Did Michael John Woods Cause You Investment Losses?
Michael John Woods, a broker formerly at New Brighton, Pennsylvania based Fortune Financial Services, Inc., submitted a Letter of Acceptance, Waiver and Consent (AWC) to FINRA for allegedly engaging in an outside business activity without providing written notice to his firm. FINRA’s findings stated that Mr. Woods obtained signature authority on the firm customer’s bank account and wrote checks to pay the customer’s monthly bills in exchange for fees that totaled at least $1,500. The customer was 78 years old at the time, was arthritic, and according to Mr. Woods, needed help to manage his affairs. FINRA also stated that Mr. Woods created a false document bearing the customer’s photocopied signature from a variable annuity withdrawal form the customer had previously signed. Mr. Woods allegedly dated the new form and submitted the document to the annuity issuer three days after the customer died. The withdrawn monies were supposedly deposited into the customer’s bank account, which Mr. Woods controlled as the trustee of the customer’s trust. FINRA stated Mr. Woods issued checks drawn from that bank account to pay himself fees for estate services that he rendered as trustee of the trust. FINRA’s findings also included that Mr. Woods willfully failed to timely disclose federal tax liens levied against him on his Form U4. Mr. Woods, of Dexter, Michigan, was fined $20,000 and suspended from association with any FINRA member in any capacity for two years.
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