That was technically the U S Attorney’s office, not the FAA legal team. The changing of the definition of ‘commercial’ has blown up the entire FAA regulation system between student / private pilot and ‘commercial pilot’.
Take some time to read the regulations over. My only suggestion for this problem is to do away with private pilot. Make them all commercial. They still can’t really work commercially in the airlines and that was the public freak out.
Other wise…. It is likely none of the current commercial pilots got their certificates lawfully.
How can that be fixed?