You seem to be missing at least a couple angles on the situation. As someone above explained, the losing contestants and possibly advertisers were being defrauded if they weren't in on the scheme. If you went on a game show, or to a casino or anything similar, and you found out later the game had been rigged so certain people would win and those "certain people" did not include you, I'm fairly certain that you or many people in that situation, and even many others who were not necessarily themselves defrauded, would feel cheated and demand something be done about it.
That happened in this instance. A local grand jury was initially called to investigate charges of conspiracy to defraud, and as it turned out, some witnesses called before that grand jury lied under oath. That's a perfect recipe for the original "sin" no longer being the issue, now perjury becomes the issue and the story tends to get much bigger than it would have otherwise.
It's somewhat analogous to the 1919 Black Sox scandal, wherein certain Chicago White Sox players conspired to "throw" the World Series in exchange for cash from underworld figures, who in turn stood to make a lot of money by knowing in advance who was going to win. You could say it's "only a game", but the problem is the conspiracy is a fraud perpetrated on those who lost money because, unbeknownst to them, the games were not on the "up and up". All the law needed for jurisdiction was one victim of the fraud, which they found in the form of Charles C. Nims, a man who legally bet on the White Sox to win without knowing the series was fixed. Mr. Nims represented the many thousands who lost money or were otherwise defrauded because they were unaware of the fix.
Congress got involved in the TV game show conspiracy because, as explained in the movie, they have oversight in TV and radio via their responsibilities concerning the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and the regulation of interstate commerce. The federal government, with oversight by congress, has extensive regulatory authority when it comes to broadcast media, including but not limited to game shows. Certainly an ongoing conspiracy wherein people were being defrauded out of possible winnings by a rigged format of which they were not aware would fall well within their investigative purview.
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