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In 1982, DOJ attempted to count the total number of federal crimes. The WSJ said 'Since then, no one has tried anything nearly as extensive.' Until @CrimeADay.
Aug 8, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Excuse me. That's pasteurized process CHEESE FOOD to you, and 21 USC §333 & 21 CFR §133.173(a)(1) make it a federal crime to sell it unless it's made in a homogeneous plastic mass. To suggest we Americans don't have "proper" cheese is an outrage. Under §133.173(a)(6), we are willing to send people to prison if they sell blue, nuworld, roquefort, gorgonzola, or limburger cheese food if those fancy cheeses make up less than 10% of the weight. See? Standards.
Jun 3, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
These examples sure feel familiar. wait a minute...
Jun 6, 2020 • 12 tweets • 4 min read
It's now been one year since the release of my book, How to Become a Federal Criminal: An Illustrated Handbook for the Aspiring Offender.

So I wanted to take a minute to thank you all for some of the highlights over this past year.

amazon.com/How-Become-Fed… There was, of course, that time the @nytimes ran this wonderful book review, in which the book was called "an excellent book for people who like to start sentences with 'Did you know that …'"

nytimes.com/2019/05/23/boo…
Jun 3, 2020 • 8 tweets • 1 min read
This Twitter feed shouldn’t exist. This feed posts one federal criminal provision every day and has since July 2014. That’s almost six years of crimes: more than 2,000 ways to become a federal criminal in America.
Aug 26, 2019 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
The federal government actually has a history of trying to change the weather by blowing stuff up in the sky.

On February 27, 1891, Robert Dyrenforth was appointed "Special Agent of the Department of Agriculture for Making Experiments in the Production of Rainfall." That was only after a Confederate general had already patented exploding balloons as a means for making it rain.
May 16, 2019 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
In 1873, Congress passed the Comstock Act, which made it a federal crime to import or transport in interstate commerce virtually any information about contraception or abortion. The Supreme Court’s decisions in Griswold v. Connecticut and Roe v. Wade effectively rendered the criminal prohibitions on distributing information about abortion and contraception a nullity, though those provisions were never repealed.