during a irs sweep in spring 2006 , the company seizing recordings , $ 42 , 000 in dollars was seized , and that day kent hovind withdrew $ 70 , 000 from the earth science evangelism accounts , half in a book ; the other in paper . at the november courthouse , the young earth revisionists chose not to presented a defended case . while the prosecution noted hovind never lodged corporate taxes with the administration , another claimed hovind claimed he had " beat " the tax system , and staff said hovind ' s evangelism was a corporation not a minister .
Hovind  was found guilty on 59 federal counts.