{"id":4951,"date":"2018-03-24T19:17:18","date_gmt":"2018-03-25T00:17:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/?p=4951"},"modified":"2022-04-03T16:08:45","modified_gmt":"2022-04-03T21:08:45","slug":"broker-fraud-allegations-lead-to-finra-bars-for-northwestern-fortune-financial-and-morgan-stanley-representatives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/broker-fraud-allegations-lead-to-finra-bars-for-northwestern-fortune-financial-and-morgan-stanley-representatives\/","title":{"rendered":"Broker Fraud Allegations Lead to Finra Bars for Northwestern, Fortune Financial, and Morgan Stanley Representatives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority has barred three brokers in separate, unrelated cases for alleged misconduct. They are ex-Morgan Stanley (MS) representative Thomas Alain Meier, ex-Fortune Financial broker Michael Giokas, and ex-Northwestern Mutual broker Michael Cochran.<\/p>\n<p>Former Morgan Stanley broker Thomas Alan Meier is accused of making unauthorized trades in customer accounts. In the self-regulatory organization\u2019s letter of acceptance, waiver, and consent, FINRA stated that from 7\/2012 through 3\/2016, Meier \u201ceffected\u201d over 1000 transactions that were not authorized in six customers\u2019 accounts. His allegedly unauthorized transactions involved discretion without written permission or the accounts garnering discretionary acceptance and impacted four clients.<\/p>\n<p>Between 4\/2016 and 10\/2017, Morgan Stanley submitted 21 amended Forms U5 for Meier. The forms showed that 14 customer complaints were filed against Meier, including two arbitration cases. <em>AdvisorHub<\/em> reports that because of Meier&#8217;s alleged misconduct, customers sustained $818K in losses and over $2M in unrealized losses. To date, the brokerage firm has paid customers about $2.5M in settlements and resolved 13 of the claims.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.investorlawyers.com\/blog\/broker-fraud-allegations-lead-to-finra-bars-for-northwestern-fortune-financial-and-morgan-stanley-representatives\/#more-4951\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority has barred three brokers in separate, unrelated cases for alleged misconduct. They are ex-Morgan Stanley (MS) representative Thomas Alain Meier, ex-Fortune Financial broker Michael Giokas, and ex-Northwestern Mutual broker Michael Cochran. Former Morgan Stanley broker Thomas Alan Meier is accused of making unauthorized trades in customer accounts. 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