[Gaffer]

The money was returned to the family only after a detective determined it was obtained legally. The cash came from rental properties and a Mexican restaurant the family operates in the San Francisco Bay Area town of San Jose.

"You know how some people don't use banks, I think they're that type of person," the police spokesman said.

The family had attempted to rent a safe deposit box at a bank, but none was immediately available, he added.

There so much about this story that smells rankly to me.

[Hoodat]

I thought it was illegal to store cash in a safe deposit box.

[who_would_fardels_bear]

This is why the economy is still percolating along rather than cratering as it should with the amount of government corruption, crony capitalism, and overtaxation/over-regulation.

We have become like the former Soviet Union with much of the economy being a black market that hides under the radar.

I believe that the family earned this money 'honestly' with the only caveat being that they earned it in such a way that it might not have been as taxed or regulated as the government would have liked.

In the long run it would be better if people fought against the government for lower taxes and less regulation, but individuals who have to make a living and provide for their families can't wait until the congress pulls its collective head out of its posterior.

Their only option is to work off the books.