Harvey Silverglate has written a book, [Three Felonies a Day: How the Feds Target the Innocent](http://rads.stackoverflow.com/amzn/click/1594032556), in which he claims, according to the Amazon blurb:

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This claim has received some press recently when conservative intellectual Dinesh D'Souza invoked it to explain why he had been charged with violating campaign finance laws. Silverglate has a [web site](http://www.threefeloniesaday.com/Youtoo/tabid/86/Default.aspx) where he lists some laws that he claims the average person might violate unwittingly.

Is it true that the average American unwittingly commits three felonies a day?