It's not illegal to transport money. It's just illegal to not declare it. But I don't know the consequences of declaring that much money.
The consequences of
not declaring the money could mean that Anthony is out $195,736 according to the media release:
Count two of the complaint, bulk cash smuggling, carries a maximum term of imprisonment of five years and forfeiture of all property involved in the offense.
And I don't think Global Entry gets you out of walking past Customs. Does it?
In my limited experience, you walk past and hand over the receipt, they can stop you but never have in the few times I've been able to use it. As the press release above puts it:
At airports, program members proceed to Global Entry kiosks, present their machine-readable passport or U.S. permanent resident card, place their fingers on the scanner for fingerprint verification, and complete a Customs verification. The kiosk issues the traveler a transaction receipt and directs the traveler to baggage claim and the exit.
If these felony smuggling charges are anything like cheating on your taxes, this guy may cut a deal, stay out of jail and keep his job. I've even seen guys do hard time in camp cupcake at Eglin and come back to the line in the left seat so the feds could garnish their wages for tax evasion.
In the late '80's a bunch of F-16 drivers from the Homestead AFB guard unit got caught cheating on ATP writtens (I bought the answers fair and square in a book
). Most were airline pilots, some got time off, some got fired, at least until the union got their jobs back. One of these folks is now a fed, another is a double breasted check airman on the 767. It pays to polish those academy rings.
The classic legal test of whether a criminal conviction would affect your ability to hold a professional license, i.e. pilot, medical or law license, is whether the offense was a crime of moral turpitude. Cheating on your taxes (or your ATP written exam) was not considered moral turpitude, killing your spouse and having kiddie porn on the other hand were in cases I've seen.
Don't know about bulk cash smuggling...