The supposed fraudster ie FBI had acquired this loot from a stock deal so the funds were traceable no matter what lengths he would go through.
No he hadn't. It was an invented story; one they thought Scaglione would find plausible. It was a STING.
If this attorney really sat down and thought about this he would have put the thought together that this didn't make sense and knew he was getting set up but again he must have been in some kind of compromised situation financially.
He'd probably involved himself in a number of very similar situations in the past. That's why they were after him.