Not asking enough questions is sufficient to get indicted for money laundering when it comes to bitcoin.  Making it harder for the US to track does qualify as money laundering.  Its as bad as structuring which is basically doing financial transactions to avoid IRS reporting requirements.  There were some legal cash businesses operating in the area  that did so much business they would take $7-8k to the bank 2-3 times per day.  They got charged with structuring (a lesser form of money laundering) because they were depositing into a bank account in amounts less than $10k even though the reporting requirements now are on any amount even as little as a couple thousand that is suspicious to the banks.  

Maybe they just did not want to keep tens of thousands in cash around.  I guess the solution would be to hire an armored car company do the pickups or something.  Sigh.  

Financial crimes in the US are sometimes as bad as tech law which is pretty bad.  There really is no area of the law where its not.  Once upon a time it used to be you actually had to do something "bad" to be charged.  Over time it has evolved into "you might be able to do something bad even though you never did" which is why shoe laces are sometimes considered machine guns and copper pot scrubbers are sometimes silencers.  (yes really, ATF has flat out said that - selective enforcement if they dont like you they charge you).  Mere possession is enough to trigger a raid, arrest, and yes even a conviction.  

This is not to say everyone charged is innocent of any actual wrong doing, it is not to say that specifically the GAW cult is not culpable, but prosecutorial overreach is common.  They often indict with everything and then offer a plea to drop the BS they could never convict on to get the other stuff.  

One thing to note, if it comes down to criminal charges from the feds about 95% plead guilty and about 75% of the 5% that go to trial are found guilty.  This leads to about a 1-2% acquittal rate.  If you were charged by the feds and not convicted you are either very very good (as is your lawyer) and you probably spent well over a million on a legal defense or you were absolutely not guilty under any circumstances.  State courts are totally different in this regard.  Federal civil cases do not have quite the same conviction rate when brought by federal agencies like the SEC.

This means if the GAW cult leadership is charged criminally it is extremely likely they will be found guilty or plead guilty.  They can make a plea deal and the judge can accept the guilty plea but not the terms and is free to sentence as they see fit (although they usually do go along with the deal it is deviated enough that its a real concern for defendants).  If they can convince a grand jury to indict they will almost assuredly get a conviction.  I wonder if Garza would entertain a 5k1.1 departure (substantial assistance  to the gov against someone else) and rat out everyone he can possibly know about especially related to the "terrorist funding".  That may put him into witness protection with a new identity although he would have to stay away from crypto for fear of someone recognizing him.