BRUCE ROBERT GEIGER (CRD #1591606, VISALIA, CALIFORNIA)

Bruce Robert Geiger (CRD #1591606, Visalia, California) submitted an Offer of Settlement in which he was fined $5,000 and suspended from association with any FINRA member in any capacity for three and one-half months. Without admitting or denying the allegations, Geiger consented to the sanctions and to the entry of findings that he falsified documents by using non-authentic signatures and altered dates to effect transactions relating to customers’ accounts. The findings stated Geiger altered forms by adding dates to customers’ signatures after the customers had signed the forms, re-used original customers’ signature pages from forms that were previously executed, and altered the dates of the customers’ signatures. Geiger falsified forms relating to the accounts of customers to cause disbursements totaling approximately $562,008.65. Geiger’s member firm reminded him that re-using signatures, altering dates, and completing forms in pencil were inconsistent with the firm’s policies and procedures, but Geiger continued to engage in each of these prohibited practices. The suspension is in effect from July 20, 2015, through November 3, 2015. According to FINRA records, Geiger was affiliated with Woodbury Financial Services, Inc. from December 2010 to July 2015. (See, FINRA Case #2011026440401).