FINRA Board Member Resigns After Suspension

Tracy Stoneman of Stoneman Law Firm in Westcliffe, Colo., said in a statement that she has long felt that FINRA and its predecessor, the National Association of Securities Dealers, have been “soft” on their members. She penned a book in 2002 titled “Brokerage Fraud: What Wall Street Doesn’t Want you to Know,” in which she criticized the regulators for being incapable of properly supervising their own members because of the “conflict in not wanting to bite the hand that feeds it.”

Stoneman, who’s about to write another book that she says will “have even harsher criticism of the regulators,” said that the recent FINRA board member sanction is a perfect example of a serious problem in the upper ranks of FINRA “when board members participate in the same wrongful activity that FINRA is charged with supervising.”