Former Ameritas and TFS Securities Representative Barred for Converting Client Funds

Richard A. McGuire, of Bay Shore, New York, has been permanently barred from acting as a broker or otherwise associating with firms that sell securities to the public for allegedly taking $95,000 from a customer under false pretenses and refusing to give the money back when the customer requested it. The National Adjudicatory Council (NAC) of the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) affirmed the findings and sanctions imposed by the Office of Hearing Officers (OHO) which found that Richard McGuire converted $95,000 of a former customer’s money by using the money for his personal use and forged her signature on two loan agreements. FINRA’s Department of Enforcement had found that Mr. McGuire was allegedly given the money to invest in an annuity-like product and neither loaned him the money nor signed any loan documents.

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