Except Mt Gox was hacked and the coins no longer were available to be returned. This is a rather different situation where (assuming the US gov now owns the coins) the feds are openly stealing from innocent people in broad daylight. Something doesn't add up with that and is why I think there's still a good chance once everything is 'audited' the legit users will get their funds back. Of course if BTC-e is now pushed into exit scamming then who knows.

The silence and lack of information is killing me though. At least with Mt Gox it was clear the funds were stolen.