Apparently the bad guys didn't know...
That the bank didn't allow non customers to take out no more than 500 dollars a day.
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It's a scene that you have to pay close attention to.
The bad guys wanted an express wire to route the $90K directly from Jeff's bank account (not his credit card) into cash.
Jeff knows he doesn't have the money in that account. So he tries to see how much he can get in cash off his credit card. The limit for cash that a non-customer can get at that particular bank is $500.
I hope that explains the basic situation.
Having said that, I don't know a whole lot about express wiring large amounts of money or limits on on the process, particularly at a small-town bank outlet in the mid-late 1990s. Off hand, it seems like it would be difficult to do, and it seems like the bad guys would probably know that before they would demand that someone do it. I can guarantee that an express wire of that kind of money, even if it could be done, would raise GIANT red flags to whatever banker or bank employee who was working with that particular customer, especially at a bank in some podunk town where a nervous, twitchy guy walks in wearing a dirty coat and says that he wants $90,000 express wired into cash from his bank account. There would certainly be immediate contact with federal authorities, even if it could be done.
That makes sense, thanks for explaining that.
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I wonder if it's even possible to walk into a bank to which you (presumably) have no connection and wire such a large amount of money into cash, even it's in your account. Would a two-bit bank like Brackett's even have $90,000 in cash in store?
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Good question!
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