Articles Tagged with Stonecrest Capital Markets

According to records kept by The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) financial Broker Giuseppe Pulitano (Pulitano), currently associated with Stonecrest Capital Markets, INC., has at least one disclosable event. These events include one customer complaint, alleging that Pulitano 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 June 04, 2021.

In June 2021 Citi International Financial Services, LLC (the ‘Firm’) was served for a customer-initiated FINRA arbitration, alleging the mishandling (e.g. Overconcentration) of the claimants’ account, thus ‘causing’ the customers’ ‘significant losses of capital’ and ‘damages’ in excess of $5,000,000. For that, the customers are requesting an award for damages, rescission, punitive damages, interest, costs, attorney’s fees, and such other relief the Arbitration Panel deems just and proper. The allegation period is estimated from May 2012 (the date the account was opened) to 2020. Claimants’ FINRA Submission Agreement is dated May 14, 2021.

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

FINRA BrokerCheck shows a pending customer complaint on December 04, 2025.

An institutional investor has filed a civil suit in Indiana State Court naming Mr. Dewey, a former investment fund he worked for, and others as defendants, in connection with losses caused by fraudulent conduct at one of the companies in which the fund invested. The plaintiff alleges that Mr. Dewey and the other defendants, among other things, knew about and failed to disclose the fraud to the investor. \,  \, Mr. Dewey, however, played no role in the investment at issue, as he had left the firm more than nine months before the fund's investment was made. In terms of timeline, Mr. Dewey was hired by the fund on 9/1/20 and he left the firm 6/23/21.

According to BrokerCheck records kept by The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) broker Alfonso Figueroa Bello (Figueroa Bello), previously associated with Stonecrest Capital Markets, INC., has been subject to at least one disclosable event. These events include one customer complaint. Several of those complaints against Figueroa Bello  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 $1,300,000.00 on July 02, 2025.

Claimant alleges misconduct from 12/2017 to 8/2022 for Suitability, Excessive Trading, Unauthorized Trading, Churning

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

FINRA BrokerCheck shows a settled customer complaint on May 09, 2025.

Time frame: Unspecified Allegations: Claimant alleges that the recommendation to invest in and hold Puerto Rico closed-end funds was unsuitable and that his UBS account was over-concentrated in these investments. He also alleges that the risks of investing in and concentrating in PR investments were misrepresented.

According to records kept by The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) financial Broker Deborah Stackpole (Stackpole), currently associated with Stonecrest Capital Markets, INC., has at least one disclosable event. These events include one customer complaint, alleging that Stackpole 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 $390,000.00 on February 28, 2024.

The customer filed an arbitration claiming unsuitable recommendations related to two investments a corporate and an REIT.

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

FINRA BrokerCheck shows a pending customer complaint on April 24, 2024.

Time frame: Unspecified Allegations: Claimant alleges that the recommendation to invest in and hold Puerto Rico closed-end funds was unsuitable and that his UBS account was over-concentrated in these investments. He also alleges that the risks of investing in and concentrating in PR investments were misrepresented.

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

FINRA BrokerCheck shows a pending customer complaint on April 24, 2024.

Time frame: Unspecified Allegations: Claimant alleges that the recommendation to invest in and hold Puerto Rico closed-end funds was unsuitable and that his UBS account was over-concentrated in these investments. He also alleges that the risks of investing in and concentrating in PR investments were misrepresented.

According to records kept by The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) financial Broker Edward Kasperavich (Kasperavich), currently associated with Stonecrest Capital Markets, Inc., has at least one disclosable event. These events include one customer complaint, alleging that Kasperavich 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 $390,000.00 on February 28, 2024.

Stonecrest Capital Markets, Inc. (the ‘Firm’) received a FINRA arbitration notice on February 28, 2024, from Mr. [REDACTED], directed against Registered Representatives Edward Kasperavich (CRD#4970038) and Deborah Stackpole (CRD#4969850). The complaint lodged allegations of Poor Recommendation/Poor Advice concerning an investment made by Mr. [REDACTED] in GWG Holdings, LLC L-Bonds and in Northstar Healthcare Income, Inc . The complaint highlights concerns regarding the quality of the recommendations and advice provided by the aforementioned registered representatives in relation to Mr. [REDACTED]’s investment of $300,000.00 in GWG Holdings L-Bonds and $90,000 loss in his investment in Northstar Healthcare Income, Inc. from 2019 to 2023.

According to records kept by The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) financial Broker Antonio Bauza (Bauza), currently associated with Stonecrest Capital Markets, Inc., has at least one disclosable event. These events include one customer complaint, alleging that Bauza 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 $350,000.00 on September 22, 2023.

Time frame: September 2015 – February 2017. Claimant alleges unsuitable investments and, breach of fiduciary duty.

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