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According to records kept by The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) financial Broker Virgil Folden (Folden), currently associated with Saxony Securities, INC., has at least one disclosable event. These events include one customer complaint, alleging that Folden recommended unsuitable investments in different investment products including debt securities among other allegations and complaints.

FINRA BrokerCheck shows a settled customer complaint with a damage request of $300,000.00 on October 22, 2022.

On 10/14/2015, Mr. Folden misrepresented the GWG Investments and failed to disclose material facts concerning these investments.

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The attorneys at Gana Weinstein LLP are investigating BrokerCheck records reports that Broker Thomas Brunt (Brunt), currently employed by Cetera Investment Services 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), Brunt’s most recent customer complaint alleges that Brunt 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 $60,000.00 on October 26, 2022.

Claimant alleges they were overconcentrated in unsuitable structured product which resulted in losses.

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According to records kept by The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) financial Broker Jason Perez (Perez), currently associated with Edward Jones, has at least one disclosable event. These events include one customer complaint, alleging that Perez recommended unsuitable investments in different investment products including debt securities among other allegations and complaints.

FINRA BrokerCheck shows a settled customer complaint with a damage request of $7,000.00 on October 25, 2022.

The client alleges the financial advisor mispresented that his original investment in LANSX will always be there and behaved exactly like a municipal bond.

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Currently financial advisor Sam Bhushan (Bhushan), currently employed by brokerage firm Cabin Securities, INC. has been subject to at least one disclosable event. These events include one customer complaint. According to a BrokerCheck reports most of the recent customer complaints concern either corporate debt securities or alternative investments such as direct participation products (DPPs) like business development companies (BDCs), non-traded real estate investment trusts (REITs), oil & gas programs, annuities, and private placements.  The attorneys at Gana Weinstein LLP have represented hundreds of investors who suffered losses caused by these types of high risk, low reward products.

FINRA BrokerCheck shows a settled customer complaint with a damage request of $150,000.00 on October 31, 2022.

Bhushan was the subject of the customer’s complaint regarding a reg D private placement. The complaint against his member asserted the following causes of action, fraud, misrepresentation, omissions of material facts, unsuitable recommendations, breach of contract, and breach of fiduciary duty.

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According to BrokerCheck records kept by The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) broker Peter Viglione (Viglione), currently associated with Network 1 Financial Securities INC., has been subject to at least one disclosable event. These events include one customer complaint. Several of those complaints against Viglione  concern allegations of high frequency trading activity also referred to as churning or excessive trading among other securities laws violations.

FINRA BrokerCheck shows a settled customer complaint with a damage request of $334,000.00 on October 26, 2022.

Client alleges excessive trading, excessive commissions and unauthorized trading from 2015-2018

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According to records kept by The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) financial Broker Charles Johnson (Johnson), previously associated with Mutual Securities, INC., has at least one disclosable event. These events include one customer complaint, alleging that Johnson recommended unsuitable investments in different investment products including debt securities among other allegations and complaints.

FINRA BrokerCheck shows a pending customer complaint with a damage request of $250,000.00 on October 31, 2022.

Plaintiff alleges the following:  fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, unauthorized practice of law, and intentional interference. Summary of events leading to allegations:  In the course of providing advisory services to the client in 2021, the advisor and client discussed the client’s wishes regarding his estate, including transfer-on-death/payable-on-death instructions, beneficiary designations, and the creation of a trust. In the summer of 2021, the client provided updated beneficiary instructions and the advisor forwarded relevant information to an attorney for creation of estate documents to achieve the stated desires of the client. The client died in November 2021.

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According to records kept by The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) financial Broker James Davis (Davis), currently associated with Ifp Securities, LLC, has at least one disclosable event. These events include one customer complaint, alleging that Davis recommended unsuitable investments in different investment products including debt securities among other allegations and complaints.

FINRA BrokerCheck shows a settled customer complaint with a damage request of $100,000.00 on October 25, 2022.

Customer filed a FINRA arbitration claim received by the firm on Oct 25, 2022. The claim alleges breaches of state law, fiduciary duty, contract law and a general failure to disclose risk parameters surrounding an investment in a GWG “L Bonds”. The subject investment at issue has filed for Federal Bankruptcy protection under Chapter 11 (re-organization). Internal investigation of facts surrounding allegations was completed on approximately Dec 12th 2022, noting that the term of the bond(s) in question and associated risks were appropriately reflected in person and via documentation provided to the client. Customer requests recission of investment(s) (100K) and compensatory damages. Ascertainment of alleged actual damages is impossible until Chapter 11 proceedings are completed.

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According to records kept by The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) financial Broker Everett Ellis (Ellis), previously associated with Ameriprise Financial Services, LLC, has at least one disclosable event. These events include one customer complaint, alleging that Ellis recommended unsuitable investments in different investment products including debt securities among other allegations and complaints.

FINRA BrokerCheck shows a settled customer complaint with a damage request of $5,000.00 on October 25, 2022.

Customers allege they were told they could not lose money when investing in a variable annuity in October of 2017.

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According to records kept by The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) financial Broker Darren Daye (Daye), currently associated with Equitable Advisors, LLC, has at least one disclosable event. These events include one customer complaint, alleging that Daye recommended unsuitable investments in different investment products including debt securities among other allegations and complaints.

FINRA BrokerCheck shows a settled customer complaint with a damage request of $130,000.00 on October 26, 2022.

Suitability in GWG Holdings L Bonds and preferred stock and GPB Waste Management, LP. October 2017to June 2018.

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According to records kept by The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) financial Broker Ronald Birnbaum (Birnbaum), previously associated with Advisory Group Equity Services Ltd., has at least one disclosable event. These events include one customer complaint, alleging that Birnbaum recommended unsuitable investments in different investment products including debt securities among other allegations and complaints.

FINRA BrokerCheck shows a pending customer complaint with a damage request of $455,453.83 on October 24, 2022.

Client, through their attorneys, asserts statutory and common-law claims for alleged unsuitable investments  resulting in investment losses.

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