Imagine if you are a journalist (or even worse a regulator) and you learn that Evan told people he would not start mining and then instamined it. Imagine on top of that if the journalist then also learns that Evan the reduced the number of coins?
I suspect Dash will be attacked far more than we have ever seen.
Evan may be frog-marched into prison for advertising to unsophisticated/unqualified retail/casual investors his Masternode HYIP. You can't sell people Masternodes with promises of specific ROI percentages and fail to disclose the (overwhelming) risks involved.
Otoh and Rich may be frog-marched into prisoin for operating Masternodes, which basically paint a target on their owner's back for committing offenses related to money laundering (coin mixing) and unlicensed money services (InstantX).
The rest of THE DARKCOIN FOUNDATION may be frog-marched into prison for non-profit fraud (and probably Instamine tax evasion as well).