Securities fraud

Robert Graham allegedly solicited clients into risky investments, which he directed to his private company. He is the ex-chief of the Arizona Republican Party.

Investment firm blamed fat finger error for 90% decline when losses were really due to poor trading.

The advisor used about $410,000 to pay back investors in Ponzi-like fashion to keep the scheme alive, the regulator says.

An overreliance on disclosure isn't enough to protect clients from bad brokers, the investor advocacy group says.

Confidential emails reveal a top Wells Fargo advisor’s despair after he cried fraud. He could stay at Wells if he was silent, but spoke up anyway — and became a whistleblower.

The barred onetime Questar Capital and Woodbury Financial rep had pleaded guilty to the scam, which he says stemmed from a gambling addiction.

At least 17 individuals invested $13 million in the scheme, and many lost 'substantial portions' of their life savings, prosecutors say.

The funds allegedly paid for summer camp fees and a 1976 Corvette.

The dispute centered on the firm’s handling of Puerto Rican municipal bonds.

Vitaly Korchevsky was convicted of pocketing at least $14 million by trading securities on information he gleaned from press releases stolen by Ukrainian hackers before they were released publicly.

Vitaly Korchevsky was actually among the victims in a plot involving Ukrainian hackers who allegedly stole thousands of press releases before they were released, his lawyer says.

Scott Wolas assumed other people’s names to pose as a real estate agent, bartender, retired paleontologist and a registered rep, investigators say.

The advisor defrauded some 60 victims by using their money to pay off earlier investors, fund his own speculative trading and pay his personal expenses, the SEC claims.

Company policies were not reasonably designed to detect and prevent misconduct, the SEC claims after one advisor allegedly misappropriated more than $5 million from client accounts.

DaRayl Davis spent client funds on a luxury mansion, theater tickets and car rentals, federal prosecutors say.

Former San Diego Chargers guard Kris Dielman says the independent broker dealer failed to supervise his former advisor.

A FINRA arbitration claim followed an asset freeze and the launch of a federal investigation into the fired advisor’s RIA.

The lawsuit follows a complaint by the SEC alleging that five men and three companies defrauded more than 600 investors.

Advisors recommended that clients sell positions in complex structured products to rack up fees, says the regulator.

Prosecutors are presenting evidence of his training in securities markets to show that he'd likely know the information was purloined.