{"id":4775,"date":"2017-08-29T12:52:48","date_gmt":"2017-08-29T17:52:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/?p=4541"},"modified":"2022-04-01T11:31:37","modified_gmt":"2022-04-01T16:31:37","slug":"former-investment-adviser-gets-five-years-prison-stealing-600k-clients","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/former-investment-adviser-gets-five-years-prison-stealing-600k-clients\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Investment Adviser Gets Five Years in Prison for Stealing Over $600K From Clients"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tAaron J. Johnson, a former registered investment adviser who ran Capital Advisors until state regulators took back his firm\u2019s registration in 2013, is sentenced to five years behind bars for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stockbroker-fraud.com\">financial fraud<\/a>. Johnson, 37, claimed that he stole over $600K from clients because he suffered a mental health breakdown. <\/p>\n<p>According to prosecutors, Johnson took money from middle-class clients\u2019 retirement accounts and charged them excessive fees to the point that he\u2019d practically drained their funds.  After Capital Advisors lost its registration, Johnson became affiliated with Trade PMR, a Florida-based firm that offers custody and brokerage services for investment advisers that are registered. Prosecutors contend that even then Johnson kept stealing from clients despite the fact that he was now under investigation. Prosecutors said that after Trade PMR began to question the fees that Johnson charged clients, including $3200 in client fees for an account that only held $13K in assets, the ex-adviser generated fraudulent documents as proof that his actions were warranted. He drained the account of the client, who was a single mom with three kids, until there was only $5 left. <\/p>\n<p>Johnson has been ordered to pay back everyone that he defrauded.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/former-investment-adviser-gets-five-years-prison-stealing-600k-clients\/#more-4775\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aaron J. Johnson, a former registered investment adviser who ran Capital Advisors until state regulators took back his firm\u2019s registration in 2013, is sentenced to five years behind bars for financial fraud. Johnson, 37, claimed that he stole over $600K from clients because he suffered a mental health breakdown. According to prosecutors, Johnson took money [&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":[3739,3781,3738],"tags":[2876],"class_list":["post-4775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-finra","category-investment-advisers","category-investor-fraud","tag-excessive-trading"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Former Investment Adviser Gets Five Years in Prison for Stealing Over $600K From Clients &#8212; Investor Lawyers Blog &#8212; August 29, 2017<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Aaron J. 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