Articles Tagged with Aegis Capital Corp

According to records kept by The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) financial Broker Todd Ellentuck (Ellentuck), previously associated with Aegis Capital Corp., has at least 2 disclosable events. These events include 2 customer complaints, alleging that Ellentuck 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 $420,000.00  on July 06, 2020.

Time Frame: August 2017 – November 2018. Claimants allege negligence, breach of fiduciary duty, breach of contract, common law fraud

According to records kept by The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) financial Broker Robert Buffington (Buffington), previously associated with Aegis Capital Corp., has at least one disclosable event. These events include one customer complaint, alleging that Buffington 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 $642,224.00  on March 09, 2020.

Time frame: unspecified. Claimant alleges unsuitability, breach of contract, breach of fiduciary duty.

According to records kept by The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) financial Broker William Carlton (Carlton), currently associated with Aegis Capital Corp., has at least 2 disclosable events. These events include 2 customer complaints, alleging that Carlton 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 $220,000.00  on April 30, 2026.

Time frame: October 2024 to present. Claimant alleges unsuitable investments, breach of fiduciary duty, and negligence.

According to records kept by The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) financial Broker William Lefkowitz (Lefkowitz), currently associated with Aegis Capital Corp., has at least one disclosable event. These events include one customer complaint, alleging that Lefkowitz 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 $500,000.00  on May 22, 2026.

Claimant alleges his account was churned and that the broker blocked a distribution from his trust account.

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

FINRA BrokerCheck shows a pending customer complaint on April 27, 2026.

Unsuitable investments, breach of fiduciary duty and, violation of Regulation Best Interest

According to BrokerCheck records kept by The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) broker Daniel O’neill (O’neill), previously associated with Aegis Capital Corp., has been subject to at least 2 disclosable events. These events include one customer complaint, one regulatory event. Several of those complaints against O’neill  concern allegations of high frequency trading activity also referred to as churning or excessive trading among other securities laws violations.

FINRA BrokerCheck shows a final customer complaint on July 29, 2021.

O’Neill was named a respondent in a FINRA complaint alleging that he excessively and unsuitably traded one of his customer’s accounts. The complaint alleges that O’Neill exercised de facto control over the trading in the customer’s account, controlling the volume and frequency of trading, deciding what securities to buy and sell, the quantities, the price, and when each trade would occur. O’Neill also exercised control when he executed unauthorized trades in the customer’s account. The trading in the customer’s account was also excessive when measured against the annualized turnover rate and cost-to-equity ratio. O’Neill’s intentional, active trading caused the customer to incur $140,109 in costs and $147,411 in losses, while generating substantial commissions for O’Neill. O’Neill’s trading generated gross sales credits and commissions of $110,446, of which O’Neill received at least $66,000. O’Neill did not have a reasonable basis to believe that the level of trading he recommended was suitable for the customer. The complaint also alleges that O’Neill effected trades in the customer’s account without first obtaining authorization or consent for the trades from the customer.

According to records kept by The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) financial Broker Steven Ircha (Ircha), currently associated with Aegis Capital Corp., has at least one disclosable event. These events include one customer complaint, alleging that Ircha 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 $100,000.00 on March 06, 2026.

Claimant expresses concerns regarding the alleged suitability of investments and potential breaches of fiduciary duty and Regulation Best Interest (Reg BI).

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

FINRA BrokerCheck shows a settled customer complaint on March 12, 2026.

Claimant alleges unsuitable investment.

Previously financial advisor Alvery Bartlett (Bartlett), previously employed by brokerage firm Aegis Capital Corp. 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 $1,000,000.00 on March 13, 2026.

The arbitration was filed by multiple claimants that allege the representative recommended an investment strategy consisting exclusively of large concentrations in illiquid, speculative, high commission alternative\, investments over the course of more than 15 years (approximately 2001-2016) which was misrepresented to them. They further allege the firm failed to conduct due diligence on the alternative investment strategy and\, failed to supervise the representative’s conduct. One claimant alleges that the representative recommended a private hedge fund that was not properly reviewed and supervised by the firm. After the\, representative left the firm some of the claimants followed him to his next broker-dealers where they allege the representative continued to represent that many of the investments were still active and could liquidate\, and return millions to claimants; thus claimants did not know that their portfolios had lost value overall until recently.\,

According to records kept by The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) financial Broker Jeffery Hattaway (Hattaway), currently associated with Aegis Capital Corp., has at least one disclosable event. These events include one customer complaint, alleging that Hattaway 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 $14,000.00 on May 11, 2020.

Client alleges that former FA’s failure to follow instructions led to large tax implication.

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