"Blood-boiling...with quippy analysis...
Taub proposes straightforward fixes and ways everyday people can get involved in taking white-Collar Criminals to task."-- San Francisco Chronicle How ordinary Americans suffer when the rich and powerful use tax dodges or break the law to get richer and more powerful--and how we can stop it.
She is a graduate of Yale College and Harvard Law School..
Nichols Visiting Professor of Law in fall 2019 at Harvard Law School and is a professor of law at the Western New England University School of Law.
Taub was the Bruce W.
She has testified as a banking law expert before Congress and has appeared on MSNBC\'s Morning Joe and CNN\'s Newsroom.
About author(s): Jennifer Taub is a legal scholar and advocate whose writing focuses on follow the money matters--promoting transparency and opposing corruption.
Taub goes beyond the headlines (of which there is no shortage) to track how we got here (essentially a post-Enron failure of prosecutorial muscle, the growth of too big to jail syndrome, and a developing implicit immunity of the upper class) and pose solutions that can help catch and convict offenders.
Profiteers caused the mortgage meltdown and the prescription opioid crisis, they\'ve evaded taxes and deprived communities of public funds for education, public health, and infrastructure.
Big Dirty Money details the scandalously common and concrete ways that ordinary Americans suffer when the well-heeled use White Collar crime to gain and sustain wealth, social status, and political influence.
This is not victimless crime.
When CEO John Stumpf resigned in shame, the board of directors granted him a $134 million golden parachute.
Pressured by management, employees at the bank opened more than three million bank and credit card accounts without customer consent, and charged late fees and penalties to account holders.
Consider Wells Fargo & Co.
Operate the scam from the executive suite of a giant corporation, and you can prosper with impunity.
When caught and convicted, such as for bribing their kids\' way into college, high-class Criminals make brief stops in minimum security Club Fed camps.
But if you\'re rich and commit mail, wire, or bank fraud, embezzle pension funds, lie in court, obstruct justice, bribe a public official, launder money, or cheat on your taxes, you\'re likely to get off scot-free (or even win an election).
Selling loose cigarettes on a city sidewalk can lead to a choke-hold arrest, and death, if you are not among the top 1%.
There is an elite crime spree happening in America, and the privileged perps are getting away with it. "Blood-boiling...with quippy analysis...
Taub proposes straightforward fixes and ways everyday people can get involved in taking white-Collar Criminals to task."-- San Francisco Chronicle How ordinary Americans suffer when the rich and powerful use tax dodges or break the law to get richer and more powerful--and how we can stop it
