Goodman & Nekvasil P.A, May Recover Investor Losses – Michael William Hajek III (Michael Hajek) Formerly Licensed with Cetera Financial Specialists LLC, Suspended from Securities Industry
From 2003 until 2013, Michael Hajek was licensed with Cetera Financial Specialists LLC Michael Hajek was then licensed with NFP Securities, Inc.
FINRA brought a disciplinary action against Michael Hajek in 2016. Michael Hajek consented to an 18-month suspension and a $35,000 monetary fine. Michael Hajek consented to the entry of findings that Michael Hajek exceeded the scope of his member firms’ approval to conduct his CPA business, Hajek & Hajek CPA’s P.A., by assisting customers to open and administer self-directed individual retirement accounts away from the firms and by recommending and facilitating customers’ investments in those accounts, some of which included securities. The findings stated that Michael Hajek’s firms’ customers transferred a total of nearly $1.8 million in cash and assets from their firm accounts to their self-directed IRA accounts. Michael Hajek was required to notify his firms in writing of his participation in them prior to participating in them and Michael Hajek failed to do so.
If you lost any money on investments with Michael Hajek, including investments in promissory notes and private placements, you may be able to recover your losses from Cetera Financial Specialists LLC and/or NFP Securities, Inc. This is because Cetera Financial Specialists LLC and NFP Securities, Inc. had a duty to supervise Michael Hajek.
If you lost money on investments with Michael Hajek, including investments in promissory notes and private placements, and believe that 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 against Cetera Financial Specialists LLC and/or NFP Securities, Inc., concerning Michael Hajek’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 $300 million on behalf of victimized investors. If you lost money on any investments with Michael Hajek, including investments in promissory notes and private placements, 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.
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