The "new" news from reports surrounding the SW is that JW put the money into a red bag that then went into a Manila envelope. People are assuming it was a money bag since that would fit in an envelope. I don't think the type of bag has been specified by LE. But losing the plot is easy in the case. Sheesh.
The charging docs. state that JW's final version of how he delivered the money is that he put "the cash" into a manilla envelope he found in the designated unlocked car. Those documents do not state he put the red bag into that envelope, just the cash itself, at least as per his account after he admitted to lying. The charging docs refer to the bag as a "red lined bag," which could mean a few different things: a red bag that is lined inside with some kind of material/color; a bag with red lining inside it; a red bag with lines on it--as in striped or decorated somehow.
Certainly, one can interpret the account of JW's story to investigators to mean that he conveys implicitly that he put the "red lined bag" in the manilla envelope he found in the car. But literally, verbatim, that is not what he's documented as saying.
We have great leeway to interpret what the "bag" looks like.
Other than in news stories, if some one can find another LE-sourced document stating a description of the bag, that would help us.
As some threads back, we agree that punctuation is important. These days it is somewhat at one's discretion (commas most especially) in journalism, for instance, and though in an official document a transcriptionist might go out of her way to clarify with commas, she also might happen to write "red lined bag" instead of "red, lined bag" or "red and lined bag" and we could still debate!
Most likely the bag was red. The "bag" could have been a cash envelope or a duffle bag or a wallet-sized bag. What think anyone as to the size according to the purpose?
Anywhere this bag is described as other than "bag," or the instruction as other than picking up a "package?" With the news stories, we get an interpreted version. Daily Mail Online iirc states that JW recounted the employee as handing him a red bag, when the CD makes very clear that W-1, in his account post-lying, contends he brought his own bag with him to the bank and that that is the bag at hand so to speak.
