Wouldn't Arthur Tressler's bank return all of his money under the circumstances?
In the movie "Now You See Me", during the second magic show, the Four Horseman steal all of Arthur Tressler's money and give it away to people who had previously held insurance agreements with one of Arthur's companies that had refused to pay out after a natural disaster.
I'm no expert on the American banking system, but surely in the instance where something like this happened, with the FBI watching it happen and confirming it had happened, the banks would reverse all of the transactions and return all of Arthur Tressler's money to him?
Wouldn't Arthur Tressler's bank return all of his money under the circumstances?
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Bank accounts in the US (I believe this was a US bank, but not sure) are covered under an insurance provided by the FDIC. Assuming all of his money was in one account, as seems the case, the deposit would only have been covered for $250,000. From a realism point of view, no person with that sort of money would have kept all of their money in one account or one location. They would be highly diversified, not only from an earnings side of things, but from a safety side of things to prevent just this sort of action.
As far as the "FBI watching it happen", since Rhodes is the lead investigator and the instigator, he would not have pursued any action which would interrupt that plan. He either would not have provided any information or would have conveniently destroyed any information garnered from the investigation. He had put too much time and effort into the entire scheme and would not have any bit of it fall apart in the end.
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How much money did Arthur Tressler lose?
It is then revealed later in their performance that the Four Horsemen stole over 140 million dollars from Tressler's private accounts and, much to Tressler's frustration, The Four Horsemen distributes the money to the audience in front of him and escapes, leaving Tressler to face the people's wrath.Who was Arthur Tressler in Now You See Me?
Arthur Tressler is the secondary antagonist in Now You See Me and later one of the two main antagonists of Now You See Me 2. He is portrayed by Michael Caine.Wouldn't It Be Nice (Remastered 1999)
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