An Ohio woman paid a $5,000 fine for pasting a client’s signature from a rollover form onto a new application for a variable annuity, according to FINRA records.

The woman, Debra Ann Friend, a registered principal in Conneaut, Ohio, learned that her member firm, which was not identified, had not processed a client’s rollover form, as well as a fixed and variable annuity application.

She was found to have cut the client’s signature from the first form and pasted it onto the new application. She also changed the date on the rollover form to a new date, then submitted all of the forms for processing.

The findings indicate the customer had not authorized the change and that Friend had not made any effort to contact the applicant about the changes.

Friend, who did not admit or deny the findings, was suspended from contact with any FINRA member from May 4 to Oct. 4, records show.