According to a recent Letter of Acceptance, Waiver and Consent (AWC) with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), John Blakezuniga was accused of failing to disclose an outside business activity to his firm. For this, he was fined $5,000 and suspended for 30 days. Allegedly, between 2007 and 2013, Blakezuniga borrowed $775,000 from two firm customers in violation of Vanguard Capital’s policy.
According to his FINRA BrokerCheck report and public records, Blakezuniga was registered with Paine Webber from October 1981 until December 1983, Prudential-Bache Puerto Rico from January 1984 until April 1987, Prudential in New York, New York from December 1983 until February 1993, Lehman Brothers in New York from March 1993 until July 1993, Salomon Smith Barney in New York from July 1993 until February 1999 and Vanguard Capital in Irvine, California from February 1999 until December 2016. He is currently not registered in the industry.
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