DR. JAMES CROCKETT, FORMER PROFESSOR OF ACCOUNTING, FORMER DIRECTOR SCHOOL OF ACCOUNTING
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(August 4, 2006) Special Report Some of James Crockett's Parting Gifts An Investigative Series on the use of Tax Dollars "This "Special Report" examines what appears to have been a "Gold Watch Sabbatical" awarded to Jim Crockett at the end of his academic career at USM. We also examine some of the details of a Conference trip to Oxford funded by the CoB in late April of 2005…".
(September 5, 2006) The Mississippi Society of Certified Public Accountants Outstanding Accounting Educator Award - An Outstanding Award? "According to a USM Marketing and Public Relations release dated January 20, 2005 James Crockett was named the 2005 recipient of the Mississippi Society of Certified Public Accountants (MS SCPA) Outstanding Accounting Educator Award...".
(October 16, 2006) 31st & Pearl Crockett is Back? "Stories are now spreading around the CoB suggesting that former SAIS Director James Crockett has been hired by the CoB as a consultant. To that you ask: For what? To write the AACSB reaffirmation report for the School of Accountancy and Information Systems. It seems that Roderick Posey, the most recent SAIS Director to give up the position, couldn't get the job done. What about the $117,000 salary Posey has been earning the past few years as SAIS Director? What about the $5,000 in AACSB-]related travel Posey has engaged in over the past 18 months? Just what was Posey doing while Director of SAIS?...".
(February 12, 2007) Nostalgia Series: Jim Not long ago, a former faculty member from a dozen years ago or so asked me who was who administratively in charge of the CoB now; as I ticked them off, he laughed and observed that those are pretty much who was in charge way back when. No wonder we are in the shape we are in now. Those that helped facilitate the decline and collapse of Ty Black and Bill Gunther, are now lustily doing the same to and for Harold Doty. What is the old definition of insanity? Doing the same thing over and over and expecting the results to change. This “Nostalgia Series” begins with Jim Crockett.
(February 15, 2007) “Eyes Wide Shut”: Crockett’s 2005 Speech on AACSB In February of 2005, one of the CoB’s faculty senators, accounting professor James Crockett, stood up in the faculty senate and delivered the following speech:
(February 16, 2007) Is James Crockett Becoming Part of the Story? Reporters at USMPRIDE.COM have put together a report examining the court decisions that came out of “Operation Pretense,” the codename for the FBI’s 1980s operation to expose county corruption (e.g., kickbacks, busted invoices, etc.) in Mississippi. In Table 1 below, you will find the names of the 38 Mississippi county officials who were ordered to pay restitutions -- with amounts ranging from $66 to $15,100 -- as a result of the FBI's sting operation (James Crockett, Operation Pretense, 2003).