Originally Posted by Bill8

Actually, no.

His bank reported "suspicious transactions" months before - they started watching him. They discovered the prosty thing because they were watching him.

They used a modification of the 10,000 limit inserted into the patriot act, that allows them to look for lesser amounts to find terrorists, to flag his banking and authorize the surveillance.

It's explained in these two articles.

http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=4424507&page=1

http://blogs.zdnet.com/BTL/?p=8211