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rational security, chatter, law fair no bull, and the aftermath.

What is the point of finding these statutes that broadly criminalize regulatory violations

and then ticking through all the regs?

I just find it remarkable how granular the conduct can be that is essentially accidentally getting made criminal, right?

And some of the things that regulators have apparently potentially due to an incident,

they're just distrust of, you know, human kind in general,

but how granular they've had to get.

I mean, they've had to tell us that you can't sell graded cream cheese.

I think the fact that somebody somewhere here in Washington said,

we got to put an end to all those people grading cream cheese out there.

I'm Benjamin Wittis and this is the LawFair podcast June 29th, 2019.

We don't usually do humor on the LawFair podcast.

We're a lot of things, but we're not usually funny.

But this week, we're hamming it up.

You probably know Mike Chase.

If you're on Twitter as at crime a day, the long time anonymous Twitter feed that tweets out one fact pattern a day

that violates some combination of the criminal law and the code of federal regulations.

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