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December 2010
Junior Kim AWC/2009017798901/December 2010
Kim changed customer telephone numbers to report inaccurate information, without the customers’ knowledge or authorization; and by making the changes to customers’ contact profiles, he caused the firm to create and maintain inaccurate books and records in the firm’s client account information system. Kim was aware that his firm’s policies prohibited its employees from making false and misleading entries in its books and records.
Kim subsequently admitted that he made the changes to the customer account information based on the instruction of senior members of his working team, in preparation for their departure from the firm. The findings also included that the firm immediately terminated Kim’s employment.
Junior Kim : Fined $5,000; Suspended 30 days; Consented, Agreed, and Undertaken to cooperate fully with FINRA in any and all investigations, litigation or other proceedings that concern, relate to or arise from the matters of the AWC; Kim has agreed to be interviewed by FINRA at such times as FINRA may reasonably request and to appear and testify truthfully and completely in such investigations or hearings as FINRA may reasonably request