So everyone here thinks that what was stolen was 200 1k bills? $200,000 dollars is a lot of paper AND there were at least two agencies there with multiples of each in the house. So this conspiracy was hatched by 6-12 all corrupt law enforcement officers, most of whom had just met each other AND all of them are crooked?
Actually, that’s not a lot of paper. In hundreds, it would probably fit in a shoebox.
“$200,000 dollars is a lot of paper...”
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Not really. Take out ten new bills from your pocket and stack them up. Compressed they measure less than 1/16th of an inch.
$200,000 in new $100.00 bills would be a 12.5 inch stack that could easily concealed inside pockets, etc.
Cyman, you really don’t think the ATF guys just met each other the night of the raid, do you? They’re a ‘brotherhood’ that hang out with each other all the time, i.e., golfing, partying, fishing, hunting, poker games. Not to mention all the time they are practicing at the range or prepping for a raid.
BATFE agents most likely took the cash. Bet on it. The problem? How does this couple prove they had that much cash?
Well, it would be more a more implausible scenario if things like this didn’t happen repeatedly in pretty much every major vice department in the country. It seems that if you put cops in a position where they have regular access to untraceable funds, there will always be a few that can rationalize siphoning some off for themselves. Why should we think that ATF agents are any different?