Has there been any explanation as to why the money was delivered to Cooper wrapped in rubber bands? At that time banks organized and secured bills in “currency straps”. Why would the money given to Cooper be wrapped in rubber bands and not in standard currency straps?
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Yes. Carr and I both talked to the SeaFirst worker who grouped the bills into bundles and wrapped each 'bundle' with one or more rubber bands, personally, for delivery to the FBI and SEATAC. There is a long-long thread about this. I forget the year Carr and I found the bank worker and talked to him, but the issue of paper straps came up suddenly short of my Sci Team receiving bills from Brian Ingram and doing a second analysis of the money. I talked to Brian about this and Brian referred me to his mother and she and I talked. Brian talked to his mother also. I think Carr called Brian's mother and talked to her also! The issue was fully vetted.
FLYJACK rejects all of this, calls Carr stupid, a liar, confused, wrong etc .... and me a moron clown. FJ started by claiming all 'packets' of bills originally had paper straps around them. FJ claimed all uses of the word 'packet' in all 302's or crew testimony was intentional technical terminology, because 'packet' is an official bank term and all people speaking about the money were aware of that term and using it! FJ then changed his theory to account for 'rubber bands'! Today FJ's theory insists the bills were pulled off the line, grouped into small groups wrapped in rubber bands, then grouped further into "PACKETS" wrapped with paper 'bank type bands'. He says all of the paper straps dissolved due to water at Tina Bar which explains why the Ingrams never saw any paper straps! FJ has avoided the issue of bank labels on the paper straps...
There is a long thread on this issue which started at DZ years ago and continued here through multiple long posts. I hate having to go back and repeat it all.
Later, a Seafirst Security guy surfaced and explained that all 'labeled paper bank straps' were always removed from all ransom money as a security precaution, so no package of ransom money could be linked to any particular bank! By the time the Seafirst employee was bundling bills into groups to go to the FBI for Cooper, no paper straps were involved, and the only way to hold groups of money together was using rubber bands! Which is exactly what the Seafirst employee to Ckret and me he did!
FJ rejects all of this. He bases his theory on the occurrence of anyone using of the word "packet" in any FBI 302 or any other document, irrespective of the fact the same people also refer to the money using words like: bundle, bundles, packages, parcels, groups, et cetera.
FJ insists that "packet" is an official banking term which everyone involved in the Cooper hijacking was aware of, and used!
Having talked to Larry, Brian, Brian's mother, and the bank guy who wrapped the bundles with rubber bands only ... FJ's theory is utter nonsense. It's crazy.