A registered representative from Grand Ridge, Fla., was fined $5,000 and suspended from FINRA for six months for improperly handling deferred compensation plan enrollments.

William Curtis Wester was found to have submitted deferred compensation plan enrollment packets excluding a required variable annuity worksheet to his member firm on customers’ behalf, according to FINRA records. As a result of receiving the incomplete packets, the firm suspended the processing of the enrollment packets until Wester submitted the worksheets for each of the customers.

FINRA investigators found that Wester obtained the variable annuity worksheet forms, completed the form for each of the customers and signed the customers’ names to the worksheets without their knowledge or authorization.

Wester submitted the falsified forms to his firm as authentic, which caused the firm’s books and records to be inaccurate.

The suspension of Wester, who neither admitted nor denied the allegations, ends May 1.