David Alan Schams (CRD #1587140, Registered Representative, Alma, Wisconsin)

Investment and Securities Fraud and Misrepresentation FINRA Arbitration and Litigation Lawyer, Russell L. Forkey, Esq.

December, 2011:

David Alan Schams (CRD #1587140, Reg. Representative, Alma, Wisconsin) submitted an Offer of Settlement in which he was barred from association with any FINRA member in any capacity. Without admitting or denying the allegations, Schams consented to the described sanction and to the entry of findings that he accepted appointment as an alternative agent attorney-in-fact over a customer account, without his member firm’s express written consent. Schams was to receive approximately $90,000 from the customers’ estate; Schams accepted two $20,000 interest-free loans on the anticipated inheritance, without signing a promissory note evidencing the loan, contrary to the firm’s compliance policies that prohibited registered representatives from exercising or maintaining discretionary authority or power of attorney over customer accounts and borrowing money, accepting loans, issuing or transacting promissory notes or other similar forms of debt for customers without the express written consent of the firm’s compliance department. The findings also stated that Schams made material misstatements to his firm in a compliance questionnaire regarding borrowing money or accepting a loan from a client, holding any securities, stock powers, money or property belonging to a client, accepting client checks made payable to him, or endorsed to him personally or in the name of an entity, and managing or handling, in any way, the affairs of any client account on a discretionary basis. (FINRA Case #2009018293201).