FINRA recently announced that Vincent Joseph Farrugia, Jr. of Lawrenceville , Georgia (formerly a financial advisor with Next Financial Group, Inc.) has been fined $15,000 and suspended from association with any FINRA member in any capacity for four months. Without admitting or denying the findings, Farrugia consented to the described sanctions and to the [...]
On September 15, 2009, FINRA announced that a Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) Hearing Panel has barred John Edward Mullins a former registered representative with Morgan Stanley DW, Inc. (now known as Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, LLC) for misappropriating $11,156.47 from the charitable foundation of a 97-year old nursing home resident and widow who was [...]