during a taxpayer operation in early 2006 , the government confiscated recordings , $ 42 , 000 in cash was seized , and that day kent hovind collected $ 70 , 000 from the creating medical pentecostal account , half in a paper ; the other in payment . at the november trial , the young mars apologetics chose not to present a criminal case . while the prosecution reported hovind never reported corporate taxes with the irs , witnesses testimony hovind claimed he had " beat " the tax authority , and employees alleged hovind ' s evangelism was a business not a ministry .
Hovind  was found guilty on 59 federal counts.