“Why would such a piss ant crime carry a 30 year sentence?”
Well, it is becoming clearer every day that those in power either make or interpret the law any way they want. Clearly they try to do this with the Constitution.
In other words, Mueller used the threat of ruination of Cohen’s wife to get him to “compose” a story (lie).
So who’s gonna prosecute Mueller? For that matter, when are we going to see indictments of people like Mueller, Rosenstein, Rice, Brennan, Clapper, and the list goes on...?