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According to records kept by The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) financial Broker John Kersey (Kersey), previously associated with Northwestern Mutual Investment Services, LLC, has at least 14 disclosable events. These events include 13 customer complaints, one tax lien, alleging that Kersey recommended unsuitable investments in different investment products including debt securities among other allegations and complaints.
FINRA BrokerCheck shows a settled customer complaint on November 04, 2024.
The customer alleges that from March 2017 to July 2022, they wrote personal checks payable to the Representative and that the Representative misled the customer to believe that this money was deposited into a Northwestern Mutual account for the customer’s benefit. The customer also alleges that in 2011 and 2012 they wrote personal checks to a trust of which the customer was led to believe that the Representative was trustee of, and that the money paid to the trust was being invested on the customer’s behalf in a Northwestern Mutual account. The Firm has no record of these transactions.