the landscape institute financial timeline of a fraud

7/31/2019 The Landscape Institute Financial Timeline of a Fraud

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Another Libellous??? Statement by Gabino Carballo CMLI1

THE LANDSCAPE INSTITUTE TIMELINE OF A FRAUD 17 JUNE 2009

OR HOW NIGEL THORNE, NEIL WILLIAMS , JO WATKINSAND OTHERS BANKRUPTED OUR INSTITUTE!!!!


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The LI has rarely met its OWNIncome Forecasts. It has traded at a

Loss in 4 out of 6 Years.

Income remains stableover several years

LI Forecast1ST MARCH 2009

THE LANDSCAPE INSTITUTE HAS ENJOYED STABLE INCOME FOR SEVERAL YEARS ,AND IT EXPECTS TO ATTAIN SIMILAR LEVELS OF INCOME IN THE NEAR FUTURE.


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INCOME

EXPECTED INCOME (BUDGET)

SEE DETAIL IN THEFOLLOWING SLIDE

THE LANDSCAPE INSTITUTE EXPECTED TO INCREASE ITS INCOME BY MORE THAN 400,000 IN 2008-09.NEARLY 25% MORE IN ONE SINGLE YEAR WHEN IT HAD FAILED TO MEET ITS PREVIOUS BUDGETS.

Income does grow atspectacular rates for 2years. it tapers off later

and PEAKS in 2007-08.


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INCOME

EXPENDITURE

DETAIL OF ACTUAL vs EXPECTED INCOME AND SPENDING (BUDGET)

EXPENDITURE VS INCOMEIN 2008-2009



EXPENDITUREINCREASES BY 330,000

OVER TWO YEARS

EXPENDITUREEXCEEDS BUDGET

BY 121,000

INCOME INCREASES BY150,000 IN ONE YEAR

THE LANDSCAPE INSTITUTES FINANCIAL SITUATION HAS ITS ORIGINS IN RECKLESS SPENDING

AND WHAT APPEARS TO BE DELIBERATE MISMANAGEMENT DESIGNED TO CONCEAL IT.

EXPENDITUREINCREASES BY 300,000

IN ONE YEAR

INCOME INCREASES BY90,000 OVER TWO

YEARS

EXPECTED INCREASE ININCOME EXCEEDS 400,000

25% IN ONE YEAR


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IN 2007-2008, THE LANDSCAPE INSTITUTE OVERSPENT AT THE TUNE OF 121,000 IN ONE SINGLE YEARABOVE WHAT HAD BEEN BUDGETED FOR THAT YEAR. THIS HAS NEVER BEEN REVEALED TO THE MEMBERSHIP


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Record Income

THE LANDSCAPE INSTITUTE EXPENDITURE HAS GROWN OUT OF CONTROL WHILST ITS INCOME HAS REMAINEDSTABLE. THOSE IN CHARGE DURING THIS TIME ARE BEING PROMOTED TO THE TOP.

Record Loss

Honorary TreasurerJo Watkins

President

Jo Watkins ?

Record Income

Record Loss

Record Loss

Income Stabilizes

Record Spending


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THE LANDSCAPE INSTITUTE HAS CONSISTENTLY ISSUED FALSE AND MISLEADING STATEMENTS DESIGNED TOCONCEAL THE FACTS FROM ITS MEMBERSHIP. IT HAS DISMISSED WORKERS UPON FALSE PRETEXTS AND IS

ATTEMPTING TO DISPOSE OF ITS HERITAGE TO SAVE THE REPUTATION OF THOSE INVOLVED WITH THIS MORE

THAN POTENTIAL FRAUD. TRUSTEES ARE PERSONALLY LIABLE FOR 121,000

we are faced with is not one of a temporary downturn but of a rapid reduction in recurrent income which will remain at a low level for the

foreseeable future. This has implications for our staffing structure (...). As of October 2008 we had a have a staffing structure which is financiallyunsustainable and there is no prospect of it being so for the next 2-3 years (...)

