The Urban Affairs Coalition (UAC) nonprofit is entrusted with $10M annually from the Department of General Services (DGS) (General Fund) to spend on its operating expenses.
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General Services Contract Number: 4400008156 (4400007410 (Parent))
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As the prime contractor for General Fund money, taxpayers would reasonably believe UAC is responsible for ensuring that taxpayer dollars are used as intended and safeguarded.
The Urban Affairs Coalition’s Senior Vice President of Business Services, Kevin Satterthwaite, recommends The Hierarchy to its sixty-five (65) Program Partners as “one of the best IT companies in the region”.
The Hierarchy is a catfish. See: Click Here
Why would these sixty-five program partners (Here) trust any vendor UAC steers business to when UAC laughs when its top IT Services vendor steals paychecks and bills clients for hours nobody works?
Every nonprofit program partner UAC includes in its 990s needs to know that a thief is running amok, and UAC doesn’t care.
Was Urban Affairs Coalition not permitted to use 4400007410 for labor? Is that why they classified the timesheets as COTS software?
The Hierarchy, owned by poseur Jacques Latoison, masquerades as a Pennsylvania mid-size company; it has zero employees and is located in Delaware.
UAC knows con man Latoison has eleven (11) federal tax liens amounting to nearly $300,000, a state delinquent tax judgment of $88,000, and a city of Philadelphia tax judgment of at least $10,000.
The number of financial judgments against Latoison that he laughs off across several states is staggering.
Despite knowing these troubling facts, UAC has chosen to contract with The Hierarchy for staffing services, payroll processing, and IT services. UAC’s legal counsel, Malcolm Ingram—who is also compensated by the General Fund—proudly informs the Department of Labor that The Hierarchy does not issue 1099s or W-2s.
It should have come as no surprise to UAC that Jacques Latosion stole general fund money.
Latoison knows UAC will not do anything about the theft and will continue to use his services. Kevin Satterthwaite and Malcolm Ingram allegedly contend that the misappropriated General Fund money is not their concern.
The Hierarchy has billed UAC for labor hours, paid from the General Fund, not worked by anyone, at $90 per hour for ten (10) years. UAC confirmed that Jacques Latoison embezzled paychecks and seized considerable overtime from its UAC worker.
Zero-Based Budgeting
It appears UAC attempted to use the Zero-Based Budgeting model in its questionable spending of General Fund money. The department leaders must justify every expense to the finance team, explaining why and how they plan to use the funds.
Did Kevin Satterthwaite self-report that he planned on paying a con man tax-cheat as a staffing agency and payroll processor that does not issue 1099s or W2s?
UAC is required by law to make its financial statements available to the general public, including its annual report. The report provides an overview of the nonprofit’s financial health and activities. The IRS hasn’t published the UAC financials since June 2022.
UAC hasn’t posted its 990 on its own website since June 2020.
The last financial UAC posted was June 2019.
As a perspective, babies born on June 30, 2019, are in the second grade.
UAC advises its vendors whose bid exceeds the $7,500 three-bid threshold to circumvent the pesky dollar limit by splitting their bid over two fiscal years. Swatterhaite tells the vendors that the auditors never look for that scheme. This is an unethical deception of the spirit of the General Fund.
The General Fund pays EWYK Malcolm Ingram’s legal fees
What does the Bradley and Bradley Associates Crime, Fiduciary, and D&O policies paid by the General Fund cover if not this?
Malcolm Ingram needs to answer how many other contractors he told the DOL were not “employees”. He thinks the wronged employees’ gag orders last forever. Rumor has it that there was a recent big-time take down of UAC. Ingram is like the Buffalo Bills of lawyers (“Boy, I Love to Lose Super Bowls”).
It’s no surprise that Malcolm Ingram is driving up UAC’s legal expenses. He is paid to create chaos, prolong cases, and, unfortunately, he loses over 95% of the time. Is the General Fund ever audited? How can this case not be seen as a conflict of interest, given that Ingram is compensated from the same taxpayer General Fund money that was plundered by the thief? Allegedly, he is being paid more to lose cases than most of the victims are receiving in compensation.
