A4e Fraud.

In this article we intend to highlight the business practices of A4e. We know A4e will threaten to sue us for this but its only makes the process of such more fun. I personally think its best to throw a few pieces in and allow people to work it out themselves instead of writing it start to finish persuading people to think a certain way and be accused of being propaganda. In our defence this article will be sent to all news channels, the papers etc. and on the internet via twitter and facebook. 

All we ask is you link to this article refraining from copying and pasting it all. We have spent a long time researching this, so please allow the site some exposure (no one will follow the link if the content is already displayed). This article could be the difference between A4e keeping its contract and losing them (if they lose all their contracts they will never get any more).

A4e tries to censor the internet

On numerous occasions A4e has attempted to censor the internet. A sister website of IUA, once when hosted on wordpress.com was taken down on numerous occasions by Automattic Inc after legal threats from A4e. This was due to fair play reporting on fraud happening at A4e… i.e. it might have been damaging to them but was truthful – as A4e is solely funded by the taxpayer they needed to know. This is what we mean by “fair play” – it wasn’t defamation or lies.

Watching A4e (the original version) was successful shut down by A4e. There are numerous cases of other websites and people being censored by A4e.

Verdict:- A4e clearly likes to eradicate criticisms rather than allowing a minority to have an opinion.

A4e spams PR and positive propaganda

To hide up any criticisms, A4e invests its time considerably in numerous social networking accounts and company websites, publishing non-stop “positive PR propaganda” designed to flood the internet hiding the negative aspects.

Of course a business wants its name out there but most choose advertising and community-level PR. I do not know of any business even a quarter the size of A4e that continuously relies on free spamming of PR as a sole form of advertising.

Verdict:- A4e has no intention of advertising – they don’t really need to – but this low-level promotion seems always to begin on a cycle as a combat to negative press about the business. Emma Harrison herself even spent hours on twitter spamming “good things” about A4e as the walls started to crumble around her. Not the typical thing a Chairperson and majority shareholder of a multi-million pound company does.

Emma Harrison ego outgrew the restrains of w2w

There is a typical reason why no face of a welfare-to-work provider (i.e. founder, owner or executive) enters the public domain as a celebrity or known entrepreneur. There was a time when no one really knew who this Emma Harrison was. We liked that time.

When the company started to obtain larger contracts, Emma Harrison wanted to spread her wings (she doesn’t have any) – her ego got too large… “I am a millionaire, I help tens of thousands of people, employ thousands” (not a quote of her) She wanted to show her face… “I OWN THIS FUCKING MULTI-MILLION POUND BUSINESS!!!” (again not a quote – dramatisation) “This is ME!” (also not a quote)

This then involved an arrogant Emma Harrison. She should have played the lovable character… but kept with the “tough love” stuff AND then rubbed the jobseekers and taxpayers noses into her cosy life. The latter was a bad thing to do, however, it is a turn on to have thousands hating you because you are richer than them. Known from here-on in as “envy” – Emma Harrison wanted millions to envy her as a successful female entrepreneur. This is power.

(She isn’t an entrepreneur, only income is from Government – we will cover this shortly.)

She flexed her muscle far too much in regards to where she lives… and that recent £8.6m dividend didn’t really help. If she played the loveable character however, she would have never got this rich and bowed due to pressure.

Apart from her being a bitch, you cannot really blame her. Household names of penniless people who have spent a few weeks in a stage set house were very much more popular than her with her wealth and self-styled success. She wanted to be a celebrity – but not an airhead, someone in power also.

Being a “family champion” filled that void. But by doing so in an unpopular Government, she bitten off a little too much than she could chew.

Verdict:- Emma Harrison should have stayed out of the lime light. It has now cost her potentially the future of her business. Emma being a hate figure is a catalyst to the downfall of A4e.

A4e are bullies

A4e is very much like a private business version of the whole public DWP setup. All staff and jobseekers aren’t free from being bullied. This works well, pressure onto staff makes them take their stress out on jobseekers.

