I think it would be in the best interests of the other operators of BTC-e to create a new domain and transfer the old website to a new domain. They can then allow their old users to access their accounts and withdraw them to other wallets off the site.
Not only would that be the right(moral) thing to do, I think it could also limit the amount of charges the US government will levy against them. Realistically if they take all the coins from everyone then the government will almost certainly try to put additional charges on them. They may do something like a single charge for each user who had their coins taken.
Someone posted earlier that there were 100,000 users on BTC-e. If you do the math in that scenario it adds up to a ton of charges, even if there were 100 admins on BTC-e, you're still talking the potential for a 100 years or more worth of potential jail time for each admin.
Not only would that be the right(moral) thing to do, I think it could also limit the amount of charges the US government will levy against them. Realistically if they take all the coins from everyone then the government will almost certainly try to put additional charges on them. They may do something like a single charge for each user who had their coins taken.
Someone posted earlier that there were 100,000 users on BTC-e. If you do the math in that scenario it adds up to a ton of charges, even if there were 100 admins on BTC-e, you're still talking the potential for a 100 years or more worth of potential jail time for each admin.