Well we have to admit to having taken our eye off of the ball over the question of how much money do Michael Earle Architect and Sidekick Trish now owe the unfortunate individuals who have ever worked for or with them in Spain.
The last we reported we had seen, with our own eyes and on a public site, debts amassing from the EMBEZZLEMENT OF WAGES AND SOCIAL SECURITY FRAUD amount to over €1.5m
The site is www.bopmalaga.org for those interested to see with their own eyes. Just go there and search for the filthy word EARLE and you'll see what we can see.
We just had a quick look at GUILTY VERDICTS ISSUED BY THE SPANISH COURTS AGAINST OUR HAPLESS HEROES for the month of March alone.
EMBEZZLEMENT AND SOCIAL SECURITY FRAUD don't forget.
RIPPING OFF INNOCENT EMPLOYEES, THEIR FAMILIES, CLIENTS, SUPPLIERS
The scores on the doors so far for GUILTY verdicts issued in March total approximately €175,000
Add this onto the €88,100 or so (excluding legal costs) for which our pleasant pooches have been found GUILTY throughout February and we're slowly but surely approaching the €2m mark.
Don't forget, this does not include monies owed (estimated to be approx. €3m) to clients and investors conned into parting with their money, nor many more demands we know have been issued but that haven't yet been processed by the courts and we're nicely on our way to double figures.
Once more, shall we :
MICHAEL EARLE ARCHITECT AND SIDEKICK TRISH FOUND GUILTY IN SPANISH COURTS OF LAW OF EMBEZZLEMENT AND SOCIAL SECURITY FRAUD TO THE TUNE OF €2M
Never let them know they're winning, huh, Michael?
Rubbish! This is just a smear campaign to wound an innocent businessman!
ReplyDeleteAll the court documents are falsifications.
All the demandees are just whinging thugs.
Mike n Trish were just victims of the economic downturn, just like everyone else.
Except for the luxury holiday to Morocco at Xmas whilst everyone else starved of course...
Oh, and the faked armed robbery and trans-European cops n robbers chase that, regretably, meant Binky couldn't pay that suitcase of €250k he had to it's rightful owners.
And those building projects that were caught up at the college of architects despite the fact that Binky had simply pocketed the cash.
Erm, oh yes...and the diddled accounts that Binky used to try and impress property developers in Dubai.
So, apart from the
EMBEZZLEMENT
SOCIAL SECURITY FRAUD
FAKED ARMED ROBBERY
CONSISTENT LIES TOLD TO STAFF, CLIENTS, AUTHORITIES, ADVERTISERS
Michael Earle Architect is as pure as the driven snow. Just another honest businessman trying to make ends meet.
You forgot to add "lies to investors" to the list, AndyG.
ReplyDeleteWe understand - and hope to expose as soon as possible, naturally - that he's even been telling financial porky pies about repaying a loan to one of his friends.
As the old saying goes, "with friends like Michael Earle Architect you don't need enemies".
Or should that be "With friends like Michael Earle Architect sooner or later you're gonna be diddled out of your life's savings"?
Ahh, the old armed robbery. Michael Earle architect pulls a staff meeting with a trumped up story of a robbery - a crime mystery that would make Ruth Rendell bite the end of her pencil off in a fiction frenzy.
ReplyDeleteSo okay let's put aside the fact that it's all a big lie and ask this question..
What was Michael Earle Architect doing in Madrid with everybody's Christmas wages in a swag bag? By his own admission a dodgy property deal apparently. However, something vexes me. How come none of us were asked if we minded giving up 3 months wages just before christmas 2008 so that Michael Earle could make a dodgy deal with some criminals? And... what was the cash profit turnaround of such a dodgy deal? Considering it was only a few days before Xmas hols, I doubt very much there would have been any sign of return before Christmas - therefore leaving employees and families absolutely skint for the holidays.
All this of course is subjective, because according to Mike, our wages were snatched by a gunman who he then chased to Paris - where a friendly Gendarme on the street immediately knew who he was chasing and took them to a big villa outside Paris. There Mike and the Gendarme found Ferraris and wealth of all kinds - which once the criminal gang had been prosecuted - would be cashed in and we would eventually receive the shortfall.
