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freedinner
 

Registered: Sep 2004
Posts: 39

 

07-09-12 01:44 PM

Outrageous story.

The facts behind the case between Merrill and the customer are not mentioned here, however it must have been quite obvious for the FINRA arbitrators as their decision overwhelmingly went in favor of the customer, while Merrill apparently saw no possibility to win an appeal. Instead, they worked behind the scenes to stick it to the arbitrators later.

Two other sordid details of the case: The customer committed suicide before the final verdict, probably because Merrill gambled away or stole his life savings. And one of the fired arbitrators now has started a whistleblower suit over FINRA practices, to be decided by the SEC, whose current head Mary Schapiro left her prior post as head of FINRA with an 8 million bonus...

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-...rike-again.html

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Tsing Tao
 

Registered: Mar 2009
Posts: 7356

 

07-09-12 02:38 PM

Nest of vipers.

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Bob111
 

Registered: May 2002
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07-09-12 02:41 PM

comment sums it up

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lionline
 

Registered: Jun 2011
Posts: 57

 

07-09-12 02:45 PM


Quote from freedinner:

Outrageous story.

The facts behind the case between Merrill and the customer are not mentioned here, however it must have been quite obvious for the FINRA arbitrators as their decision overwhelmingly went in favor of the customer, while Merrill apparently saw no possibility to win an appeal. Instead, they worked behind the scenes to stick it to the arbitrators later.

Two other sordid details of the case: The customer committed suicide before the final verdict, probably because Merrill gambled away or stole his life savings. And one of the fired arbitrators now has started a whistleblower suit over FINRA practices, to be decided by the SEC, whose current head Mary Schapiro left her prior post as head of FINRA with an 8 million bonus...

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-...rike-again.html




And how is this outrageous?


you wrote:

The facts behind the case between Merrill and the customer are not mentioned here, however it must have been quite obvious for the FINRA arbitrators as their decision overwhelmingly went in favor of the customer

so you do not know the facts and you think its quite obvious that arbitraters went overwhelmingly in favor of the customer that they were right.


so what if you hear of a case and the judge ordered a death penaltly and was later removed from his post
and there was no *details* of the case and you would think an overwelming punishment means the guy deserved it?



fucking idiots judging shit without facts.

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JamesL
 

Registered: Sep 2008
Posts: 2065

 

07-09-12 03:25 PM


Quote from lionline:

fucking idiots judging shit without facts.



SOP here at ET.

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freedinner
 

Registered: Sep 2004
Posts: 39

 

07-14-12 05:55 PM


Quote from lionline:

And how is this outrageous?


you wrote:

The facts behind the case between Merrill and the customer are not mentioned here, however it must have been quite obvious for the FINRA arbitrators as their decision overwhelmingly went in favor of the customer

so you do not know the facts and you think its quite obvious that arbitraters went overwhelmingly in favor of the customer that they were right.


so what if you hear of a case and the judge ordered a death penaltly and was later removed from his post
and there was no *details* of the case and you would think an overwelming punishment means the guy deserved it?



fucking idiots judging shit without facts.




I agree it is unfortunate that the author of the article did not include details of the matter that originally led to the arbitration.

However the fact is that ML chose not to appeal the decision. That means to me they saw very little chance in winning the same matter with a different panel of arbitrators.

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