Finra bars former OneAmerica broker for stealing customer's money

Domingo Gonzalez deposited client check into his bank account and spent it.
APR 10, 2018
By  Bloomberg

The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority Inc. has barred Domingo Gonzalez, a former broker with OneAmerica Securities, for depositing money entrusted to him into his own account and then spending the money. Finra said that Mr. Gonzalez, who was terminated in September 2017 by OneAmerica Securities, took a check for $2,629 from a client in March 2017 that the client asked to be deposited in their retirement account. In November 2017, according to Mr. Gonzalez's BrokerCheck records, he settled with the client for $1,000. In October 2017, Mr. Gonzalez joined Park Avenue Securities. He began his securities career in 2014 at OneAmerica.

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