Let me try to clarify the significance of the "bands"..
If they were paper bands that strongly supports the 3 TBAR packets being part of a single rubber banded bundle..
However, paper bank bands are not needed to reach that conclusion.
Logic..
The Bank claimed they randomized and re-banded the bundles to make the money look hastily prepared.
TBAR packets were in 100 bills x $20 = $2000. They were not randomized.
If the packets were not randomized then the Bank MUST HAVE randomized the bundles (groups of packets)
and if the bundles (groups of packets) were randomized then they were also re-banded with rubber bands..
Conclusion, the 3 TBAR packets were part of a single rubber banded bundle.
That lifts the restriction based on packet proximity for how the money could have arrived..
The TBAR money still could have but not necessarily arrived in a container or by personal means.
Your theory requires four elements:
1) Paper bands to have completely dissolved.
2) The outer rubber bands to have completely dissolved while the several bands binding the three individual packets to remain intact.
3) No one to have noticed or commented definitively on either these paper bands or the packets being bound in bundles.
4) Everyone to have been wrong about their assertions that the money found on Tena Bar originated as three separate packets.
You missed my point completely, paper bands are not necessary to reach the conclusion.. that is what I tried to clarify.
1 - paper bands not necessary, but they would have completely dissolved 2-4 months
2 - nope, there is no evidence for the actual location of the rubber band fragments - they existed but where?
3 - they did, both Tina and SeaFirst bank statement in FBI doc support bank bands
4 - YES, everyone is wrong based on assumptions and a conflation of terminology, there is no evidence to support 3 independent packets vs one initial banded bundle.
But, you don't need to accept paper bands to reach the one banded bundle conclusion.. it supports it but isn't necessary.
If the 3 TBAR packets were not randomized they must have been part/all of one (randomized) bundle.
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