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 a professor of law at the Western New England University School of Law. She is a graduate of Yale College and Harvard Law School.

This book details the scandalously common and concrete ways that ordinary Americans suffer when the rich and powerful use white collar crime to gain and sustain wealth, social status, and political influence. Additionally, this book goes beyond the headlines to track how we got here, and poses solutions that can help catch and convict offenders.

FANTASTIC PUBLICITY FOR HARDCOVER: The HC received great reviews in the NYT Book Review, San Francisco Chronicle, and New Republic, with a review also expected from the Washington Post. The book was included in roundups from Fortune and Bloomberg News. Taub wrote op-eds for The Atlantic, Washington Post, and Newsweek, and had interviews on Sirius XM, Woke AF, the Nicole Sandler Show, and more.PUBLIC PROFILE: Taub has over 110,000 Twitter followers, including Frank Rich and Rachel Maddow, and has been a frequent guest on Morning Joe.AUTHOR EXPERT: Like MacLean and Giridharadas, Taub is a serious thinker and academic who's also an eager provocateur and public commentator.IN THE NEWS: This is not just a problem of law enforcement, it is also a political and social justice issue. Taub advocates enforcement, but also increase in the marginal income tax rate for the highest earners and other luxury taxes.

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.

There 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 & 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.

This is not victimless crime. 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. 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.