That my friends is why I cut my losses and left the company that afternoon.
Mike and Trish of course, after all the stress, had to go to Morocco to get over the trauma of the whole episode.
Don't believe me? There were about 15 of us in that meeting - we all heard the same cringeworthy story - and nearly all of us left the building that day.
You couldn't make it up... unless your name's Michael Earle Architect.
Ah yes - I remember that meeting well.
ReplyDeleteThe day started with Mike sitting in reception so he could greet each and every long-suffering employee with a (slightly nervous and hugely false) smile and to tell us all it was business as usual, get on with your work and Uncle Mike will tell us all about it in due course.
So everyone dutifully went to their desks, left the computers switched off and talked amongst themselves for a few hours until we were called into the board room and told of Binky's terrible ordeal.
You've gotta hand it to Mike - not many people could tell such a crock of shite without lauging at themselves. But, capable confidence trickster he most certainly is, he kept a straight face and the employees returned to their desks just a little bemused at what they'd just heard.
Sidekick Trish's reaction was quite interesting - she steamed back to her hideyhole fuming under breath words to the effect of "Goddam, well nobody seemed to believe THAT!" suggesting we were all dishonest, ungrateful little employees for not believing our beloved leader.
Yep, you were right Trish, nobody did believe it, probably explaining why by the end of the day you had no marketing ordesign team left and within a few days of that no company left (except of course the most desperate who stayed on simply on the off-chance of you thieving bastids ever coughing up their salaries; the scores of court cases against you and the guilty verdicts in each and every one being proof that, of course, you never did and were never going to).
Gotta hand it to you both, I've never experienced anything quite like it before or since - people just getting up and walking out on you in droves.
Quite a fitting legacy really. Nobody with faith in you, nobody believing you, nobody wanting to have anything to do with you.
You pathetic, grubby, thieving liars.
If we remember the fairytale correctly Dave, Mike actually hopped into a Policia Nacional car to chase the robbers from Madrid and up to the French border.
ReplyDeleteYou would have thought that international protocol would have kicked in there as the Spanish Policia Nacional have no jurisdiction whatsoever in France. Surely the French police force would have taken up pursuit in their own country?
But nope, not according to Michael Earle Architect. They just steamed on all the way up to Paris and with the help of a local Bobby went directly to source and smashed an international crime syndicate.
Another interesting question - if Binky knew the car he was chasing and the route it was driving, surely all he needed to do was call one of his mates in the Gendarmerie and have them stop the car at the border...?
Or is that a bit too simple and not egotistical enough for Michael Hans Cristian Anderson Earle Architect?
Don't forget as well - months ago a mysterious John Cartwright jumped to the defence of Binky saying that the incident was true and was due to be settled in court in September 2009. We asked for some simple proof to stop us making these ridiculous, untrue, defamatory and libelous statements...a simple photocopy of a police report (which Binky would have had) would have sufficed.
Surprise, surprise, Binky's great mate never got back to us.
Anyhow, we've been keeping an eye on court records for autonomous community of Madrid (yep Mike, they are available online too) and so far we've found no mention of the incident which we find surprising considering it was an international event and led to the successful demise of an international crime syndicate.
We also have a brother of one of our contributors who is a Policia Nacional. Erm surprise surprise he could find no reference to it either....
COME ON MIKE AND TRISH, WE KNOW YOU READ THIS - SILENCE YOUR CRITICS ON THIS MATTER ONCE AND FOR ALL. SEND US THE PROOF AND WE'll MAKE A PUBLIC APOLOGY. IT'S AS SIMPLE AS THAT....
Didn't he also use his old faithful yarn: "We're almost over the brough of the hill guys, you just gotta trust me on this"?
ReplyDeleteJeez - how many times de we hear that one!
I think we heard that one each and every time Binky flew off (on everyone's salaries) to Dubai - business class, of course - on yet another furitless trip to drum up business.
ReplyDeleteAnd every time we were told that the salaries would be paid late into our bank accounts.
And every time the employment officers came to the office to check up on alleged employment irregularities.
And every Friday once the gamgs of angry builders who had not been paid for months were talked out of hanging around in Reception to try and get what was owed to them.
No wonder it started sounding a bit hollow after a while!