Grant Fraud 101
Five (5) UAC employees signed off on “The Hierarchy” timesheet labor invoices in NetSuite, charged against the Department of General Services (DGS) (General Fund) cash-in-hand slush fund. Kevin Satterthwaite (CFO), #4 in the chain, pushes the invoices to Accounting.
UAC was fully aware that tax cheat con man Jacques Latoison, the one-man owner of The Hierarchy, had been consistently delaying payments to the UAC employee for seven months and ceased all payments effective April 15, 2023. Yet they kept depositing payroll to his business account, they knew he would steal.
The Hierarchy was using the programmers’ pay as its personal bank, and UAC knew it.
Things went south when Latoison started keeping the paycheck money for himself, knowing UAC would do nothing about the grand theft.
UAC EDP Executive Jones was aware that Latoison was seizing the workers’ overtime pay and adding hours to timesheets under the false justification of “reparations”.
UAC legal counsel, Malcolm Ingram, brazenly brags to the DOL that their DEI no-bid staffing vendor, The Hierarchy, does not issue 1099s or W-2s. The DOL ruled that UAC deliberately misclassified the ripped-off worker as a contractor; the DOL ruled that the worker was a UAC FTE.
Carlos Jones and Kevin Satterthwaite knew Latoison had failed to include the laborer’s name on the timesheet invoices. UAC knew Latoison added hours to every timesheet invoice, using government money to pay him for hours that were not worked.
A good faith estimate is that Latoison pocketed $14,130 on timesheets he submitted for hours nobody worked between 11/4/2021 and 4/16/2023 by adding hours to the laborer’s timesheets.
Since 2013, we have reasonably calculated that Latoison swindled $81,155 for hours nobody worked.
UAC allegedly fraudulently classifies timesheet labor to the Department of General Services (DGS) (General Fund) as COTS (Commercial Off-The-Shelf) software. (81110000-ITQ-13-Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS))
UAC knows no payments were made for the mission-critical databases Carlos Jones solicited during his questionable criminal investigation of his best friend, Jacques Latoison, which confirmed the embezzlement. This is felony theft of services.
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The Hierarchy one-man-show has been paid approximately $4M by UAC since 2013. Latoison added hours to nearly every labor timesheet since 2013 to pay himself $90 per hour for labor nobody performed. Outrageous.
Is Urban Affairs Coalition, the Prime Contractor, paying The Hierarchy for its fake Help Desk team from 81110000-ITQ-22-Help Desk & LAN Support?
Kyle Branch tried to figure out what was going on with the Help Desk fraud. He did not know that Jacques Latoison is more powerful than Kevin Satterthwaite, Arun Prabhakaran, and Sharmain Matlock-Turner.
Kyle had to beg for Latoison to submit his invoices almost as much as I had to beg for my paychecks. There was some wild-ass drama surrounding this Dale Porter executive!!! UAC hired Dale, a former CFO from 2003 and also a former CFO at Philadelphia Works in 2021, in January 2023. Shit hit the fan on 5/1/2023 – HR sent out an email that Dale Porter was no longer an employee and to send Thomas Love Dale’s shit. What did Dale do so wrong to be fired? UAC doesn’t remove Jacques the Embezzler, so it must be bad.
Meanwhile, it took Jacques from March until July to submit eight invoices. Jesus Christ.
Prime contractor responsibilities
Kevin Satterthwaite must be held accountable for his failure to protect taxpayer money from a known tax cheat to whom he irresponsibly entrusted unrestricted funds. For ten (10) years, he allowed this con artist to bill for hours that were never worked. When confronted with evidence that Latoison had stolen paychecks, Satterthwaite deflected blame, effectively endorsing the fraudster through his alleged inaction. Furthermore, Satterthwaite allegedly participated in the theft of services by endorsing the decision not to pay for mission-critical databases commissioned by UAC EDP. The Pennsylvania General Services Department has a responsibility to hold UAC accountable for its willful negligence in managing the unrestricted fund. We also need to investigate whether the Pennsylvania Department of Community and Economic Development includes a similar clause in its contract with UAC.
