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Hubert William Pereira
AWC/2008014390201

Pereira falsified customer signatures on copies of financial planning service agreements and on an insurance illustration form, and submitted the falsified documents to his member firm. The customers had not authorized Pereira to sign their names on the subject forms, but the customers had previously signed original forms that were submitted to the firm, and the forms Pereira falsified were copies of the originals that he submitted to his principal.

Hubert William Pereira: Fined $5,000; Suspended 4 months

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