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The average professional in this country wakes up in the
morning, goes to work, comes home, eats dinner, and then goes to
sleep, unaware that he or she has likely committed several federal
crimes that day. Why? The answer lies in the very nature of modern
federal criminal laws, which have exploded in number but also
become impossibly broad and vague. In Three Felonies a Day, Harvey
A. Silverglate reveals how federal criminal laws have become
dangerously disconnected from the English common law tradition and
how prosecutors can pin arguable federal crimes on any one of us,
for even the most seemingly innocuous behavior. The volume of
federal crimes in recent decades has increased well beyond the
statute books and into the morass of the Code of Federal
Regulations, handing federal prosecutors an additional trove of
vague and exceedingly complex and technical prohibitions to stick
on their hapless targets. The dangers spelled out in Three Felonies
a Day do not apply solely to “white collar criminals,” state and
local politicians, and professionals. No social class or profession
is safe from this troubling form of social control by the executive
branch, and nothing less than the integrity of our constitutional
democracy hangs in the balance.
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HARVEY A. SILVERGLATE is counsel to Boston’s Zalkind,
Rodriguez, Lunt Duncan LLP, specializing in criminal defense,
civil liberties, and academic freedomstudent rights law. He is
co-founder and Chairman of FIRE Foundation for Individual Rights
in Education and is a regular columnist for The Boston Phoenix.
Silverglate has been published in The National Law Journal, The
Wall Street Journal, The New York Times Book Review, and elsewhere.
He is author of The Shadow University with Alan Charles Kors.
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Acknowledgments
Foreword by Alan M. Dershowitz
Introduction: Traps and Snares for the Unwary Innocent
1. Reeling in the Great White, and Other Tales of Fishing for State
and Local Pols
2. Giving Doctors Orders
3. The Unhealthy Pursuit of Medical Device and Drug Companies
4. Following or Harassing? the Money
5. Accounting for the Perils Facing Business Support Services: The
Late Arthur Andersen Co. and Its Repercussions
6. Lawyers: Government Offense Against the Best Defense
7. Doing Their Duty or Committing Espionage? and Other Media
Twilight Zones
8. National Security: Protecting the Nation from Merchants,
Artists,
Professors, Students and Lobbyists for Non-Profits?
Conclusion: For Whom the Bell Tolls
Endnotes
Index
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