Securities Fraud Blog

A Norfolk, Virginia NASD arbitration panel found a brokerage firm liable for $75,000 in savings paid out of a disabled woman’s brokerage account to an alleged business venture of her stock broker on the last day of employment at the firm by her broker. The firm had taken the position that it was not responsible…

Greco & Greco’s client in this case was a Norfolk, Virginia broker who had agreed with his partner to set up introductory meetings with institutional clients and to subsequently split the fees earned from these clients. An NASD arbitration was filed seeking the broker’s share commissions which were not correctly split and paid. The arbitration…

Million Dollar Plus Awards for Family sold unsuitable risky limited partnerships. Greco & Greco represented a Chicago, Illinois family against a Virginia based brokerage firm and received an award for $1.2 million in damages and $400,000 in attorneys fees. A second arbitration was then successfully prosecuted against the control persons of the firm for failure…

Greco & Greco recently obtained a 3.24 million dollar arbitration award on behalf of a retired Northern Virginia man against his stockbroker and brokerage firm. The case involved churning, unauthorized margin trading, unsuitable recommendations, and securities fraud. In addition to $1,003,725 in compensatory damages, the arbitration panel awarded $1,300,000 in punitive damages, $774,863 in attorneys…

A New York FINRA arbitration panel entered an award for over two million dollars ($1,875,000 in damages plus interest) for five Greco & Greco clients against a Denver, Colorado securities broker. The customers incurred severe losses over a short time frame in their accounts involved in a leveraged U.S. Treasury trading program. Read the FINRA…

A FINRA arbitration panel issued an award of damages to Greco & Greco clients against UBS of Puerto Rico on February 23, 2018. The arbitration involved multiple Puerto Rico customers of UBS who had been invested primarily in UBS Puerto Rico Closed-End Mutual Funds and Puerto Rico Bonds. The award, totaling $521,075.00 in damages, was…

In this FINRA Arbitration held in Jackson, Mississippi, Greco & Greco represented a retiree who was cold-called by a New York broker. The broker’s investments ultimately lost a significant amount of the client’s savings in several overconcentrated stock positions. The FINRA panel awarded $80,000 in damages, $15,000 in punitive damages for “reckless disregard of Claimant’s…

W. Scott Greco, working with local Puerto Rico co-counsel, represented multiple customers in FINRA arbitration hearings in 2019 against UBS of Puerto Rico that resulted in monetary awards to the customers. The first, a case involving overconcentration in risky UBS Puerto Rico closed end funds, resulted in an award of $4,813,161.00 which were the principal…

In this case taken pro bonoby Greco & Greco, the FINRA arbitrator awarded the full amount of compensatory damages and interest requested based on claims of negligence, breach of fiduciary duty, and unsuitable recommendations. The arbitrator found that the brokerage firm “failed to recommend suitable investments based on [Claimant’s] request, age, needs, income status, and…

McLean, Virginia based law firm Greco & Greco, P.C. is currently investigating the activities of Ameriprise and its former financial advisor, James W. Dunn, who operated out of an office in Vienna, Virginia. As more fully set out in his FINRA Brokercheck Report (www.brokercheck.finra.org), former Ameriprise financial advisor James W. Dunn resigned in October, 2021…