If I were him, I'd negotiate a 3-5 prison sentence with U.S. prosecutors in exchange for them not having to waste taxpayer money on a highly unpopular and expensive trial against the best criminal defense lawyers in the country (who will be CLAMORING for this case pro bono in order to promote their own names) that might result in a highly embarrassing and job-threatening loss for the government lawyers and my complete and utter freedom anyway. Threaten the U.S. prosecutors with full defection to China, Cuba, or North Korea if they refuse my terms -- which they won't. Use the time in jail (considering the non-violent nature of the crime, most likely in a medium-security federal prison with plenty of outdoor and recreation time) to get a book-and-movie deal and write the book and the screenplay, and then spend the rest of my life hanging out with celebrities and taking the U.S. speech-and-lecture circuit at $50,000 a pop.
That's how a smart man turns lemons into lemonade with style.
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Until during your prison sentence you just happen to get murdered by some prison inmate when the guards happen to have their backs turned.
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[url=http://www.bjs.gov/index.cfm?ty=tp&tid=194]Highly unlikely[/url].
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13 people were killed by another inmate in federal prison in 2008. So people are murdered in prison. How often do traitors end up in prison? Infrequently enough that you just happening to get murdered isn't that suspicious I imagine. Or you could be killed trying to evade capture, or all sorts of other shenanigans.
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Umm, Federal Prison doesn't really have those kinds of people. Federal prisons tend to have people who are tax evaders and commit other crimes that aren't really violent. State penitentiaries on the other hand...