during a irs raid in spring 2006 , the authorities confiscated registers , $ 42 , 000 in cash was seized , and that day kent hovind withdrew $ 70 , 000 from the creation art evangelism account , one in a check ; the other in silver . at the september trial , the little american iconoclastic chose not to present a defense challenge . while the government noted hovind lacked filed income statements with the government , others testified hovind claimed he had " beat " the tax system , and witnesses believed hovind ' s evangelism was a business not a ministry .
Hovind  was found guilty on 59 federal counts.