Verdict:- A4e is a bully.

A4e do not pay their partners

It isn’t just the taxpayer getting a raw deal. To name just one example of this, The People’s Supermarket will close next week forever… This isn’t to do with its business model necessarily but A4e agreed to pay TPS to train jobseekers. A4e owes TPS £15,000 for training 17 jobseekers into work – this is plenty to meet its liabilities of business rates which has forced its closure in one weeks time.

A4e knew very well the financial situation of The People’s Supermarket but entered into a business agreement anyway, knowing TPS as a small business cannot afford to commence legal action against A4e to recover the owed monies. A4e therefore feels that it doesn’t owe TPS a penny. A4e got job outcomes at taxpayers expense nevertheless.

Verdict:- A4e calls itself a social business or social purpose business, although one could argue that TPS is more fitting of such description. Even if it was a social business, can A4e have a social purpose if it intends not only to steal from another social business but to allow one to hit the wall?

A4e companies

A4e has previously swapped companies.
A4e has tried before to avoid corporation tax by registering an LLP to no success.
A4e had registered a non-profit business called A4e FUNDRAISING LTD that we assume as a new avenue/income stream.

Verdict:- They seem entrepreneurial at pushing legal boundaries.

A4e and Government corruption

David Blunkett – We are unsure whether it was a sexual thing with Emma Harrison or solely financial. David Blunkett is an paid advisor for the company now. A4e got its Government contracts through corruption and bribes.

Verdict:- A4e didn’t get their New Deal contracts through open and fair competition. 

A4e Fraud

A4e and Fraud goes hand in hand.

9 in-depth fraud investigations into A4e in recent times.
2 current police investigations and 4 arrests.

From memory…  zero day fraud (recent), misrepresentation, timesheet fraud, common fraud, windowing (phrase a quote from A4e employees), leeching, exiting

Verdict:- A cat only has 9 lives. Its over this time. Emma knows it.

Emma Harrison tries to jump ship

To avoid prosecution A4e Emma Harrison CBE, has decided to step down as chairperson from A4e forgetting a few minor MAJOR details:-

• Its not what position you are when you are prosecuted but the position you were when the crime happened
• You are still a director holding you liable – more so than a chairperson
• You are a majority shareholder so you are under law a “shadow director” so hold liability as a shareholder

Verdict:- Emma Harrison obviously isn’t that clever that we all gave her credit for or maybe it was a heat of the moment thing after a major panic.

Neil Watson

Neil Watson appears to be a dodgy cunt.

When A4e was investigated for fraud in 2009 – A4e compromised and employed Sarah Aston as Group Head of Risk (Until June 2011 – she is now Assurance Director – says linkedin) – this resulted in Finance Director Neil Watson losing his job. We picked this up when Neil Watson resigned as a director. A4e tried to sue us for this.

In case you don’t know… A director is a common law officer of a company – they have unlimited liability for its actions.
Our logic … FRAUD INVESTIGATION + RESIGNATION OF FINANCE DIRECTOR  + DIRECTORSHIP RESIGNATION = DODGY???

Actually, he didn’t lose his job. he got demoted once Sarah Aston took over with an audit. A4e employee Darren Marsh alerted us that he wasn’t sacked or resigned (we were only talking about directorship here) but someone called Mark Stanley took over as Finance Director and Neil Watson was working below the new Finance Director.

This is unprecedented – this is a demotion, completely after fraud investigation and was stripped from having unlimited liability for the business.

What do you know? As soon as we heard reports of A4e being investigated for fraud AGAIN we checked the staff…

He is now the “Interim Group Financial Director“!!! Coincidence of not, he is the only person in the “senior team” without a photo. He wasn’t reappointed as a company director strangely enough (maybe as its interim?)  but is the company secretary for A4e Ltd.

Verdict:- I wouldn’t trust this person in my company with the finance! But then again I wouldn’t trust any of those working for A4e.