How a Teen Summer Program Was Swept Up in a $17 Million Heist

Hilary Swift/The New York Times/Redux

In the video, three grown men stand in the back of a mostly empty bodega around an ATM, a fat stack of dollar bills on a shelf beside them. The location is nondescript; the store appears stocked with everyday goods like pasta, cooking oil, and plastic cutlery. But the thousands and thousands of dollars in $20 bills, which one man picks up and fans out for the camera, is anything but normal for the setting. Debit cards do not usually allow account holders...