during a irs raid in spring 2006 , the defense demanded records , $ 42 , 000 in material was seized , and that afternoon kent hovind withdrew $ 70 , 000 from the creation biology evangelism account , half in a check ; the other in cash . at the november interview , the young soil heretical asked not to present a defense case . while the defendants asserted hovind never filed the taxes with the government , others testified hovind claimed he had " hit " the tax system , and also said hovind ' s evangelism was a practice not a church .
Hovind  was found guilty on 59 federal counts.