I disagree that this is “much more serious” than the email scandal, though as you say, they are connected.
The core of the email scandal is the gross mishandling of top level classified information. That’s enough to put her in jail for the rest of her unnatural life, and if treason can be proven, it should be enough to give her the death penalty.
But it was the minor crime of tax evasion that put Al Capone out of business. Whatever it takes to put The Wicked Witch of Chappaqua in jail is fine with me.
Treason almost impossible to prove here. It requires a LEGALLY PROVABLE INTENT to damage the US. The damage cannot just have been the result.
For Treason to stick, the damage to the US would have to be proved to be the PURPOSE of the acts, not just the outcomes.
For treason to be proved, damage must have been the INTENT , not just the result of failure to follow rules, protocols, etc, and that’s tough to PROVE.
Her email crime is generally one of omission, rather than commission.... but that’s OK, it’s still a serious felony, but in this case, a big fine, probation.
The unjust personal enrichment, the whole CGI is something else. Assuming the Gmvt. can prove this happened multiple times with multiple entities, there is easily provable INTENT to defraud, etc.
A crime of commission, rather one of omission, is generally much more serious. That’s 5-20 years.