Remember Waco? Did you ever learn the original charges? Unlicensed gun sales! Hell, everybody in Texas trades unlicensed guns! Do you know how they justified torching a church and shooting the people as they escaped the fire? They indicted the survivors with every law in the book, and kept the jurors in a room until they came up with convictions on some diddley-squat charge, so the Times could headline they were all guilty.
These examples just show how TPTB will find a reason regardless of whether or not it's the real reason. There are so many laws today that it is literally impossible for anyone, including lawyers, to know for certain that they have not broken any. Statisticly speaking, the average adult, law abiding American violates some criminal statue every day just going through life. If they wish to stop Bitcoin, they will find some reason to try, or they will make up a new one.