[Glad it turned out well]
They don’t clap you in irons right away. That’s the thing about cops. Even for murder, it can take a while. Gathering material against the people they’re targeting takes time. Even Mike Flynn accepted a plea bargain almost a year after he was first interviewed, and the charges weren’t over anything quite as politically-loaded as the Animal House imbroglio on Capitol Hill. The Chekisti who currently populate the FBI are highly-attuned to political currents in Washington. It would not surprise me if RICO was used quite liberally against many of the demonstrators.