“If you have heard about companies using a Bermuda mailbox to escape American taxes or that the IRS audits the poor more than the rich or that Enron paid no taxes or that executives have amassed massive untaxed fortunes or that the retired chief of General Electric had a free corporate jet, then you have already had a taste for some of the more shocking stories that I have come across. ...This is not just about facts, figures and statistics.”

American investigative journalist and author

David Cay Boyle Johnston is an American investigative journalist and author, known for his reporting on economics and tax issues. He won the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting. His work centers on the details of how money and tax policy shape public life, and he has built a reputation for careful reporting in those fields. Johnston is also an author, extending that focus beyond journalism into books and longer-form commentary.