The broker, Pedro L. Gonzalez-Seijo, was charged last summer with fraud.
SEC charges Kerry Hoffman with fraud involving unregistered securities.
Broker's trading generated $650,000 in commissions while clients suffered steep losses.
PacNorth Retirement Group will use both LPL's broker-dealer and corporate RIA.
Big firms creating business models that kinda, sorta, look like an RIA for advisers.
The tribe claimed it was unaware of the $11 million in commissions paid to a former Purshe Kaplan Sterling broker.
LPL's latest penalty from Massachusetts derives from not properly registering brokers.
Fred Brown also failed to change his employment record to disclose two tax liens and three civil judgments.
Advisers working for wirehouses and regional firms control vast amounts of assets that LPL would like to bring under its umbrella.
GPB paid commissions of 9.3%, or $167 million altogether, on the firm's private placements.