{"id":4667,"date":"2013-12-12T13:33:24","date_gmt":"2013-12-12T18:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/dev-mag\/?p=1308"},"modified":"2016-02-02T12:00:56","modified_gmt":"2016-02-02T17:00:56","slug":"remarkable-studies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww2.georgiasouthern.edu\/news\/magazine\/2013\/12\/12\/remarkable-studies\/","title":{"rendered":"Remarkable Studies"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Williamson\"\u201cThere is always a risk that officers may collect evidence that is not in the search warrant. For instance, what happens if an officer enters an office to search for documents like bank ledgers, opens a drawer and finds a bag of marijuana, but that is not in the search warrant? That is contraband and no one has a legal right to have contraband so it can be seized. However, if it\u2019s a gun, we don\u2019t know if the suspect has a legal permit to own it so it can\u2019t be seized because it\u2019s not listed in the search warrant.\u201d \u2013 J. Charles Williamson<\/em><\/p>\n

The legal studies class \u201cWhite-Collar Crime\u201d is required of all fraud examination minors, an interdisciplinary minor in the College of Business Administration. Williamson
\nhas three decades of experience investigating tax fraud, embezzlement, bribery, money laundering and public corruption cases. Prior to joining the Georgia Southern faculty in 2011, he was Special Agent in Charge of the Tax Fraud Investigations Division of the State of New Mexico and taught a tax course as an adjunct faculty member at the University of New Mexico.<\/p>\n

Williamson began considering teaching full time and, as he neared retirement, said, \u201cAn opportunity came up at Georgia Southern to join the faculty teaching in the forensic accounting \/fraud examination area as well as teaching tax.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n

Notable Case<\/strong><\/p>\n

While a special agent in charge of the Tax Fraud Investigations Division of the State of New Mexico, Williamson recalls:<\/p>\n

\u201cI was involved in a case in Albuquerque that has been on \u2018Dateline NBC\u2019 and several other news magazine shows. It involved Ellen Snyder, who killed her husband, Mike Snyder, in January 2002. I became involved when we discovered that state tax returns had been filed in the name of Mike Snyder several years after Ellen had claimed that he was \u2018missing\u2019. The refunds claimed on the returns were deposited in Ellen’s bank accounts. After years of her insistence that he was alive, Ellen finally admitted (in 2010) shooting Mike in the back three times and burying him in the backyard.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A Look at White-Collar Crime<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4657,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[42],"class_list":["post-4667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-fall-2013"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t