William Stafford Thurmond of New York New York a stockbroker formerly employed by EDI Financial Inc. has been fined $25,000.00 and suspended for fifteen months from associating with any Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) member in any capacity based upon consenting to findings that (1) Thurmond executed unauthorized trades in the customer’s account and (2)…

William Stafford Thurmond, of El Paso, Texas, a stockbroker formerly registered with EDI Financial, Inc., has been named in a customer initiated investment related arbitration claim, where the customer was awarded $212,731.00 in damages on January 20, 2016, based upon allegations that Thurmond breached his fiduciary obligations to the customer, effected trades which were neither…