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You may end up in case of "You can avoid the rap, but you cannot avoid the ride". And the avoidance would cost a lot.

Of course you might get a national security letter silencing you from even talking to the judges, getting put in a nice trap if you try to garner support to defend yourself on what you did you could run into further issues.



The party across the table is the US Dept of State, and all its friends. A reasonable person probably doesn't want to be on the other side of that.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Traffic_in_Arm...

SpaceX would only be willing to make that jump if it were fine never getting a contract from the US government again, which means the US economy and/or state imploded.




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