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SEC charges former broker with putting customers in unsuitable, risky investments

Demitrios Hall racked up commissions from leveraged trades in ETFs and ETNs for unsophisticated clients.

The Securities and Exchange Commission charged a former broker Tuesday with trading leveraged ETFs and ETNs in customers' accounts and misappropriating $170,000 from one of his customers.

The SEC says that Demitrios Hall traded 179 daily leveraged exchange-traded funds and exchanged-traded notes i

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