"""If your income is already illegal, breaking one more law may not expose you to much additional risk, but it might, and it might give the government a case that they can prove, rather than one they can't."""
Correct! But realistically, the gang that couldn't shoot straight should've spent a lot more time sweating over the money transportation details..... like a Subway's luncheon-meat technician, sweating over a provolone and salami hero like he's defusing a bomb.