Christopher Hibbard – Financial Advisor/Broker Barred from Securities Industry | Recover Investment Losses
Christopher Hibbard a/k/a Christopher Lee Hibbard CRD #3176484
Christopher Hibbard a/k/a Chistopher Lee Hibbard is a previously licensed financial advisor with Merrill Lynch from 2010 to 2018. According to Christopher Hibbard’s BrokerCheck report, Christopher Hibbard was barred from the securities industry by the SEC in April 2021.
According to the SEC:
The Commission finds that On June 30, 2020, Respondent pled guilty to one count of investment advisor fraud in violation of Title 15, United States Code, Sections 80b-6 and 80b-17, and nine counts of wire fraud in violation of Title 18, United States Code, Section 1343 before the United States District Court for the Western District of Kentucky, in United States v. Christopher L. Hibbard, Case No. 3:18-CR-182. On December 16, 2020, a judgment in the criminal case was entered against Respondent. He was sentenced to a prison term of 97 months followed by three years of supervised release and a special assessment of $1,000.
According to FINRA:
A complaint involving Christopher Hibbard’s conduct was filed, alleging theft and unauthorized annuity withdrawals from 2011 to 2014. This complaint was settled for $2,250,000. Several other complaints involving Hibbard’s conduct have been settled or remain pending.
Goodman & Nekvasil, P.A. May Recover Investor Losses
If you lost money on investments with Christopher Hibbard and believe the investments may have been unsuitable or otherwise improper for you, we would like to discuss the possibility of your retaining our firm to represent you in an arbitration action concerning Christopher Hibbard’s conduct. There is no charge for an evaluation of your case. Further, we handle our cases on a contingency fee basis. This means that unless we recover money for you, we charge no attorney’s fee. Unless you recover any money, you pay us nothing, not even the costs and expenses which the firm will advance on your behalf.
Kalju Nekvasil, Esq., formerly regional counsel with the NASD, now known as FINRA, has practiced in this area of the law for more than 35 years. Goodman & Nekvasil, P.A. has recovered more than $200 million on behalf of victimized investors. If you lost money on investments with Christopher Hibbard and would like your case evaluated by a securities attorney (again, there is no charge for an evaluation and all cases are handled on a purely contingency fee basis), please contact us.