Hiding your drug money in a sofa
Here's an idea: put it in a safety deposit box instead.
shareOP -- it would have made no difference. They found the drugs and the money because the fat dude ratted him out. Even if Norton had put everything in a safety deposit box, the fat guy would have told the DEA agents of the box; and Norton would've been busted anyways.
The sofa wasn't the reason he got caught; the fat Russian was the reason.
White Privilege. He knows that being White he is far less likely for the cops to target him so he got complacent, arrogant, whatever you wanna call it.