Troubled tequila company duped investors, AG says

A former New Jersey securities broker has been banned from doing business in the Garden State and fined $150,000 after authorities say he steered clients toward investments in a New York tequila company that defrauded investors. Michael W. Mandel, who worked for a series of Bergen County brokerages, was moonlighting as a“ financial advisor” for 6 Degree Tequila…