Re: $100,000 in cash.
"There" being Apple and not the USA.
Apple is not the only employer in the USA
He has been released on $500,000 bail after lodging $100,000 in cash and putting some property up as collateral
What else is cash if it isn't actual cash?
If he had some money or some saving he could quickly sell in a bank and paid by bank transfer the whole thing doesn't sound creepy.
If he really paid cash sounds like having an unexplained source of money. The interpretation of the wording here can make a lot of difference and it seems you know it and you played with it.
I know i imagine a lot of things but sometimes i get it right. Or near enough.
You took so many assumptions from the few details present in the article that you have many chances as anyone else to get it right.