UAC Management acknowledges that Kevin Satterthwaite is aware of the theft and is facilitating the lies.
Kevin Satterthwaite had no paperwork for the employee he personally dealt with, so who was insuring her? A tipster informed us that Kevin allowed a person named Troy to accumulate hours in 2022 without completing the necessary contractor paperwork. Kevin then paid him for those hours as a “1099 vendor.” If The Hierarchy has no employees, Latoison could not have insured someone who does not exist. This negligence will ultimately catch up to UAC. Latoison ignored the paperwork that Kevin required from the programmer. However, since Kevin seems indifferent to people stealing from the General Fund and nobody at the state appears to care about felony grand theft, it is unlikely that he will change his behavior.
An Insight Public Sector, Inc. prior employee has informed us that their physical address for THE HIERARCHY is 401 North Broad Street, Suite 210 (the data center). Latoison entertains his various clients at his office in the data center. Who pays the rent at Latoison’s data center? Is the General Fund paying for Latoison’s other unrelated clients? Is the general fund paying for the server that houses the IEDS server and the EGRM $1M Cares Act PPE swindlers? Click Here
We now have an email from a former UAC employee wronged and defamed by UAC, confirming that Latoison and Lisa, the wife, gave her and some other guests the “grand tour of his operation at Netrality.” Click here
Since “The Hierarchy” is a subcontractor of UAC, it now makes sense why UAC does not care if The Hierarchy is a qualified contractor.
Why does UAC allow its IT vendor to read all emails? This is an incredible security fail paid for by taxpayers. Nobody can report theft when the IT vendor is the criminal.
I have over 1,000 emails from UAC management tracking this and a plethora of other issues since 2/2023. For God’s sake, my missing paycheck should be the least of UAC’s worries.
UAC knew Latoison was in court with the IRS and kept writing him my paychecks when paid from MBE/WBE 653 and the General Fund, when they knew the money was vanishing. Not good at all!
UAC knew The Hierarchy had nobody but me and barely Latoison on the Help Desk that the General Fund pays for. Kyle Branch was supposed to be babysitting Jacques, but Jacques is more powerful than Kyle Branch, Kevin Satterthwaite, Sharmain Turner-Matlock, and Arun Prabhakaran.
I for sure thought Lisa Latoison was chained in a basement or something. 🤣🤣
Is the Board Member Grocery Store a vendor? Is Costars a joke? Aren’t Prime Contractors supposed to check if a subcontractor is in Costars?
General Fund – Lima Consulting May be Involved
*** New Information 4/17/2025 *** Rumor has it that Lima Consulting had signed two agreements with The Hierarchy for services for the migration. I wonder if this is true.*** People are throwing each other under the bus. The tipster gave us the Lima Invoice Numbers and dollar amounts. Now, another person has chimed in that Bettinger signed an agreement back in 2017 on the Comcast data disaster.
hold them accountable
To our knowledge, Kevin Satterthwaite, Sharmain Turner-Matlock, and Arun Prabhakaran have not reported the embezzlement, billing for hours not worked, and self-reported felony theft of services to the state of Pennsylvania or law enforcement.
Research indicates that 46% of embezzlement cases in nonprofits go unreported, as executives often conceal their failure to protect taxpayer dollars.
There is no justification for hiding these crimes from the public or punishing the employee who reported the theft.
The taxpayers must demand that UAC make the victim whole and terminate its relationship with the IT vendor, who boasts about being “untouchable” because his brother is a criminal attorney and his sister is a grant writer for the DoD.
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Is UAC required to run an annual Federal Tax Information (FTI) report on The Hierarchy and Jacques Latoison?
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Taxpayer dollars pay for the Hierarchy, Jacques Latoison’s services.
It looks like #EmbezzlerJacques might have sent the DE criminal investigator a cease-and-desist because Latoison is no longer on the DE Wall of Shame, and the criminal investigator is talking in circles about PII.
