A: No. We would say that, since you’ve set you hand aside, that Secret never enters your hand, so you’re not revealing it from your hand, and you’re not choosing it as one of your two cards to play, so you don’t get pinned with the crime that way, either. To make a long story short, you don’t have to take any penalty! You dodged a bullet, or, in this case, a criminal record or social stigma.

But Draw 2 and Use ‘Em is another matter. The cards you play as part of that card are just as though you’d played them out of your hand, so in that case, you’d have to face the music…