Articles Tagged with Vanderbilt Securities

According to records kept by The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) financial Broker Krikor Demirjian (Demirjian), currently associated with Vanderbilt Securities, LLC, has at least one disclosable event. These events include one customer complaint, alleging that Demirjian 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 January 03, 2024.

Customer alleges that an investment recommendation was unsuitable.

According to records kept by The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) financial Broker Janet Doherty (Doherty), currently associated with Vanderbilt Securities, LLC, has at least one disclosable event. These events include one customer complaint, alleging that Doherty 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 $5,000.00 on January 11, 2024.

Customer alleges unauthorized transfer of funds from fixed annuities to a variable annuity.

Currently financial advisor Diana Palmieri (Palmieri), currently employed by brokerage firm Vanderbilt Securities, LLC 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 $99,999.00 on February 08, 2024.

Clients claim investments into the non-traded REITS & BDCs between 2014-2019 were unsuitable and illiquid investments

According to records kept by The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) financial Broker Eric Bilitz (Bilitz), currently associated with Vanderbilt Securities, LLC, has at least one disclosable event. These events include one customer complaint, alleging that Bilitz 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 $8,489.81 on March 08, 2024.

The client alleged the recommendation and sale of the RiverSource Multi-Index Universal Insurance Policy by the advisor was unsuitable based on her needs and resources in June 2023 and he misrepresented the purchase of a new AIG SunAmerica Variable Annuity as a continuation of her deceased husband’s annuity in August 2023.

According to records kept by The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) financial Broker Hagop Nalbandian (Nalbandian), currently associated with Vanderbilt Securities, LLC, has at least 2 disclosable events. These events include 2 customer complaints, alleging that Nalbandian 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 $2,500,000.00 on April 28, 2025.

Customer alleges that an investment recommendation was unsuitable and misleading.

According to records kept by The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) financial Broker James Sophia (Sophia), previously associated with Vanderbilt Securities, LLC, has at least one disclosable event. These events include one customer complaint, alleging that Sophia 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 $50,000.00 on May 21, 2024.

Client alleged, inter alia, that investment strategy implemented in their account was not in their best interests 2019-2024

According to records kept by The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) financial Broker Cary Urich (Urich), currently associated with Vanderbilt Securities, LLC, has at least one disclosable event. These events include one customer complaint, alleging that Urich 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 $710,000.00 on June 11, 2024.

Unsuitability, breach of fiduciary duty, negligence and deception.

The law offices of Gana Weinstein LLP are currently investigating claims that Broker Kurt Berry (Berry) has been accused by investors of engaging in fraudulent misappropriation of their funds. According to records kept by The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), it appears that Berry was employed by Vanderbilt Securities, LLC at the time of the activity.  If you have been a victim of Berry’s alleged misconduct our firm may be able to assist you in recovering funds.

FINRA BrokerCheck shows a final customer complaint on June 17, 2024.

Without admitting or denying the findings, Berry consented to the sanctions and to the entry of findings that he participated in private securities transactions involving customers without providing prior written notice to his member firms or receiving approval from them. The findings stated that Berry’s customers invested $517,410 in oil and gas wells through a series of securities offerings. These customers were all either pre-existing clients or family members of existing clients of Berry’s advisory firm. Berry met with and made each customer aware of the oil and gas securities offerings, discussed the investments with each customer, and introduced each customer to a colleague who had visited some of the oil and gas wells to conduct due diligence. For each of the customers, Berry received $2,000, totaling $8,000.

According to records kept by The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) financial Broker Hagop Nalbandian (Nalbandian), currently associated with Vanderbilt Securities, LLC, has at least 2 disclosable events. These events include 2 customer complaints, alleging that Nalbandian 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 $37,000.00 on July 11, 2024.

Customer alleges that an investment recommendations were unsuitable and misleading.

Currently financial advisor Brian Gardiner (Gardiner), currently employed by brokerage firm Vanderbilt Securities, LLC 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 pending customer complaint with a damage request of $210,000.00 on March 19, 2025.

Claimaints allege violations of Common Law fraud, breach of fiduciary duty, negligent failure to supervise, negligence, regarding investments made in private placement offerings for First Capital, Hospitality Investors Trust and Cole Capital during 2017 to 2018.

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