A Crime a Day

@CrimeADay

In 1982, the DOJ attempted to count the total number of federal crimes. The WSJ said 'Since then, no one has tried anything nearly as extensive.' Until...

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    Jun 5

    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.

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  2. 18 hours ago

    The House voted to decriminalize one thing today. So if the bill becomes law, I’ll be taking a day off.

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  3. 21 hours ago

    46 USC §70036(b) & 33 CFR §110.155(l)(12) make it a federal crime for a boat that's in the Port of New York and being told to move not to get moving promptly or signal for a tug.

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  4. Dec 3

    21 USC §352(f), §333 & 21 CFR §884.5370(b)(4)(i)(B) make it a federal crime to distribute pregnancy prevention software without warning people that they need to use another form of contraception, or not have sex, when the app says so.

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  5. Dec 3

    Well, I love that.

    I follow and share each day's crime during dinner. It often generates an interesting conversation that veers away from the usual topics. There are a lot of very particular rules in the federal code you'd never imagine (many seem to be responses to something...weird).
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  6. Dec 2

    21 USC §§331, 333 & 21 CFR §164.150(d) make it a federal crime to sell peanut butter made from unblanched peanuts, including the skins and germ, without prominently and conspicuously disclosing that fact on the label.

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  7. Dec 1

    18 USC §201(b)(1)(A) makes it a federal crime to corruptly give something of value to a public official, directly or indirectly, in order to influence an official act.

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  8. Nov 30

    18 USC §2276 makes it a federal crime to maliciously cut a boat's buoy rope on the high seas.

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  9. Nov 29

    18 USC §490 makes it a federal crime to sell a fake penny or nickel.

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  10. Nov 28

    49 USC §5124(a) & 46 CFR §148.265(b) make it a federal crime to transport a bulk load of overly fatty fish scrap on a cargo ship.

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  11. Nov 28

    Call me when the Lacey Act is trending.

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  12. Nov 27

    18 USC §1865 & 36 CFR §13.916(a) make it a federal crime to roller skate the Triple Lakes Trail in Alaska.

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  13. Nov 26

    Here's to hoping that next year we can all get together for a big dinner of turkey hunted with explosives, six-fruit jelly, grated cream cheese, and ketchup that flows more than 14cm in 30 seconds at 20°C when measured with a Bostwick Consistometer.

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  14. Nov 26

    21 USC §461 & 9 CFR §381.167 make it a federal crime to sell "sliced turkey with gravy" unless it's at least 35% turkey.

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  15. Nov 26

    I didn’t get ratioed. Thanksgiving got ratioed.

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  16. Nov 26

    You can make one Thanksgiving dish a federal crime. What is it?

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  17. Nov 25

    21 USC §§610, 676 & 9 CFR §319.144 make it a federal crime to sell "Whole Hog Sausage" if it's more than 50% fat.

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  18. Nov 25

    The Fifth Amendment means don’t reply to my tweets.

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  19. Nov 24

    43 USC §1733 & 43 CFR §6302.20(f) makes it a federal crime to build, install, or erect a structure or installation in a wilderness area administered by the Bureau of Land Management.

    Unexplained metal monolith discovered in southeastern Utah wilderness
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  20. Nov 23

    18 USC §842(j), §844(b) & 27 CFR §555.213(a) make it a federal crime to keep more than 300,000 pounds of explosives in a single storage magazine unless the ATF director says it's okay.

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  21. Nov 22

    27 USC §§205, 207 & 27 CFR §5.22(b)(1)(iii) make it a federal crime to sell “straight whisky” if it's a mix of straight whiskies that weren't all made in the same state.

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