Alastair McCapra - 23 February 2009

The financial situation has come out of the blue and if of great concern to all of us. Basically we just werent being given the correct information and amuch rosier position was being painted than was actually the case, which coupled with the sharp downturn in advertising revenue and the Govt changing therules on gift aid has left us in the lurch. It may well be that we took our eye off the ball, however we have put in place a Chief Executive Officer, who takes

overall responsibility for the financial state of the LI.(...) it has become clear that the LI simply does not have the resources to manage (the Archives) properly inthe long term.

Jo Watkins 14 November 2008

Gabino (...) Were you to meet the Trustees, I'm certain you would be re-assured that their motives are indeed honourable.

Neil Williamson - 18 March 2009

However the main financial problem we have faced this year and will continue to face is not the misstatement of our financial position in themanagement accounts (...). The major problem is that around 1/3 of the organisations income in recent years came from advertising

revenue, and this has disappeared very rapidly indeed in recent months. We have had to restructure the organisation around a smaller future incomebase to take account of this.

Alastair McCapra - 11 March 2009

There is no corruption, no scandal, and nothing undemocratic in the matters that have been made transparent and available to all of youwith regards to the current state of affairs at the LI. If you have proof that this is not the case I ask you to stop postulating and inform the

appropriate legal authorities in order that the matter can be resolved without further ado. No member has the right to question the dedication and

commitment of any other member unless they can substantiate their claim. .

Nigel Thorpe - 29 May 2009

Another Libellous Statement by Gabino Carballo CMLI

You have requested copies of the monthly management accounts for the period April-October 2008. Trustees do not regard these management

accounts as reliable and they will therefore not be released..

Alastair McCapra 30 April 2009



THE LANDSCAPE INSTITUTE PRESIDENT, THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER, THE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ANDTHE COUNCIL HAVE FAILED TO LIVE UP TO OUR STANDARDS AND THEY ARE LIKELY TO HAVE BROKEN THE LAW,JOINTLY AND SEVERALLY. THEY ARE, RIGHT NOW, ATTEMPTING TO STRIP US OF OUR HERITAGE AND CONCEAL

THE FACT THAT OUR DUES HAVE BEEN MISMANAGED, AND POTENTIALLY MISUSED FOR THE PERSONALBENEFIT OF SEVERAL TRUSTEES AND EMPLOYEES. THIS AMOUNTS TO FRAUD AS TORT AND POTENTIAL

CORRUPTION

Fraud, in addition to being a criminal act, is also a type of civil Law violation known as a Tort. A tort is a civil wrong for which the law provides aremedy. A civil fraud typically involves the act of intentionally making a false representation of a material fact, with the intent to deceive, which is

reasonably relied upon by another person to that person's detriment. A "false representation" can take many forms, such as:

A false statement of fact, known to be false at the time it was made;

A statement of fact with no reasonable basis to make that statement;

A promise of future performance made with an intent, at the time the promise was made, not to perform as promised;

A statement of opinion based on a false statement of fact;

A statement of opinion that the maker knows to be false; or

An expression of opinion that is false, made by one claiming or implying to have special knowledge of the subject matter of the opinion. "Specialknowledge" in this case means knowledge or information superior to that possessed by the other party, and to which the other party did not have

equal access.

An intentional omission or concealment of some material fact done with the design of deceiving another party, and done with theintent that the other party rely on the deception.

Fraud as tort - Wikipedia 9 June 2009

Standard 1 : Landscape Architects should at all times act with integrity and avoid any action or situations which are inconsistent withtheir professional obligations.

1.1 Landscape Architects should not make, support or collaborate in any statement, written or otherwise, which is contrary to their professionalopinion, or which they know to be misleading, or unfair to others, or otherwise discreditable to the profession.

