About The Instructor
Clinical ProfessorUniversity of South Florida
Kerry Myers teaches graduate classes on forensic accounting, which includes the topics of white collar crime, fraud, money laundering, and financial investigation, at USF's Lynn Pippenger School of Accountancy in the Muma College of Business. He is also part of the Florida Center for Cybersecurity.
Professor Myers teaches forensic accounting and law at USF's School of Accountancy in the Muma College of Business. He is a Certified Fraud Examiner and was a trial attorney and prosecutor for almost a decade before joining the FBI.
Prior to joining the faculty at the University of South Florida, Professor Myers worked 25 years as an attorney/accountant with the FBI. He was an original member of the Tampa Bay Bank Fraud Task Force and the Tampa Joint Terrorism Task Force. He investigated major terrorism financing/money laundering cases involving fund transfers from Florida to terrorist groups committing violent acts in the Middle East.
As a FBI bomb technician, he worked the Oklahoma City Bombing, Centennial Park Bombing and the TWA Flight 800 crash. He testified against Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols during their respective trials. His FBI terrorism financing/bombing investigations took him to Israel, Jordon, Lebanon, Qatar, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Thailand and Greece. He was assigned to work the Combined Explosives Exploitation Cell (CEXC), CENTCOM, in Afghanistan in 2006. He earned a Director's Award for leading a national terrorism undercover operation that prevented a terrorist act in the US.
Teaching:
•ACG 6688 Forensic Accounting and Legal Issues
•BUL 3320 Law and the Business Environment
•BUL 5842 Risk Management and Legal Compliance
Research:
•Myers, K. and Andrews, C. (March 2016), A Practitioner's Guide to the Florida Cyber Breach Notification Statute, Florida CPA Today
•Myers, K., (1979). Crown v. Commissioner: A New Perspective on Income, Gift and Estate Tax Avoidance, 48 UMKC L. Rev. 84.