That Thursday, Savoy left his Euro Pacific office without indicating he was quitting, the federal and Finra complaints cited colleagues as saying. The next day at 2 p.m., he sent his one-line e-mail to Schiff. "Please see attached document,” it read. It was his resignation letter.

By then, Savoy’s new Saddle Brook office was allegedly filled with account-transfer packages. Each included a letter signed by O’Dell, which was prepared while Savoy was still a Euro Pacific employee, the firm told Finra. Over the next three days, it said, Savoy solicited his old clients “on a mass scale.”

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It wasn’t until the Tuesday morning that Euro Pacific learned Savoy was gone, according to e-mails filed with Finra. By then, Euro Pacific said in a letter to Oppenheimer, “possibly over a hundred” customers had already received calls, e-mails or FedEx packages with the signature-ready transfer forms.

Savoy and Oppenheimer misappropriated trade secrets, conspired to breach Savoy’s confidentiality pacts and slandered Euro Pacific, the firm alleged in its Connecticut request for a restraining order, to which Oppenheimer consented.

Oppenheimer, in its Finra response, said it never possessed the Euro Pacific data.

Oppenheimer terminated Savoy early June 22, without his lump payout. The next month, Euro Pacific dropped Savoy as a target of its suit.

Now, Savoy is selecting an attorney, said the person close to him, as he battles Oppenheimer’s allegation that he lied about the terms of his Euro Pacific employment and duped Oppenheimer into hiring him. Oppenheimer told Finra it wants Savoy to foot the bill for any financial damages it may suffer.

The case is scheduled to go before Finra arbitrators in late November.

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