas, an ex-Woodbury Financial Services Inc. broker who was under investigation for unauthorized product sales. Thomas was previously registered with Essex Securities. Last year, Thomas was fined $5K and suspended for three months after he consented to findings that he told an assistant to forge three customers\u2019 [&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":[3773,3774,3739],"tags":[2645],"class_list":["post-4742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broker-fraud","category-broker-dealers","category-finra","tag-rogue-brokers"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>FINRA Promises To Take Tougher Stance With Rogue Brokers &#8212; Investor Lawyers Blog &#8212; June 14, 2017<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"FINRA have announced that it is taking new steps to go after rogue brokers propsoing that firms hiring many expelled brokers be marked.\" \/>\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\/finra-promises-take-tougher-stance-rogue-brokers\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"FINRA Promises To Take Tougher Stance With Rogue Brokers &#8212; 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