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Karen Tautges Parisian suspended by FINRA.
In December, 2015, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (“FINRA”) announced that Karen Tautges-Parisian of Minnetonka, MN formerly with Ameriprise Financial Services of New Prague, MN submitted an acceptance, waiver and consent letter whereby she was suspended from association with any FINRA member in any capacity for nine months and fined $5,000. The 2014 FINRA complaint alleged that Tautges-Parisian made unsuitable recommendations to a customer to participate in penny stock transactions. FINRA found the transactions represented an overconcentration of the customer’s assets in risky securities, and that the customer was not in a position to bear the loss of such an investment.
Registration and disciplinary history
In order to lawfully sell investments to the public, a registered rep must either be registered or exempt from registration. Karen Tautges-Parisian was registered with Ameriprise Financial from October, 2001 through December, 2013.
According to FINRA’s CRD disclosure report, Karen Tautges-Parisian has been the subject of two customer complaints and one regulatory investigation.
The Law Office of David Liebrader practices exclusively in the field of investment loss recovery. For the past 23 years, we have dedicated our law practice to assisting investors who have been victims of investment fraud via fraudulent and unsuitable investment transactions. During that time we have recovered money for over one thousand individuals, pension plans, trusts and companies. The recoveries we have obtained via judgments, awards and settlements on behalf of our clients exceed $40,000,000.
When investors contact our firm they can expect prompt attention, and a detailed analysis of their issues. Typical claims that we are asked to review involve “unsuitability (where a financial advisor makes investment recommendations that are inconsistent with a customer’s investment objectives), claims for “churning” (where a broker enters into an excessive number of trades for the purpose of generating commissions), claims involving illiquid investments such as private placements (I.e., real estate investment trusts, limited partnerships, equipment leasing and oil and gas drilling programs) as well as claims for violations of state securities laws, which often provide investors remedies like attorney’s fees and interest, if they are successful on the claim.
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