Notoriety still provides some protection and the illusion of things being consistent is still important. More likely if they want to go that far, they will loo

Notoriety still provides some protection and the illusion of things being consistent is still important. More likely if they want to go that far, they will look for something else unrelated to charge him with, like wire fraud or something. That could be deterred by a threat to leak more, but then that becomes a dangerous game for both sides.