GEORGE C. CARTER, FORMER CHAIRMAN, FORMER DEPARTMENT
OF ECONOMICS, FINANCE AND INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS
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(March 16, 2007) Oops! . . . He’s Doing it Again EFIB Chairman George Carter to Offer Preferential Summer
Salaries Again in 2007 About eight months ago, usmnews.net broke the story of preferential summer salaries (2006)
in the CoB. The primary beneficiaries of these summer 2006 teaching deals were economics professors Edward
Nissan, who taught 2 courses for full-time summer pay, and Charles Sawyer, who taught 1 course for half-time
summer pay. These and other teaching deals that were concocted during the summer of 2006 are described in more
detail
(March 20, 2007) Special Report More Details on Carter’s Private Sector Shingle An Investigative Series on the Use
of the CoB for Personal Gain Sources have provided usmnews.net with another batch of information related to EFIB
Chairman George Carter’s use of USM facilities for work in his private sector consulting firm. Tips from sources led
usmnews.net reporters to the temporary website for the private sector company Forensic Economics Corporation. As
the screen insert below states, FEC is a New Orleans-based company that has been temporarily relocated to Baton
Rouge due to the lingering effects of Hurricane Katrina.
(March 26, 2007) Special Report More Details on Carter’s Private Sector Shingle An Investigative Series on the Use
of the CoB for Personal Gain Sources have provided usmnews.net with another batch of information related to EFIB
Chairman George Carter’s use of USM facilities for work in his private sector consulting firm. Tips from sources led
usmnews.net reporters to the temporary website for the private sector company Forensic Economics Corporation. As
the screen insert below states, FEC is a New Orleans-based company that has been temporarily relocated to Baton
Rouge due to the lingering effects of Hurricane Katrina.
(March 26, 2007) A Variation on an Old Trick There is an old trick that says a person is holding two coins. The two
coins total 55 cents. One coin is not a half-dollar coin. What are the coins? The answer, of course, is a half-dollar and
a nickel. One coin is not a half-dollar: the other coin is. It is a simple, classic, misdirection ploy.
(March 26, 2007) When Carter was Green over Green George Carter and Trellis Green have each been around
USM’s business school for many years. Both were students here (at the undergraduate and master’s level; Carter
preceded Green), and both are now on the faculty in the EFIB (Carter was hired before Green). That’s generally
where the parallels between these two end. While studying at USM Green was amstar student. Carter was not.
When Green returned from doctoral studies to USM as a faculty member, his research had achieved a measure of
fame and he soon thereafter published in a top-flight academic journal. Carter returned from doctoral studies to
USM with little fanfare, and he spent many years thereafter without producing any notable scholarship.