BIG DIRTY MONEY The Shocking Injustice and Unseen Cost of White Collar Crime by Jennifer Taub

White collar crime is running rampant in the United States, and it’s costing Americans an untold amount of money. White collar crimes like fraud and embezzlement rob victims anywhere from $300 billion to $800 billion annually, while street level crimes like burglary and theft cost about $16 billion a year, according to the FBI. But despite this eye-opening statistic, the true extent of white collar crime is largely unknown: the federal government doesn’t have a database of these criminals, a method of tracking the rates of these types of crime, or even annual statistics. In BIG DIRTY MONEY: The Shocking Injustice and Unseen Cost of White Collar Crime (Viking) legal scholar Jennifer Taub takes a deep dive into white collar crime, its history, and reveals why these offenders seem to get off scot-free now more than ever, at great cost to the general public. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Jennifer Taub 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 Morning Joe and CNN’s Newsroom. Taub was the Bruce W. Nichols Visiting Professor of Law in fall 2019 at Harvard Law School and is now a professor of law at the Western New England University School of Law. A former associate general counsel at Fidelity Investments, she is a graduate of Yale College and Harvard Law School.