Family suing investment first over son's suicide

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Alex Kearns, a student at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, was 20-years-old when he took his life last June after he misunderstood a potential loss from a stock-options trade. 9News

of a novice stock trader who died by suicide after mistakenly believing he lost more than $905,000 are suing Robinhood Financial, claiming the popular stock-trading platform’s business practices “directly” led to their son’s death.

Robinhood also provided little or no investment guidance to its users, and its customer service was limited to automated e-mails, according to the complaint. Then, after 3.30am, Mr Kearns got an email from Robinhood saying he needed to deposit more than US$178,000 within seven days to begin to address the negative balance, according to the lawsuit.'QAnon Shaman' rioter will eat organic food, while most prisons and jails have reputation for serving food that is unhealthy

Robinhood, which is based in Menlo Park, California, issued a statement in response to the lawsuit Monday saying it was devastated by Mr Kearns' death and has since made improvements to its options offerings. In December, regulators in Massachusetts filed an administrative complaint against the company, alleging that Robinhood violated securities laws by aggressively marketing itself to Massachusetts investors without regard for the best interest of its customers.

 

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His parents brought him up to only win

Do not engage in usury.

I'm sorry but no. It's not their fault he took his own life

he should fuck off and not try to get money for nothing

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