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According to records kept by The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) financial Broker Brad Holdhusen (Holdhusen), previously associated with Private Client Services, LLC, has at least one disclosable event. These events include one customer complaint, alleging that Holdhusen 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 $2,200,000.00 on March 15, 2021.

Statement of Claim alleges Claimants were sold multiple alternative investments based on material misrepresentations and omissions. Claimants allege they were over-concentrated in high-risk, high-commission and speculative alternative investments.

According to records kept by The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) financial Broker Gregory Theis (Theis), currently associated with Usa Financial Securities LLC, has at least one disclosable event. These events include one customer complaint, alleging that Theis 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 March 17, 2021.

Plaintiff’s are related to Mr. Theis by marriage. They are the children of Mr. Theis’ uncle’s second wife. Mr. Theis’ uncle and his wife were married for decades and at all times, Mr. Theis stated that they indicated they wanted to name each other as beneficiaries of the other’s assets. Mr. Theis’ aunt passed away in the fall of 2020 and her Plaintiff children allege that Mr. Theis, along with his cousin and 90-year-old uncle who had suffered a [REDACTED], conspired to retain assets that should have belonged to Plaintiffs by assisting husband and wife in naming each as beneficiaries. Plaintiffs also allegedly discovered a trust that Mr. Theis’ uncle and aunt had drawn up over a decade before her passing that was never disclosed to Mr. Theis and never funded by his uncle and aunt. Mr. Theis states that the trust document was only fully provided to him as part of the complaint filing – documents that had been provided to him shortly before the complaint was filed had been redacted ad pages were missing. According to the complaint, Mr. Theis and the other defendants engaged in this conspiracy to divert funds away from the undisclosed and previously unknown trust to prevent Plaintiffs from receiving it.

According to records kept by The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) financial Broker Joe Hildebrand (Hildebrand), currently associated with Private Client Services, LLC, has at least one disclosable event. These events include one customer complaint, alleging that Hildebrand 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 $2,200,000.00 on March 15, 2021.

Statement of Claim alleges Claimants were sold multiple alternative investments based on material misrepresentations and omissions. Claimants allege they were over-concentrated in high-risk, high-commission and speculative alternative investments.

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

FINRA BrokerCheck shows a settled customer complaint on March 15, 2021.

Claimant alleges that in November 2017 her advisor recommended an unsuitable investment in a non-qualified variable annuity. Claimant seeks unspecified damages.

According to records kept by The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) financial Broker Allyson Trantum (Trantum), currently associated with J.w. Cole Financial, INC., has at least one disclosable event. These events include one customer complaint, alleging that Trantum 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 $2,000,000.00 on March 12, 2021.

Client completed paperwork to surrender annuity in response to buyout offer from VA sponsor and alleges she did not wish to surrender the annuity and is seeking lost lifetime income guarantees.

According to records kept by The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) financial Broker Ricardo Rodriguez Vazquez (Rodriguez Vazquez), currently associated with Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, has at least one disclosable event. These events include one customer complaint, alleging that Rodriguez Vazquez 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 $370,000.00 on March 15, 2021.

Client alleges overconcentration, unsuitability, breach of fiduciary duty, violations of securities laws and rules, breach of contract, negligence, fraud, false inducement to inaction, negligent supervision (Puerto Rico bonds, closed-end funds and open end funds). Includes request for rescission, punitive damages, interest, costs, fees.

According to records kept by The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) financial Broker Douglas Smith (Smith), currently associated with Ameriprise Financial Services, LLC, has at least one disclosable event. These events include one customer complaint, alleging that Smith 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 $14,540.88 on March 17, 2021.

The client alleged an equity security was sold in January 2021 without her authorization.

According to records kept by The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) financial Broker Glenn Arons (Arons), previously associated with Park Avenue Securities LLC, has at least one disclosable event. These events include one customer complaint, alleging that Arons 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 $315,000.00 on March 16, 2021.

Claimants allege the RR violated his suitability obligation and was negligent in recommending investments in three private equity ventures.

According to records kept by The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) financial Broker David Weiniger (Weiniger), currently associated with Velocity Clearing, LLC, has at least one disclosable event. These events include one customer complaint, alleging that Weiniger 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 $24,000,000.00 on March 15, 2021.

The customer is alleging that the losses it suffered were the result of the restrictions placed upon it by the Firm in its trading and its access to margin during the market volatility that occurred at the onset of the COVID 19 pandemic in February and March 2020.

According to records kept by The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) financial Broker Donald Gunn (Gunn), currently associated with International Assets Advisory, LLC, has at least one disclosable event. These events include one customer complaint, alleging that Gunn 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 $500,000.00 on March 16, 2021.

Negligence, violation of florida’s securities and investor protection act, common law fraud, etc. Regarding purchase of gpb products.

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