Who is John Pozsgai from Rand Paul's book, Government Bullies: How Everyday Americans Are Being Harassed, Abused, and Imprisoned by the Feds?

John Pozsgai was a Hungarian immigrant who purchased a dump near his home. In the process of clearing the area in order to build, he moved dirt and soil from one side of his lot to fill in a lower lying spot on the land. The EPA objected, claiming that Pozsgai violated the Clean Water Act by discharging pollutants into the navigable waters of the United States. In reality, according to Rand, Pozsgai simply moved fill into an area of dry land that was adjacent to a drainage ditch that connected to the non-navigable Delaware Canal. Rand accuses the EPA of falsifying records and manufacturing proof of wetland property, but in the end, the EPA won, and Pozsgai served a year and a half in federal prison, and was fined $202,000 (later reduced to $5,000).