FINRA recently announced that Charles James Moni, a financial advisor formerly registered with Jesup & Lamont Securities Corp, a FINRA broker-dealer based in Edison, New Jersey, has been fined $39,013, which includes disgorgement of $29,013 representing commissions received, and suspended from association with any FINRA member in any capacity for six months. Without admitting or denying the findings, Moni consented to the described sanctions and to the entry of findings that he recommended and executed an unsuitable investment strategy in an elderly beneficiary’s trust account that significantly increased the level of volatility in the account, amplified the risk of loss and increased costs.

According to his FINRA Broker Report (CRD), prior to working as a financial advisor at Jesup & Lamont Securities, Charles James Moni was a registered representative with Legg Mason Wood Walker, a FINRA registered broker-dealer based in Baltimore, Maryland, and Tucker Anthony, Incorporated, a FINRA registered broker-dealer based in Boston, Massachusetts.

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