Originally Posted by
RadioGirl
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Except it's not a crime to carry a wad of money. It's only a crime if three other conditions are met: a) it's more than $10k, b) they're going o/s and c) they haven't declared it. Only the combination of those three is a crime. Any two is perfectly legal.
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Excellent post (as yours typically are). However for the above extract, I believe you're not quite correct.
The "They haven't declared it" part must also have a time dimension.
In other words, I have just assembled >$10k in cash, and I will be leaving the country with it. I don't believe I have committed an offense until I have left the country, or at least reached an unreturnable point in exiting the country during my journey.
And Bart's check-point at SAT does not constitue such a point. All he and his airport LEO partners could expect to show is that I haven't filed the required paperwork,
yet.
Who knows, an overreacher could start up with a "conspiracy to transport cash" angle... In the current environment they might even be successful.
