[Defiant]

The checks had been in storage since 1983 at Huntington's Columbus headquarters, after Huntington took over Union Commerce Bank and acquired boxes upon boxes of old records.

What I don't see explained is how Union Commerce Bank came to possess all these historic checks from banks all over the country.

[Blue Ink]

Yes! Like you said, the supposed “checks in their records” aren’t even FROM that bank; they’re from all over the country.

Something’s definitely fishy.

[Pelham]

“I smell a rat.”

It’s not a rat. They inherited the Union Commerce material and bought the others from collectors like this crew:

http://www.ascheckcollectors.org/index.html