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What is funny about this article...is that he paid his taxes. Yep...make sure everyone understands this fact...he paid taxes. Never once, did this guy ever demonstrate himself as a threat. In fact...he did the American dream...build on hard work and establish your reputation on sweat.

Just another reason why this administration has a broken compass and a 40-year old map. They want to build half a fence to protect the Mexican border...not a whole fence. They want to establish all kinds of laws to take care of illegal alliens...yet never enforce them...yet talk about adding more laws. This is the same administration that had alot of ability to monitor people with search warrants...yet chose to avoid that because of some kind of perceived presidential authority.

What did this administration do about ID theft over past six years? Virtually nothing. What did this administration choose to do about fixing social security over the past six years? Virtually nothing.

I would like to stand with a Conservative organization and work on the values of America...but their track record is that of the Milwaukee Brewers...who are yearly losers.

I read the whole article, and didn't see any mention of tax evasion.

Movements of cash overseas above a certain amount must be declared to the IRS. Non-reporting of these amounts constitutes tax evasion. Evading taxes is possibly why he did not report these transactions, or move the money through official banking channels, choosing instead to use the under-the-table hawala system. Or worse. My suspicion - which is similar to what the Feds may believe - is that he was actually making contributions to terrorist outfits. Here's the relevant passage:

Bin Lateef believes he originally came to the attention of investigators because he was a Pakistani national with a check-cashing company among his holdings. He said authorities began looking into his business in 2003. He also said that for a number of years he sent as much as $24,000 to $36,000 annually to his family in Pakistan, sometimes using "hawala," the system of informal money transfers in which cash moves between friends and relatives.

His lawyer believes authorities also were concerned about a September 2003 trip Bin Lateef took with his family through Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and Germany.

Commenting on this type of case, Jimmy Gurul?, a law professor at the University of Notre Dame who was undersecretary for enforcement at the Treasury Department from 2001 to 2003, said a number of issues would have interested investigators. "The combination of the international travel, the combination of the money being transferred abroad through a hawala-type system or certainly the use of false identification documents are all red flags of possible terrorist activity," he said.