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Daniel Goodwin Faces Two Pending Real Estate Investment Complaints

By |2026-08-24T08:49:34-04:00August 24th, 2026|Broker / Advisor Investigations, FINRA Arbitration Attorney|

Sonn Law is reviewing real estate investment complaints involving broker Daniel Goodwin (CRD No. 5752768). Goodwin’s FINRA BrokerCheck report identifies two pending customer disputes involving direct investments and real estate securities. An April 2026 complaint seeks $186,756.35 and alleges that an investment recommendation was unsuitable based on the customer’s financial situation, objectives, and risk tolerance. [...]

Former LPL Broker Nicholas Olivas Faces Pending $300,000 Options Claim

By |2026-08-24T08:39:25-04:00August 24th, 2026|Broker / Advisor Investigations, FINRA Arbitration Attorney|

Sonn Law is reviewing options-trading complaints involving Nicholas Olivas (CRD No. 6803146), formerly of LPL Financial. According to FINRA BrokerCheck, Olivas has four customer-dispute disclosures and one employment-termination disclosure. A pending complaint seeks $300,000 in damages. The customer alleges that Olivas recommended an options strategy that was unsuitable and inconsistent with the customer’s investment objectives [...]

Former Kestra Broker Markus Byrd Has Seven Customer Disclosures

By |2026-08-24T08:36:37-04:00August 24th, 2026|Uncategorized|

Sonn Law is reviewing investment-loss allegations involving former Kestra Investment Services broker Markus Byrd (CRD No. 2177376). According to FINRA BrokerCheck, Byrd has seven customer-dispute disclosures, including two pending disputes. One pending FINRA arbitration alleges unsuitable alternative-investment recommendations. Another alleges that Byrd exercised discretion to purchase an exchange-traded note, recommended an unsuitable strategy, held the [...]

Christopher Gardner Faces $4.5 Million in Pending Options Complaints

By |2026-08-24T08:33:42-04:00August 24th, 2026|Broker / Advisor Investigations, FINRA Arbitration Attorney|

Sonn Law is reviewing customer disputes involving Christopher Michael Gardner (CRD No. 6399817) of Signature Estate Securities in Los Angeles, California. Gardner’s FINRA BrokerCheck report identifies two pending customer disputes involving options trading. An April 2026 complaint alleges breach of fiduciary duty and seeks $4 million in damages. The matter was filed as FINRA Arbitration [...]

Morgan Stanley Broker Araya Mesfin Faces Pending FINRA Customer Disputes

By |2026-08-24T08:30:43-04:00August 24th, 2026|Broker / Advisor Investigations, FINRA Arbitration Attorney|

Sonn Law is reviewing customer disputes involving Araya Mesfin (CRD No. 4828859), a Morgan Stanley financial advisor in Atlanta, Georgia. According to FINRA BrokerCheck, Mesfin has two pending customer disputes. One claimant seeks $20 million and alleges that Mesfin made unsuitable recommendations involving highly leveraged triple-net-lease commercial real estate investments while associated with UBS Financial [...]

Can a Brokerage Firm Be Liable for an Advisor’s Outside Promissory Notes?

By |2026-08-21T16:16:55-04:00August 21st, 2026|FINRA Arbitration News, Cases & Investor Resources | Sonn Law, Investor Alerts|

Investors often purchase promissory notes because they trust the financial advisor recommending them. When a note defaults, the advisor’s brokerage firm may argue that it never approved the investment or received a commission. Those facts matter, but they do not necessarily end the inquiry. Potential brokerage-firm liability may depend on whether the advisor participated in [...]

Aurora Securities DST Complaints: What Investors Should Review About Due Diligence and Supervision

By |2026-08-21T15:43:28-04:00August 21st, 2026|FINRA Arbitration News, Cases & Investor Resources | Sonn Law, Investor Alerts|

Investors who purchased Delaware Statutory Trust investments through Aurora Securities (CRD No. 46147) may have questions about losses, suspended or reduced distributions, illiquidity, and the brokerage firm’s review of the offerings. Recent FINRA BrokerCheck reports for several Aurora Securities representatives disclose customer arbitrations involving real estate securities. The reported allegations include unsuitable recommendations, inadequate due [...]

EcoVest Conservation Easement Losses: Claims Against Strategic Financial Alliance and Green Vista Capital—and provide a document checklist.

By |2026-08-21T15:22:56-04:00August 21st, 2026|FINRA Enforcement Actions, Investor Alerts|

Investors who purchased EcoVest syndicated conservation easement investments may have suffered losses extending far beyond their initial investment. If the IRS disallows a conservation easement deduction, an investor may owe additional federal and state taxes, penalties, interest, and professional fees. Investors may also discover that an investment presented as a tax-advantaged strategy was substantially more [...]

The S2A Modular Paper Trail: Who Sold These Investments & What the SEC’s Own Records Show

By |2026-08-21T10:59:57-04:00August 21st, 2026|Investor Alerts, Private Placements|

Sonn Law Group is investigating recovery options for investors in S2A Modular Corp. and the S2A Investments LLCs. Free, confidential consultations. We covered the SEC’s fraud complaint against S2A Modular co-founders Brian Kuzdas and John Rowland - an alleged $65 million offering fraud involving nearly 350 retail investors and a network of “MegaFactories” that never [...]

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