DR. JAMES CROCKETT, FORMER PROFESSOR OF ACCOUNTING,
FORMER DIRECTOR SCHOOL OF ACCOUNTING
(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 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).