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.
"Taub explicitly and persuasively places the breakdown of
enforcement and accountability in the context of money and class .
. . Donald Trump is not the ostensible subject of “Big Dirty
Money,” Jennifer Taub’s polemic against America’s failure to curb
the destructive criminal tendencies of the very rich. Yet the
president, his friends and former Trump campaign and administration
officials parade through these pages."—The New York Times
"A crisp, engaging account of the many ways that corruption is
thriving in the private sector and governments at every level…Taub
writes the law like the professor she is (though she is a much
better writer than most lawyers)…You can’t read these books without
realizing that we are living in an awful time of lax ethical and
legal standards.”—The Washington Post
“Blood-boiling…with quippy analysis…Taub proposes straightforward
fixes and ways everyday people can get involved in taking
white-collar criminals to task. This book raises the stakes even
higher for November and is an exigent read for creating a more just
society.”—San Francisco Chronicle
“Anyone arguing that white-collar crime is victimless will have to
reckon with this new examination by Taub.”—Bloomberg
"A powerful polemic about the dangers of elite impunity. “Elite
crime pays. It pays very well,” she warns. The result? An “elite
crime spree” that dangerously erodes trust in
democracy."—Promarket
“Authoritative, highly accessible, and damning… a smart overview of
white collar crime… A timely, eye-opening tale of elite white
privilege run amok.”—New York Journal of Books
"Be prepared to blow your top. It’s likely that you’ll be familiar
with most, if not all, of the crimes that Taub details, but having
them all in one place is like eating a plate full of habaneros:
you’ll get red-faced, bug-eyed, sputtering and pretty righteously
hot under the collar."—The Bookworm Sez
"A scathing indictment of white-collar crime and its unpunished
practitioners . . . In this steely-eyed examination of these
brazen criminals, Taub holds that this lack of effective punishment
merely encourages the wealthy to prey on the rest of society . .
. A significant manifesto for judicial reform that aims at
cracking the cabal of big-money grifters at the top."—Kirkus
Reviews (*starred review*)
“The United States is drowning in dirty money; we’ve constructed a
two-tiered system of justice, of corruption and campaign finance;
of bailouts and bankruptcies. Jennifer Taub ably and cogently
strips bare the racism and regulatory failures that have made
America’s wealthiest predators too big to fail and too spectacular
to jail. Anyone worried about how these failures shape politics,
elections, journalism, and justice should take notice.” —Dahlia
Lithwick, senior legal editor, Slate
“In the corporate and political worlds, Taub finds a rampant crime
wave, touching more than our financial markets and the halls of
Congress. It intrudes into our daily lives, threatening our health,
food, environment, and well-being. Sweeping and comprehensive, her
work culminates in a groundbreaking series of imaginative solutions
to refocus our efforts on combatting elite crime to help American
society recover.” —Jesse Eisinger, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of
The Chickenshit Club
“A stimulating and provocative book that challenges the current
administration on its handling of white collar crimes. It sets the
stage for change.” —Ellen Podgor, Gary R. Trombley Family
White-Collar Crime Research Professor at Stetson University College
of Law
“Donald Trump’s time as president has revealed a ruling class that
appears untouchable as in authoritarian regimes. But well before
that, Trump was used to escaping accountability like other
corporate insiders. Jennifer Taub details how this cycle of
rewarding bad behavior has consolidated power in the hands of few
and hurt our country.” —Amy Siskind, president, The New Agenda
“It’s no accident that African-American citizens can be brutalized
or even killed for minor alleged infractions, while corporate
wrongdoers escape prosecution or punishment. When we see street
corner drug dealers denied bail but crooked pharmaceutical
conglomerates payout dividends, we are seeing the justice system
work as intended. Taub explains how the rot goes right to the heart
of our legal and regulatory systems themselves.” —Elie Mystal,
justice correspondent for The Nation
“Taub shines light on fraud, tax evasion and corruption, where
wrongdoings can be hard to detect and the bar for creating
accountability is too high. She issues a passionate call to action
and outlines sensible reforms, at least some of which should
resonate broadly and across our political divides.” —Anat Admati,
George G.C. Parker Professor of Finance and Economics at Stanford
University Graduate School of Business and co-author of The
Bankers’ New Clothes: What’s Wrong with Banking and What to Do
About It
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