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Broker Thomas Kieffer in IBN Financial Services, INC. Firm Has Customer Complaint

October 4, 2025 | by Staff Attorney

According to records kept by The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) financial Broker Thomas Kieffer (Kieffer), currently associated with IBN Financial Services, INC., has at least one disclosable event. These events include one customer complaint, alleging that Kieffer 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 $400,000.00 on November 07, 2022.

Inadequate due diligence of product, failure to disclose possible program risks

There are Recent Customer Complaints with Broker William Braun in Firm Kestra Investment Services, LLC

October 4, 2025 | by Staff Attorney

According to records kept by The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) financial Broker William Braun (Braun), currently associated with Kestra Investment Services, LLC, has at least one disclosable event. These events include one customer complaint, alleging that Braun 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 $200,000.00 on November 07, 2022.

Suitability

There are Recent Customer Complaints with Broker Timothy Hucks in Firm Capital Investment Group, INC.

October 4, 2025 | by Staff Attorney

According to records kept by The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) financial Broker Timothy Hucks (Hucks), currently associated with Capital Investment Group, INC., has at least one disclosable event. These events include one customer complaint, alleging that Hucks 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 $99,000.00 on November 07, 2022.

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There are Recent Customer Complaints with Broker Chester Donnally Jr. in Firm UBS Financial Services INC.

October 4, 2025 | by Staff Attorney

According to records kept by The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) financial Broker Chester Donnally Jr. (Donnally Jr.), previously associated with UBS Financial Services INC., has at least one disclosable event. These events include one customer complaint, alleging that Donnally Jr. 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 $5,000,000.00 on November 02, 2022.

Time frame: 2017-2019\, Claimant’s counsel alleges unsuitability and misrepresentation with respect to recommendations to invest in and hold an options overlay strategy.

There are Recent Customer Complaints with Broker Landon Collins in Firm Cetera Wealth Services, LLC

October 3, 2025 | by Staff Attorney

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

FINRA BrokerCheck shows a settled customer complaint on November 10, 2022.

Client alleges FA did not follow his instructions to only purchase laddered CDs, but rather also purchased bonds which have decreased in value.

There are Recent Customer Complaints with Broker Nicholas Paolicelli in Firm Nylife Securities LLC

October 3, 2025 | by Staff Attorney

According to records kept by The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) financial Broker Nicholas Paolicelli (Paolicelli), previously associated with Nylife Securities LLC, has at least one disclosable event. These events include one customer complaint, alleging that Paolicelli 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 $8,304.25 on November 09, 2022.

The customer alleges, due to misinformation provided by the RR, she only became aware after making a partial withdrawal from her variable annuity policy in August 2022, that it would result in a taxable event. The customer has requested that the transaction be reversed and the money returned to the policy to avoid taxes, penalties and surrender charges.

Broker Christopher Fusco in Joseph Stone Capital L.l.c. Firm Has Customer Complaint

October 3, 2025 | by Staff Attorney

According to BrokerCheck records kept by The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) broker Christopher Fusco (Fusco), previously associated with Joseph Stone Capital L.l.c., has been subject to at least one disclosable event. These events include one customer complaint. Several of those complaints against Fusco concern allegations of high frequency trading activity also referred to as churning or excessive trading among other securities laws violations.

FINRA BrokerCheck shows a pending customer complaint with a damage request of $453,406.47 on November 10, 2022.

Suitability, Churning

Broker Claudio Gambin Neto in MML Investors Services, LLC Firm Has Customer Complaint

October 3, 2025 | by Staff Attorney

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

FINRA BrokerCheck shows a pending customer complaint on November 14, 2022.

The complainant alleges that he was misled, and the investment strategy failed, and the advice and recommendations caused unnecessary loss and expenses.

Broker Nicholas Larsen in LPL Financial LLC Firm Has Customer Complaint

October 3, 2025 | by Staff Attorney

According to records kept by The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) financial Broker Nicholas Larsen (Larsen), currently associated with LPL Financial LLC, has at least one disclosable event. These events include one customer complaint, alleging that Larsen 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 $15,342.00 on November 15, 2022.

The clients submitted a complaint regarding the recommendation to purchase a HICOX mutual fund by a former CFS representative in February of 2021, which they subsequently sold in November of 2022. The clients allege that their former representative did not properly explain this mutual fund to them, insofar as they understood this mutual fund to be a conservative investment that would protect their principal. The clients have requested compensation for the losses they incurred upon selling their mutual fund investment.

There are Recent Customer Complaints with Broker Jon Bohnert in Firm Wells Fargo Clearing Services, LLC

October 3, 2025 | by Staff Attorney

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

FINRA BrokerCheck shows a settled customer complaint on November 09, 2022.

Claimants allege that from August 2012 through the end of 2021, the financial advisor misrepresented a non-traded fund.