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The Ponzi-like scheme used investor funds to pay other investors’ debts and cover personal expenses.

The advisor convinced the couple to transfer their retirement savings, but they claim the money never made it to their accounts. Their attorneys say there are other victims.

The firm incorrectly coded her payout at the institutional rate, a mistake that impeded her ability to move up the pay grid and attain bonuses, she alleges.

The advisor fooled her victims into thinking she would invest their funds when in fact she used the money to buy luxury items and real estate, prosecutors claim.

The advisor, a former employee, has been soliciting more than two dozen clients at the bank, JPMorgan says.

In addition to winning a $25,000 award, ex-J.P. Morgan rep Mihail Naumovski was able to expunge erroneous information on his Form U5 that he violated investment-related regulations.

The firm falsely claimed on his Form U5 that he deliberately changed a customer’s address from California to New Hampshire to facilitate the sale of an annuity, the broker alleged.