Guide Note

Wanda Wilson, a former administrative assistant at Georgia Tech's School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, was charged with two counts of theft after buying a laptop with state funds and using it for storing pornography.

Fast Facts

1. Purchased web cam, headset and computer with state funds
2. Occupation: Administrative Assistant
3. Bought computer in February 2007
4. Fired from Georgia Tech in September of 2007
5. Pornographic images, chats and text found on computer
6. Appealed to keep job, but lost
7. Charged in March with two counts of theft by taking

In September of 2007 school officials found detailed chat transcripts and emails proving she had been using the computer for a profit-making gambling operation.

At the time, Wilson was not charged, but was fired from her job due to the fact that she violated the school's policy by conducting outside business while working for the university.

Wilson purchased a laptop from Walmart in 2007 and charged it on a state issued card. When asked about it by investigators, she told them she inadvertently stored it home. Evidence showed that it was in fact in operation at the time it was allegedly in storage.

In March of 2008, after an in-depth investigation, Wilson was charged with stealing a laptop, web-cam and headset. All the items were charged on the schools account. In addition, it was revealed that Wilson used her school office computer to schedule sexual encounters in her own office.

• "I did not loose my job over miss-handled funded or stealing from the job, but because of the past lifestyle that I chosen .... The laptop was not used on Georgia Tech network to send and receive those pictures, which was done in the privacy of my home, on my home internet and they were stored on a personal flash drive." -Wanda Wilson

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