The Bapis Group, a $1.2 billion advisory team, leaves HighTower to join former Morgan Stanley wealth exec Greg Fleming’s Rockefeller Capital Management.
Joel Burstein, a former Raymond James branch manager, has been barred from the industry for 10 years and agreed to pay $80,000 for helping his former father-in-law cover up investment fraud.
Vishal Savla is facing up to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to wire fraud after he sent clients phony account statements showing large profits, not the heavy losses he was incurring as a result of bad trades.