Banks have always demanded a few days notice for large cash withdrawals because they don’t have that much cash at any time physically to give you.
I needed $68k in 1980 to buy an airplane and I had to give the bank 3 days notice so they could get it delivered from the Federal Reseerve bank.
Why didn’t you just get a cahiers check?
Why didn’t you just get a cashiers check?
The DEA should have seized your money until you could prove it was not proceeds from the sale of drugs.