For a defendant with no prior criminal convictions, an offense level of 37 yields 210 to 262 months (17 1/2 to almost 22 years). A defendant who accepted responsibility could reduce that range to 151 to 188 months if the prosecution agreed to deduct the third point.
And here I expected a charge for treason proper
For some reason I have a feeling that was never on the table. His famous comment of “I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot somebody and I wouldn’t lose voters.” may not have been entirely true, but it certainly was not entirely wrong either.