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100 1  Taub, Jennifer,|eauthor. 
245 10 Big dirty money :|bthe shocking injustice and unseen cost 
       of white collar crime /|cJennifer Taub. 
264  1 [New York] :|bViking,|c[2020] 
300    xxxvi, 298 pages ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-283) and 
       index. 
505 00 |tDefining white collar crime --|tHarm beyond measure --
       |tCorporate crime waves and crackdowns --|tVictims in the 
       shadows --|tMutually assured immunity for the upper class 
       --|tForgiveness for the fortunate --|tWhistleblowers and 
       journalists --|tA contagion of public corruption --
       |tSuspicious minds --|tTax and punish --|tThe six fixes. 
520    "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"--|cProvided by publisher. 
650  0 White collar crimes|zUnited States. 
650  0 Commercial crimes|zUnited States.