It’s hard to have any sympathy since the underlying case was hush money being paid as blackmail to someone to keep quiet about being a child molester.
But thats not the reason he is going to jail.
He is going to jail for not telling the government what he was doing with his own money. If he had actually told them that he was withdrawing to money for (personal expenses or something) he would have gotten away with it.
Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.
Exactly, and that is not the government's business. Someone should sue to overturn the "structuring" statute.