The $10M grant money Latoison was probably referencing is the “General Fund” annual slush fund. The PA Department of General Services gives UAC $10M “Cash In Bank” Program each year. UAC uses that money for IT Services expenses, Legal goons to fight wronged employees, legal settlements to pay the wronged employees from all the cases Malcolm Ingram loses, insurance policies, ADP payroll processing, UAC staff augmentation, Sharmain Matlock-Turner’s jitterbug phone bill, etc.
UAC uses the General Fund to pay HiTouch Enterprises. We hope the HiTouch Enterprises $15 an hour armed conceal carry bodyguards aren’t day laborers paid by ODAAT stipends.
Yikes! What does UAC executive Mel Wells have that requires HiTouch Enterprises’ armed bodyguards?
Who is paying the insurance on the concealed weapons?
Is Uber too low-class for UAC nonprofit executives now?
Is this using tax dollars as intended?
Maybe they are paying for the $15 per hour weapon-wielding diabeetus patrol with day laborer stipends.
Those armed bodyguards must eat too many General Fund ShopRight turkeys and
One Day at a Time’s Bangin’ Banana Pudding.
We know Mel Wells is buddies with Latoison; maybe he has my paychecks.
HiTouch does an incredible job planning and throwing the UAC lavish parties and One Day at a Time events. Meanwhile, the UAC nonprofit employees who believe that working for a nonprofit means they are financial doormats get some cold-ass Little Caesars pizza for twenty years of service.
The PA Department of General Services | Bureau of Procurement began investigating the missing paychecks on 5/6/2024. The Bureau requested the PA Supplier IDs for the players allegedly conspiring in this fraud.
It is time to follow up since our tipster gave us the info on what work UAC paid The Hierarchy from the General Fund.
Corey Burnett, for sure, will get a menacing letter from UAC’s EWYK attorney, paid by the General Fund, Malcolm Ingram.
This is UAC’s donation page. Is the UAC General Fund the same as the State General Fund? Why are they collecting donations for the 55th Anniversary breakfast held in 2024? And UAC is collecting MORE money to buy gift cards for high-priced turkeys from the UAC board member’s ShopRight (ShopWrong) stores.
Lisa Latoison does not even use this PA Post Office to mail paychecks. The DE criminal investigator asked for photos of the post office location stamp on the paycheck envelopes, and it was in DE.
The Hierarchy IEDL loan lists its official DE address. We surmise that Malcolm Ingram or Cohen Seglias sent David M. Smith, the DE criminal investigator, a cease to stop posting Latoison of the Wall of Shame, and to not Jacques Latoison’s DE lien.
David M. Smith said Latoison is the worst con man he has ever encountered, and told the ripped-off programmer she, like Delaware, would NEVER be paid.
Did the legal goons send the DE criminal investigator a cease-and-desist, too? Latosion is no longer on the DE Wall of Shame, and the investigator is now talking in circles about PII.
Of course, Latoison has had the IEDL loan information redacted. Maybe the IEDL officials got a cease and desist, too.
Is the General Fund ever monitored or audited?
It looks like it is used to pay Sharmain Turner-Matlock’s cell phone bill.
Sharmain makes $386,000, charges CHOP $600 an hour to snooze through Zoom meetings, and can’t pay her Jitterbug cell phone bill?
The General Fund buys gift cards to ShopRight, a board member’s grocery store chain. The GF also buys gift cards from the board member’s ShopRight for the Thanksgiving Turkey giveaway, and looks like food for the homeless shelters.
The internet refers to ShopRight as ShopWrong, its prices are so high.
Wouldn’t Wal-Mart sell turkeys and food for less money?
The General Fund pays UACs’ legal goons who argue that stealing money is not “embezzlement” and reporting grand theft by their vendor to the overseer of the “General Fund” is neither legally nor ethically required.
What does the Bradley and Bradley Associates Crime, Fiduciary, and D&O policies, also paid by the General Fund, cover if not this?