Same if I go to Vegas or hire 20 illegals and pay them cash. Paying cash is not illegal. Failure to withhold taxes is or is hiring undocumented workers.
I will digress a bit. If cocain is illegal, it is not about amouint. If a gram, you are probably not a dealer. If it is a gram and a suitcase full of money. Probably a dealer. If you have 100 dollars, 500, 5,000 at what point is it illegal? If like by bank buddy at church goes to buy a car on e-bay, they don't want a hot check. He will take 20,000 dollars. Fly out and drive home if the car runs as pictured.
Druggies want to launder money and take hundreds of thousands into a bank and wire transfer. so reporting 10,000 or more makes sense to HSA but it doesn't keep you off a plane. Taking cash out of the bank for 9,000 5 days in a row may get one reported. It is not a crime. It is merely a reporting requirement. 40,000 is a good number to fly to Puerto rico and gamble at dorado beech and fill a boat with gas for deep sea fishing for several days.
Thing is Puerto rico is usually thru Miami. Many others have direct flights and there are of course boats where a person could pay cash for drugs. all the agents needed to do was bring out the laws showing detention for possession of legal currency. They were angry because they got caught and couldn't.
TSA is Not US customs.
http://www.aa.com/aa/i18nForward.do?...horEvent=false
TSA says nothing about money other than coins.
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