By James R. Crockett
During the Eighties fifty-seven of Mississippi's 410 county supervisors from twenty-six of the state's eighty-two counties have been charged with corruption. The FBI's ploy to capture the criminals used to be code-named Operation Pretense.
creative undercover research uncovered the supervisors' wide-scaled subterfuge in buying items and companies. simply because supervisors themselves managed and monitored the procuring procedure, they can offer sham documentation and spurious invoices. Operation Pretense used to be devised based on the criticism of a disgruntled corporation proprietor, a Pentecostal preacher who balked at including a required 10 percentage kickback to his bid.
Detailing the elaborate tale, this booklet provides an account of the FBI's stratagem of making a decoy corporation that ingratiated itself during the supervisors' fiefdoms and taken a couple of jolting exposé, sweeping repercussions, and a campaign for reform.
The case was once so outstanding that CBS's Mike Wallace got here to Mississippi to solid the Sixty Minutes highlight in this astounding sting and at the humiliated public servants it uncovered to public disgrace.
The stipulations that gave upward push to such pervasive malfeasance, the main avid gamers on either side, the mortifying indictments, and the rush to complete the freshen up are all mentioned right here.
within the wake of Operation Pretense have been ruined careers, a spirit of watchdog reform, and an overhauled procuring method bared to public sunshine. besides the fact that, this cautioning publication finds a method that is still faraway from excellent.
This narrative document at the biggest public corruption scandal in Mississippi background serves as a reminder of the stipulations that let such crime to flourish.
James R. Crockett is a professor of accountancy on the college of Southern Mississippi. His paintings has been released in Journal of Accounting Education, Accounting Educator's Journal, and Journal of schooling for Business, between others.
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