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Follow FIRE Chairman Harvey Silverglate on Twitter!
FIRE Co-founder and Chairman Harvey Silverglate, author of the book Three Felonies a Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent, can now be followed on the popular microblogging site Twitter. You can follow him at twitter.com/3felonies as he discusses current developments that are relevant to his book. You can also read more about how Harvey's experiences with FIRE cases helped lead him to write his latest book here.
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