Structured Product

There are Recent Customer Complaints with Broker Eliab Alonzo in Firm Cetera Advisor Networks LLC

March 3, 2025 | by Staff Attorney

The attorneys at Gana Weinstein LLP are investigating BrokerCheck records reports that Broker Eliab Alonzo (Alonzo), currently employed by Cetera Advisor Networks LLC has been subject to at least one disclosable event. These events include one customer complaint. According to records kept by The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), Alonzo’s most recent customer complaint alleges that Alonzo recommended unsuitable investments in structured products and makes allegations concerning misconduct relating to the handling of the customer’s accounts.

FINRA BrokerCheck shows a settled customer complaint with a damage request of $95,000.00 on October 24, 2024.

Client alleges that structured notes purchased in October 2021 were unsuitable and performed poorly.

There are Recent Customer Complaints with Broker Mario Payne in Firm Raymond James Financial Services, Inc.

February 15, 2025 | by Staff Attorney

The attorneys at Gana Weinstein LLP are investigating BrokerCheck records reports that Broker Mario Payne (Payne), previously employed by Raymond James Financial Services, Inc. has been subject to at least one disclosable event. These events include one customer complaint. According to records kept by The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), Payne’s most recent customer complaint alleges that Payne recommended unsuitable investments in structured products and makes allegations concerning misconduct relating to the handling of the customer’s accounts.

FINRA BrokerCheck shows a pending customer complaint with a damage request of $5,000,000.00 on January 15, 2025.

Claimants allege FA improperly engaged in a high-risk, illiquid, complex, and unsuitable investment strategy that concentrated them in structured products such as structured notes, and they also allege the products were misrepresented as safe, guaranteed, and insured.

There are Recent Customer Complaints with Broker Joao Bastos in Firm Citigroup Global Markets Inc.

February 11, 2025 | by Staff Attorney

The attorneys at Gana Weinstein LLP are investigating BrokerCheck records reports that Broker Joao Bastos (Bastos), currently employed by Citigroup Global Markets Inc. has been subject to at least one disclosable event. These events include one customer complaint. According to records kept by The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), Bastos’s most recent customer complaint alleges that Bastos recommended unsuitable investments in structured products and makes allegations concerning misconduct relating to the handling of the customer’s accounts.

FINRA BrokerCheck shows a pending customer complaint with a damage request of $885,000.00 on May 08, 2023.

Claimant alleges breaches of fiduciary duty related to recommendations regarding structured products, negligence, fraud, breach of contract, third-party beneficiary breach of contract, violations of federal and state securities statutes, violation of Reg BI and negligent supervision. (March 2020-August 2021)