re: #20 Khal Wimpo (the extinguisher of tiki torches)

True on the state charges; but the problem is that Fed law supersedes and controls on a lot of the money-laundering and bank fraud charges. As well as the whole “collaborating with a hostile foreign power” stuff.

Some states have very stringent money laundering charges, such as NY and CA, so no, it wont supersede.

Pardons also raise Burdick issues - namely that to get the pardon, you’d have to allocute to a crime, and it then opens the door to revealing more criminality by others on both state and federal charges.

The federal conspiracy charges have no state analog, so if you are pardoned on those, there’s no way around it.