The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (“FINRA”) has suspended stockbroker Leonard Marzocco from the securities industry. Mr. Marzocco consented to the suspension after FINRA alleged that between June 2019 and December 2019, while associated with Woodstock Financial Group, Inc. (“Woodstock Financial Group”), Mr. Marzocco excessively and unsuitable traded a customer’s account,…
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (“FINRA”) has barred a former Cambridge Investment Research, Inc. stockbroker from the securities industry for refusing to cooperate with a FINRA investigation into whether he, among other things, exercised discretion without written authorization in a customer’s account. The investigation was launched after Cambridge Investment Research,…
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (“FINRA”) has suspended stockbroker Michael May from the securities industry. Mr. May consented to the suspension after FINRA alleged that between June 2017 and May 2018, while associated with Joseph Stone Capital L.L.C. (“Joseph Stone Capital”), Mr. May excessively and unsuitable traded a customer’s account,…
FINRA has suspended former LPL Financial LLC broker Michael Miles Hartlett from the securities industry for ten business days. Hartlett consented to the sanctions and to the entry of findings that he exercised discretionary trading authority in a customer’s accounts without having obtained prior written authorization of the customer. Hartlett’s…
FINRA has barred former BB&T Securities, LLC broker Glenn Brandon, Jr. from the securities industry. Brandon consented to the sanction and to the entry of findings that he refused to provide documents and information requested by FINRA in connection with its investigation into whether he engaged in outside business activities…
FINRA has barred former AXA Advisors, LLC broker Edgar Kleydman from the securities industry. Kleydman consented to the sanction and to the entry of findings that he refused to appear for on-the-record testimony requested by FINRA during its investigation into whether he engaged in private securities transactions without providing written…
FINRA has barred former LPL Financial LLC broker Eric Shea Hollifield from the securities industry. Hollifield consented to the sanction and to the entry of findings that he refused to appear for on-the-record testimony or to produce the documents and information requested by FINRA in connection with its investigation into…
**Update: July 6, 2022** On June 24, 2022, former UBS broker Patrick R. Murray was suspended by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA). Mr. Murray, who is not currently associated with a brokerage firm, consented to the suspension after FINRA alleged that from March 2018 to January 2019, Murray violated…
David Gentile, the disgraced founder of GPB Capital Holdings LLC, who is facing criminal and civil fraud charges, is seeking to obtain millions of dollars from GPB. Despite being accused of running a Ponzi-like scheme when he was running GPB Capital, Mr. Gentile is asking for court-supervised mediation to obtain…
FINRA has fined Merrill Lynch $1.5 million over its alleged breach of supervisory and disclosure-related rules involving short positions in municipal securities. The firm was censured, fined, and required to certify that its supervisory systems and written procedures are reasonably designed to achieve compliance with Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board (MSRB)…