David Cay Johnston:  

Professor, Rochester Institute of Technology 2024-, teaching courses in criminal justice, law, public policy, and journalism after leaving the faculty at Syracuse University School of Law, where I taught from 2009-24. A 2001 Pulitzer Prize for exposing, in The New York Times, unfairness in the tax code. I was a Pulitzer finalist in 2000 and a double finalist in 2003. I also received the George Polk Award in 1982 for exposing LAPD political spying and the IRE Medal for Investigative Book of the Year in 2004 for my second book, Perfectly Legal. In January 2017, I co-founded DCReport.org, a nonprofit reader-supported news service that covers what the President and Congress do instead of what politicians say. I stepped back as publisher at the end of 2023 but continue as a contributor. I've followed Trump since 1988, longer than any other living journalist. In 1988, I wrote about him becoming president someday, the first journalist to do so. I've written seven books (four NY Times bestsellers) and edited an anthology. My seventh book, The Big Cheat, about Trump's profiteering while in office, was published by Simon and Schuster in 2021. I have numerous chapters in American and British books, including the latest college economics textbook edited by the distinguished economist John Komlos. Next up: to be followed by my plan for a 21st-century tax system. My 2018 book, It's Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America, debuted at #2 on the NYT list. Its prequel, The Making of Donald Trump, also a #2, is available in 11 languages and was named Political Biography of the Year (2016) in Britain. In 2008, I left daily newspapers after 40 years of reporting for the San Jose Mercury, Detroit Free Press, Los Angeles Times, Philadelphia Inquirer, and The New York Times. I became a columnist for Tax Notes and later Reuters, Al Jazeera America, The Daily Beast, and Investopedia before starting DCReport.org. From 2009 to 2016, I taught the property, tax, and regulatory law of the ancient world at Syracuse University College of Law and Whitman School of Management. In 2019, I resumed teaching, this time with a pre-law course on the principles and theory of law. I taught journalism at the University of Southern California 1981-88 and magazine writing at UCLA Extension 1986-87. Students rated my fall 1987 USC course the #1 value for the tuition in the entire undergraduate College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences. You will see me on TV, especially on MSNBC and CNN. I also appear as a guest on many overseas TV and radio programs. I've lectured on six continents about Trump, taxes, regulation, journalism techniques, law, accounting, and ethics. In 2012-14, I was the board president of Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE). I have also been board president of the nonprofit Investigative Post in Buffalo, a trustee of Geva Theatre Center, and of Visual Studies Workshop, a SUNY graduate school of fine arts. Books: THE BIG CHEAT: How Donald Trump Fleeced America and Enriched Himself and His Family IT'S EVEN WORSE THAN YOU THINK: What the Trump Administration Is Doing to America, 2018. THE MAKING OF DONALD TRUMP. 2016. DIVIDED: The Perils of Our Growing Inequality. Editor, 2014. THE FINE PRINT on monopolies and restraint of trade in 2012 completed my trilogy on the American economy. FREE LUNCH, about hidden subsidies and how "deregulation" has enriched a lucky few, became an immediate bestseller in January 2008. PERFECTLY LEGAL, my book on how the tax system forces the middle class to subsidize the super-rich, became an immediate bestseller in January 2004. TEMPLES of CHANCE, 1992 casino industry expose. I have many other awards for everything from finding and confronting a vicious murderer who a detective failed to catch, winning freedom for an innocent man. I've solved three murder cases, the first the Ohta family killings when I was 21 years old, a story told in the San Jose Mercury online in October 2021. My work has sent more than a dozen tax cheats to prison, some getting such long sentences that they died behind bars. My 1973-76 exposes of an extraordinarily profitable TV and radio chain's news manipulations forced the owners to shut down after fire sales of those stations, a unique accomplishment in American history. I also exposed foreign agents, spies, and the misuse of charitable funds. I changed the way journalists report executive compensation, pension finances, and cover nonprofits. Congress valued just two tax dodges my reporting exposed and stopped at $256 billion over the first ten years. By now, it would be a trillion-plus dollars. Reporting Career: The New York Times, 1995-2008; Philadelphia Inquirer, 1988-95 (16 months as SUNDAY business editor); Los Angeles Times 1976-88; Detroit Free Press 1973-76; San Jose Mercury News 1968...Expand for more