Did Stephanie Fagenson Cause You Investment Losses?
Stephanie Fagenson, a broker employed by New York City New York based National Securities Corporation, submitted a Letter of Acceptance, Waiver and Consent (AWC) to FINRA for falsely representing that she had verbally confirmed two wire requests which turned out to be fraudulent requests from a customer’s hacked email account. Stephanie Lynn Fagenson allegedly caused two fraudulent wire disbursements to be transferred from her customer’s account to a third-party bank. According to FINRA, Ms. Fagenson received an email from an imposter posing as her customer requesting $100,000 to be wired to a third-party bank account. Ms. Fagenson allegedly processed the wire request without orally confirming the request with the customer, as was required by her member firm. Two weeks later, Ms. Fagenson purportedly received another email from the imposter requesting another wire transfer. This time, the request was for $200,000 and, again, Ms. Fagenson allegedly processed the wire without orally confirming with her customer. Ten days following the second wire transfer, Ms. Fagenson supposedly found out in a conversation with her customer that the customer’s email account had been hacked and that none of the wire requests had come from the customer. FINRA assessed a fine of $5,000 and suspended Ms. Fagenson from association with any FINRA member in any capacity for 45 days.
Do You Need An Attorney Who Sues Stockbrokers Who Breach Their Fiduciary Duty?
New York has thousands of stock brokerage firms and investment advisory offices. With so many stock brokerage firms and investment advisory offices, comes the potential for their stockbrokers, financial advisors, and other representatives to breach the fiduciary duty they owe to their customers and to engage in many other kinds of stockbroker fraud and stockbroker misconduct which violates Federal and New York securities laws and Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) rules and stock brokerage firms policies and procedures.
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Are you a New York investor who has suffered significant losses in your stock brokerage and investment accounts? Did your New York stockbroker or investment advisor breach their fiduciary duty by misrepresenting facts about the securities, investments or strategies? Did they make unauthorized transactions in your account? Did they recommend unsuitable securities transactions or strategies? Did they mismanage the securities account over which they had discretionary authority? Did they fail to disclose all of their conflicts of interest or fail to act in your best interest?
Broker-Dealer attorneys always argue to the arbitration panel they owed no fiduciary duty to customers. But in some states there are statutes spelling out the stockbroker’s fiduciary duties. If your stockbroker was also acting as an investment advisor there are Federal and state laws holding them to that fiduciary standard; i.e., to invest prudently, not speculate and always act in the customer’s best interest. Under common law, every stockbroker owes one or more of the following fiduciary duties to: not misrepresent facts; disclose all relevant and material facts; not make any unauthorized transactions; only recommend suitable investments and strategies; manage your account prudently when they take control of your account; disclose all conflicts of interest; and always act in the best interest of the customer. If you believe that your stockbroker or investment advisor acted in breach of their fiduciary duty, you will need an attorney who knows the law and exactly what fiduciary duties are owed by the stockbroker and/or investment advisor where you live.
More importantly, you will need the representation of an experienced, highly rated and nationally recognized FINRA arbitration attorney — an attorney who knows FINRA rules and procedures and how to handle these FINRA arbitration cases and other complex legal issues. By hiring a top rated securities attorney like Robert Wayne Pearce with over 40 years of experience on both sides of the table in FINRA arbitration proceedings, you will clearly see that Attorney Pearce doesn’t just handle cases—he aggressively represents investors and one of the best securities lawyers to recover your investment losses for breach of fiduciary duty and all types of stockbroker fraud and stockbroker misconduct in FINRA arbitration proceedings!
At The Law Offices of Robert Wayne Pearce, P.A., we represent investors with securities breach of fiduciary duty claims and many other kinds of securities law and investment disputes in FINRA arbitration and mediation proceedings. We handle a wide range of practice areas besides breach of fiduciary duty, such as claims involving securities misrepresentation and stockbroker fraud, negligence, failure to supervise, and unsuitable recommendations by stockbrokers and investment advisors. Attorney Pearce and his staff represent investors throughout New York, and across the United States on a CONTINGENCY FEE basis, which means you pay nothing – NO FEES-NO COSTS – unless we put money in your pocket after receiving a settlement or FINRA arbitration award.
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