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Finra suspends financial advisor facing child sex charge

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Thomas Vernor is based in Huntsville, Alabama, and started in the securities industry in 1984 at Morgan Stanley Dean Witter.

Finra on Thursday suspended for five months a long-time financial advisor, Thomas Vernor, who failed to disclose to his broker-dealer at the time, LPL Financial, that he had been charged in April 2022 with "sex abuse" of a child who was less than 12 years old, according to his Securities and Exchang

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