David Cay Johnston

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David Cay Johnston

David Cay Boyle Johnston (born December 24, 1948 in San Francisco ) is an investigative journalist and writer on business topics. He has worked for the Los Angeles Times and the New York Times , among others . As a journalist, he exposed, among other things, a spy scandal at the Los Angeles Police Department . In 2001 he received the Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting for the disclosure of hidden tax loopholes and tax inequalities in the USA .

Life stations

In 1968 Johnston began his career as a journalist for the San Jose Mercury News . In 1973 he joined the Detroit Free Press as an investigative reporter and from 1976 to 1988 he worked for the Los Angeles Times . From 1988 to 1995 Johnston worked for The Philadelphia Inquirer ; in February 1995 he moved to The New York Times . Since April 2008 he has worked as a freelance writer for various newspapers and radio programs.

Johnson became a journalist at an early age and attended several high-class courses at various universities as a part-time job. He became a renowned tax expert. From 2009 to 2014 he was a Distinguished Visiting Lecturer who taught tax, property, and regulatory law of the ancient world at the Syracuse University College of Law and the Whitman School of Management. Since 2008 he has had a column at Tax Analysts , a non-profit organization that provides information on taxes and tax policy worldwide.

Reports and non-fiction books

In 2000 and 2003, Johnston was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for his reports. In 2001, he received the Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting for revealing hidden tax loopholes and control inequities . His revelations brought down several tax evasion methods.

Other well-known reports by Johnston include the disclosure of a spy scandal at the Los Angeles Police Department and the disclosure that the energy company Enron did not pay taxes. He also exposed the misuse of donations by the United Way of America charity and uncovered a perpetrator in a murder case in Los Angeles, as a result of which a previously wrongly accused was acquitted.

Johnston criticized the government's original $ 700 billion bailout for financial institutions ("TARP") against the financial crisis . In 2008, he also criticized the coverage of TARP by many US media.

Johnston has written several non-fiction books. In his first book, Temples of Chance: How America Inc. Bought Out Murder Inc. to Win Control of the Casino Business, from the 1980s, he analyzed how some scrap bond- funded companies took control of casino businesses and discussed the existing ones Corruption in the casino business. Other books dealt with the subjects of lobbying with authorities, state aid to companies and tax policy. In 2004 he received the Investigative Reporters and Editors Award for the Book of the Year 2003 for Perfectly Legal (published in late 2003) . In August 2016, a book about the presidential candidate Donald Trump was published . After Trump was elected US president , Johnston said Trump was a swindler and unqualified, acted irrationally, spent his life with criminals and would spark a constitutional crisis. A year after this election, he said it was "worse than feared". "Trump has proven to be completely unpredictable because he had absolutely no political experience and still does not understand how the United States is constitutionally governed." “He thinks the Congress and the courts are subordinate to him. He surrounds himself with followers who want to put the ax to the US political system . "

Fonts (selection)

  • Temples of Chance. How America Inc. Bought Out Murder Inc. to Win Control of the Casino Business . Doubleday Publisher, New York 1992, ISBN 978-0-385-41920-8 .
  • Perfectly Legal. The Covert Campaign to Rig Our Tax System to Benefit the Super-Rich and Cheat Everybody Else . Portfolio, New York 2003, ISBN 1-59184-019-8 .
  • Free lunch. How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense and Stick You With The Bill . Portofolio, New York 2007, ISBN 978-1-59184-191-3 .
  • The Fine Print. How Big Companies Use Plain English to Rob You Blind . Portfoio / Penguin Group, New York 2012, ISBN 978-1-591-84358-0 .
  • Divided. The Perils of Our Growing Inequality . The New Press / Perseus Books Group, New York 2014, ISBN 978-1-59558-923-1 .
  • The Making of Donald Trump . Melville House Publishing, Brooklyn 2016, ISBN 978-1-61219-632-9 .
    • German translation by Regina Berger, Robert Poth and Annemarie Pumpernig: The Trump Files . Ecowin Verlag, Salzburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-7110-0115-3 .
  • It's Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America . Simon & Schuster 2018, ISBN 978-1501174162 .
    • Trump in office . Translation: Regina Berger, Robert Poth, Annemarie Pumpernig. Ecowin, Elsbethen 2018

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ David Cay Johnston, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Reporter, Begins Regular Column for Tax Analysts (June 23, 2008)
  2. ^ Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting
  3. ^ 9 Things The Rich Don't Want You To Know About Taxes , Willamette Week , April 13, 2011
  4. ↑ Portrait of the author of the book "Perfectly Legal" ( Memento from April 2, 2004 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ^ Glenn Greenwald Salon Radio interview of David Cay Johnston, Salon , October 1, 2008
  6. ↑ IRE Press Releases ( Memento January 29, 2008 in the Internet Archive ), March 31, 2004
  7. ^ The Making of Donald Trump , ISBN 978-1612196329
  8. ↑ n-tv.de
  9. ↑ Trump biographer fears division in society
  10. ↑ Frauke Steffens: How Donald Trump wants to destroy the American political system , FAZ.net
personal data
SURNAME Johnston, David Cay
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Johnston, David Cay Boyle
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American journalist and author
DATE OF BIRTH December 24, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH San Francisco