The Story
Somebody with credentials has combed through a mountain of boring literature, highlighted all the ticklish parts and served them up for appreciation. This is an excellent book for people who like to start sentences with Did you know that The New York TimesA hilarious, entertaining, and illuminating compendium of the most bizarre ways you might become a federal criminal in Americafrom mailing a mongoose to selling Swiss cheese without enough holeswritten and illustrated by the creator of the wildly popular @CrimeADay Twitter account.Have you ever clogged a toilet in a national forest? That could get you six months in federal prison. Written a letter to a pirate? You might be looking at three years in the slammer. Leaving the country with too many nickels, drinking a beer on a bicycle in a national park, or importing a pregnant polar bear are all very real crimes, and this riotously funny, ridiculously entertaining, and fully illustrated book shows how just about anyone can becomeor may already bea federal criminal.Whether youre a criminal defense lawyer or just a selftaught expert in outrageous offenses, How to Become a Federal Criminal is your wonderfully weird window into a criminally overlooked sector of American government.
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Somebody with credentials has combed through a mountain of boring literature, highlighted all the ticklish parts and served them up for appreciation. This is an excellent book for people who like to start sentences with Did you know that The New York TimesA hilarious, entertaining, and illuminating compendium of the most bizarre ways you might become a federal criminal in Americafrom mailing a mongoose to selling Swiss cheese without enough holeswritten and illustrated by the creator of the wildly popular @CrimeADay Twitter account.Have you ever clogged a toilet in a national forest? That could get you six months in federal prison. Written a letter to a pirate? You might be looking at three years in the slammer. Leaving the country with too many nickels, drinking a beer on a bicycle in a national park, or importing a pregnant polar bear are all very real crimes, and this riotously funny, ridiculously entertaining, and fully illustrated book shows how just about anyone can becomeor may already bea federal criminal.Whether youre a criminal defense lawyer or just a selftaught expert in outrageous offenses, How to Become a Federal Criminal is your wonderfully weird window into a criminally overlooked sector of American government.
