{"product_id":"big-dirty-money-making-white-collar-criminals-pay-9781984879998","title":"Big Dirty Money: Making White Collar Criminals Pay","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"Blood-boiling...with quippy analysis...Taub proposes straightforward fixes and ways everyday people can get involved in taking white-collar criminals to task.\"--\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHow 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThere is an elite crime spree happening in America, and the privileged perps are getting away with it. Selling loose cigarettes on a city sidewalk can lead to a choke-hold arrest, and death, if you are not among the top 1%. 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). 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. Operate the scam from the executive suite of a giant corporation, and you can prosper with impunity. Consider Wells Fargo \u0026amp; Co. 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. When CEO John Stumpf resigned in \"shame,\" the board of directors granted him a $134 million golden parachute. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis is not victimless crime. \u003ci\u003eBig Dirty Money\u003c\/i\u003e 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. 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. 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eJennifer Taub\u003c\/b\u003e is a legal scholar and advocate whose writing focuses on \"follow the money\" matters--promoting transparency and opposing corruption. She has testified as a banking law expert before Congress and has appeared on MSNBC's \u003ci\u003eMorning Joe\u003c\/i\u003e and CNN's \u003ci\u003eNewsroom.\u003c\/i\u003e Taub was the Bruce W. 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. She is a graduate of Yale College and Harvard Law School.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51806093017362,"sku":"9781984879998","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_965d8aa7-c327-430e-bbb6-76c036289c1a.jpg?v=1765975415","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/big-dirty-money-making-white-collar-criminals-pay-9781984879998","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}