Landscape Institute Code of Professional Conduct and Practice September 2000



I WAS FIRST CENSORED FOR THIS MESSAGE AND LATER PERMANENTLY BANNED FOR POSTING SIMILARMESSAGES. I HAD NOT, TO THE BEST OF MY MEMORY, POSTED ANY INSULTS, PERSONAL ATTACKS OR USEDFOUL LANGUAGE. ALASTAIR McCAPRA AND NEIL WILLIAMSON HAVEDELIBERATELY AND CONSISTENTLY-

MISLEAD THE MEMBERSHIP AT LARGE ABOUT MY VIEWS, MY CHARACTER AND MY BEHAVIOUR.

Dear Sir/Madam, I have just received a Communication from the Landscape Institute regarding some fairly ugly financial difficulties. I have not heard about them before, but I amnot surprised by it in the least. This kind of trouble has been brewing at the landscape Institute for quite a long time, specially since the people appointed to serve in it had, for along time, a lot more to gain from being involved with it than they were able to offer in the way of service to their fellow members.

In my opinion, the Landscape Institute has become an opaque and profoundly undemocratic institution where decisions have been taken on the self-aggrandizing notions of afew, bent on aping larger and more prestigious professional bodies. The Institution's arcane working methods and election procedures have served to further some careers at theexpense of members' long term interests, whose real needs have been ignored. The absurd move to 33 Portland Street is a fine example. It would be sufficient to re-read thebombastic proclamations of the time, intended to justify such an clownish behaviour, to understand why we find ourselves scuttling out of such a grandiose location in search of anew "affordable home".

With regards to the expensive change in publisher, my view is that it may have been necessary at the time, but it was divisive and faintly vindictive of some members seemed

just to eager to bury Sir Jeoffrey Jellicoe's legacy. He would be turning on his grave if he knew what a bunch of wannabes have done to his beloved profession.

Breaking with the Landscape Design Trust weakened us as a profession as a whole. In spite of all the hype and the grandiose mumbo jumbo that goes for professional speechthese days, we are still a small and largely irrelevant profession. Throwing decades of collaboration and free exchange of ideas out of the window in return for glossypresentation and property development clap trap was a bad idea and still is.

With regards to the "mistake" in the management accounts, I personally "do not suffer from the tragedy of perfection", so I am not one free from error. However, I served asvoluntary accountant for a non profit organisation for twelve months. I spotted a big gap in the accounts to the extent of te ns of thousands of euros. It took me months of worryand very late nights to work out what the heck was going on. I finally managed to get the accounts into shape and allocated responsibilities where they belonged. The lessonlearned is that there is no such a thing as "wrong management accounts". There is "mismanagement" only.

During my long stay under the grey British skies, I learned a few things about landscape design but a great deal more about some of the best qualities one can hope for in anysociety: love for hard and honest work, personal integrity and dignity in the face of adversity, respect for facts, for other people's views and freedom of opinion, willingness toback the underdog and to fight for things that are close to one's heart without fear of unjust and destructive retaliation from the powers that be.

These notions may not be all that apparent after the putrid and amoral legacy that some smarmy politicians and their financial acolytes have left us, but they are still poignantlyvalid. I gain neither respect nor recognition in my own country for my LI membership: every cent I spent on it is, to all effects,wasted, but I have not given it up out of loyalty to myprofession. Now, I feel that I must do the right thing and write to you calling for mass resignation at all levels in the LI. A public apology from a great deal of people is in order too.Calling the Police in would not be amiss either.

Yours Sincerely, Gabino Carballo CMLI, Barcelona, SpainPosted in the Talking Landscapes Forum on 11th of March 2009

You can be as critical as you like of the LI in your postings but if you post material which looks to me like personal attack, I will remove it.

Alastair McCapra - 12th of March 2009

http://landscapedestitute.blogspot.com/

The only reason anyone has been excluded from this discussion forum is because of ranting, hysterical personal attacks, not for being critical, orproposing change. Nobody has been excluded as a result of, for example, posting incorrect 'facts' about the LI .

Alastair McCapra - 9 April 2009

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