While at the SEC, Pat traveled the United States taking sworn testimony from brokers, firm officers, sales managers, and Ponzi scheme operators. Pat has looked into the dark corners of the securities industry and seen things, even at the biggest firms on Wall Street, which no investor could anticipate. Since leaving the SEC, he has put that knowledge to work as an attorney for investors with disputes against brokerage firms.
In more than a decade representing investors, Pat often has had to
tell them that there is little hope of recovering their money, either
because the offending brokerage firm is defunct or because the “investment”
was never anything other than a well-disguised scam. In most cases,
a pre-investment review of the broker’s background or the offering materials
for the proposed investment would have exposed the danger of the transaction.
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Motivated by a desire to protect investors from reckless brokers and professional scam artists, Pat created Investor’s Watchdog to help investors avoid the transactions and relationships that could cost them their life savings.
Pat is a frequent lecturer on investor protection topics. He has spoken to large groups of attorneys, accountants, and financial advisers about protecting investors. He has been published in Trial magazine, the magazine of the American Association of Justice, and his materials on protecting investors in cases involving unsuitable variable annuity sales were included in the course materials for the 2005 PLI Institute on Securities Arbitration.
Pat has served as an expert witness in securities litigation cases, and he was appointed by the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia, on the recommendation of the SEC, to act as Receiver in a case involving a $5 million nationwide Ponzi scheme. [SEC v. Archie Paul Reynolds a/k/a/ Dr. A. Paul Reynolds and Success Trust and Holding LLC, Civil Action File No. 1:06CV01801 (N.D. Ga.).] Pat and his staff are working to obtain justice for the hundreds of innocent investors victimized by that fraud. Pat is a 1987 cum laude graduate of Mercer University Law School. He lives in Kennesaw, Georgia, with his wife Carol and their two sons. Pat coaches baseball at the nationally recognized East Cobb Baseball program. The family attends North Metro Church.
