(HedgeCo.Net) The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged a Wall Street stockbroker with illegally accepting more than $1 million in undisclosed kickbacks for giving certain customers preferential access to lucrative IPOs, enabling them to reap major trading profits in the secondary markets.<\/p>\n
The SEC alleges that Brian Hirsch subverted allocation policies and procedures at two brokerage firms where he worked on the wealth syndicate desk, making long-running arrangements with certain customers to give them larger allocations of coveted public offerings being marketed by the firms. In most instances, the customers sold their stock into the market as soon as possible to turn a substantial profit at the expense of the firms\u2019 other brokerage customers and the issuers\u2019 interests in raising capital from long-term investors.<\/p>\n
\u201cKickback schemes are pernicious and have no place in the securities markets,\u201d said Sanjay Wadhwa, Senior Associate Director for Enforcement in the SEC\u2019s New York Regional Office. \u201cAs alleged in our complaint, Hirsch lined his own pockets by secretly sharing in customer trading profits that he engineered in violation of his obligations to his employers.\u201d<\/p>\n
The SEC\u2019s complaint also charges Hirsch\u2019s customer Joseph Spera, who allegedly made approximately $4 million in trading profits on the offering allocations he received from Hirsch. Spera allegedly paid Hirsch approximately $1 million in cash. <\/p>\n
The U.S. Attorney\u2019s Office for the District of New Jersey has filed parallel criminal charges against Hirsch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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