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Wells Fargo Broker Banned By FINRA

Former Wells Fargo broker John Christopher Pierce agreed to be barred from working with any firm registered with FINRA after he allegedly stole from his clients' bank accounts. At the time of the alleged misconduct, Pierce was both a registered broker-dealer with Wells Fargo as well as a personal banker at a Wells Fargo Bank branch in Pennsylvania, according to a letter accepted by FINRA. The scheme allegedly began at the beginning of March when he issued an instant debit card with a daily withdrawal limit of $1,500 under the name of a Wells Fargo Bank customer. Pierce then used the card to make two unauthorized ATM withdrawals totaling $1,380 for his personal use. After a complaint was made with the bank, Pierce replenished the account with funds from another customer without consent. Pierce was registered with Wells Fargo Advisors in January 2014 and was terminated this past March. He agreed to be barred from associating with any FINRA [...]

By |June 3rd, 2016|Broker Check, FINRA, Fraud, Press Releases & News|
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Banker Who Faked His Own Death Barred From Securities Industry

The SEC has barred from the securities industry Aubrey Lee Price, an imprisoned former Georgia investment adviser who pleaded guilty in 2014 to a massive fraud that helped bring down his troubled bank and cheated his clients out of millions of dollars. The penalty is inconsequential as Price is expected to spend three decades in federal prison. He submitted his offer to be banned from the industry in August, and the SEC accepted it this week, thus resolving the SEC's civil action against him. Price had disappeared in 2012, having written suicide notes confessing to defrauding his clients and Montgomery Bank & Trust. In some of the notes, he detailed his intent to jump from a ferry in Florida. A Florida judge declared Price legally dead roughly six months after he disappeared, but federal authorities never believed that he was actually dead. On New Year's Eve 2013, Price was captured in a routine traffic stop on I-95 near Brunswick, Georgia. [...]

By |January 15th, 2016|Fraud, Press Releases & News, SEC|
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FSC Securities To Pay $1.28M In Ponzi Case

FSC Securities will pay a $1.28 million arbitration award to investors who were defrauded by Aubrey Lee Price, who had feigned his death in 2012 to avoid being investigated for his $40 million Ponzi scheme. FSC, a broker-dealer in the AIG Advisor Group, was alleged by 8 investors to have failed to supervise a number of unnamed brokers, who sold the investors "unspecified fraudulent securities as part of a Ponzi scheme," according to FINRA's arbitration award. John Chapman, lawyer for the investors, claimed that Price and two ex-FSC brokers solicited investments in the primary vehicle for the scheme, which was called the PFG fund. In an investigation by the FBI, the bureau found that Price started making risky investments in 2009, after he had left FSC. Chapman claims that two FSC advisers pushed client money into the PFG fund, both of whom eventually left FSC. “FSC did a really bad job paying attention and supervision. [sic] They were asleep at the [...]

By |August 17th, 2015|Broker Check, FINRA, Fraud, Press Releases & News|
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Six Banks Fined Over $4B In Currency Probe

Six banks--Citibank, HSBC, JPMorgan Chase, RBS, Bank of America, and UBS--will pay, as a group, $1.4 billion to the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission and roughly $1.75 billion (£1.1 billion) to the U.K's Financial Conduct Authority. UBS will additionally make a payment to Switzerland. The British regulator has never before levied such large fines and says that the investigation into possible wrongdoing at Barclays is ongoing. The U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency stated that Citbank, Bank of America, and JPMorgan Chase will pay a total of $950 million in fines. From 2008 and 2013, relaxed controls at the banks made it possible for traders to share confidential information and collude with those at other institutions in order to fix rates and increase profits. According to the regulators, traders utilized private chatrooms online to arrange their buying and selling to shift currency prices in their favor with the goal of turning a profit for their employer banks at [...]

By |November 19th, 2014|Press Releases & News|
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