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…
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