I been here just a tad longer than you, newbie, and I have borne witness to much more serious crimes against the American people than "conspiring to steal" a piece of shuttle debris (which would include shuttle toilet paper, by your mark).
The prosecutors in this case are making poor examples out of these people, and I frankly begin to tire of this sort of grandstanding.
Yeah, and there's people who've been in Washington forever who don't belong either.
Your "toilet paper" remarks are an attempt to demean the serious nature of what has happened. Circut boards, heat tiles, pieces of the hull - these are not trivial items.
A piece of a Solid Rocket Booster that was fished out of the ocean confirmed the cause of the Challenger accident - A burn hole at the joint of the rocket showed an O ring failure had allowed exhaust to vent toward the fuel tank.
But you don't see any merit in investigating an accident, I guess. Let me know if someone special in your life dies in a crash. I'll send you (and I'll even Overnight Express it) a roll of toilet paper.