Newsroom category: Bad Broker Alert

Investors who worked with Chelsea Deng (CRD #4179306) while she was at Merrill Lynch may be entitled to recover losses. According to her FINRA BrokerCheck report, Deng was the subject of a customer arbitration that resulted in a completed award on July 7, 2025. The arbitration panel found that Deng’s firm, Merrill Lynch, must pay $2,727,527.31 in compensatory damages, […]

Christopher Robert Weeks (CRD #5463406), formerly registered as a broker and currently an investment adviser at Creative Planning, is facing a pending Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) arbitration filed on February 14, 2024. The claimant alleges breach of fiduciary duty, negligence, and violations of the Kansas Securities Act in connection with options trading from June 2018 through June 2023. The […]

Former Miami Dolphins star Reshad Jones has reportedly lost about $2.6 million in an alleged fraud by his one-time financial advisor. The formeradvisor, Isaiah T. Williams Jr. (CRD#: 6211219), is accused of siphoning millions from Jones’ accounts under the guise of managing his finances. Williams has since been barred from the securities industry by regulators. Jones […]