Over the course of his career, New Jersey broker Glenn Robert King, most recently of Royal Alliance and Buckman, Buckman and Reid, has been accused many times of inappropriate action leading to investment loss of his investors. His record discloses 25 disclosure events. Disclosure events can be either lawsuits/judgments, terminations, regulatory investigations, bankruptcies, or written investor complaints seeking recovery. His employers had a duty to provide heightened supervision to King in light of this extensive history but apparently failed to supervise adequately. Investors may call for a free and confidential consultation with a private attorney by calling 1-866-817-0201.
A FINRA Hearing Officer in the most recent action found that King: 1) willfully misrepresented and omitted material facts, which constitutes fraud, when he sold 44 unit investment trusts (“UITs”) to seven customers; 2) excessively traded the accounts of four customers when he traded the customers’ UITs and closed-end mutual funds (“CEFs”) on a short-term basis (a suitability violation because the expense and commissions of trading were more than the reasonable benefit to the investor of such trades ); 3) made unsuitable recommendations to the same four investors when he recommended that they purchase UITs and CEFs as short-term trading investments; and 4) exercised discretion in the accounts of the four customers without written consent or approval. The Hearing Officer barred King for the fraud and imposed an additional bar on him for the suitability violations. In light of the bars, the Hearing Officer declined to impose sanctions on King for the improper exercise of discretion.
After an independent review of the record, FINRA affirmed the Hearing Officer’s findings of liability of King for the excessive trading and improper exercise of discretion in investor accounts, but we reverse the Hearing Officer’s findings of liability related to the fraud and unsuitable recommendations. For sanctions, FINRA decided to bar King for excessive trading in his investors’ accounts. In light of this bar, FINRA declined to impose sanctions on King for his improper discretionary trading.
In February 1992, Glenn Robert King registered with FINRA as a securities broker. During the periods relevant to the conduct for the most recent allegations, April 2008 to March 2011 and January 2013 to December 2014, King was registered with Royal Alliance Associates, Inc. (“Royal Alliance”) and Buckman, Buckman & Reid, Inc. (“Buckman Reid”), respectively. King joined Royal Alliance as a broker in January 2005. He voluntarily terminated his association with the firm in June 2011. In January 2012, King registered with Buckman Reid as general securities representative. King voluntarily left Buckman Reid in June 2015. King has not registered with another FINRA member firm since he terminated his association with Buckman Reid.
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