In this case, the streamers themselves might not be guilty. The crime is being a foreign agent paying the media without being registered. That’s on the foreign agents, not the streamers.

That still might mean they don’t get to keep the money, but it can also be useful to prosecutors to let it slide. It’s a classic move to give the lower level guys a pass to flip them against the higher level guys. Keep working your way up until you, hopefully, get the leader, or someone close, anyway.