The US Attorney for D.C. has used those exact words.
And 18 USC § 2384 imposes fines and prison time “not to exceed 20 years.”
Of course, that would be per count, and it’s likely they can find ways to charge multiple counts.
Well, won’t that be nice.
It’s troubling, how easy it is to accept “situation normal” once the initial shock/outrage has been shouldered aside by the next spectacle.
Except Donald Trump is too chickenshit to communicate it to Putin himself. That is what Michael Flynn, Roger Stone, Paul Manafort and Jeff Sessions (Mayflower Hotel before the GOP 2016 Convention) were for.