Jack Terrier was a prominent lawyer in Hudson City. A maestro of the criminal justice system, Jack would perform before nodding, complacent, if not complicit, judges many times a day. There, over expensive Scotch and free corned beef, judges found leniency to be its own reward. Captain Piskorskey, in addition to his duties as a peace officer, had a night job at a trucking terminal. He made a deal with the watchman to allow Jack MacGonigle to drive into the yard with a van.
Large businesses work differently.
It takes a long time for anybody to realize that anything is amiss. Then there will be a host of claims to both the trucking outfit and to various insurance companies for the lost merchandise. When it is obvious to all that the dam has, in fact, sprung a leak, the FBI will be contacted. The Feds have their own circular set of maneuvers. They just don't run out to the warehouse and drag some clown off to Newark.