Anatomy Of A Bank Takeover : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2009/03/26/102384657/anatomy-of-a-bank-takeover

“One by one, agents check into a hotel, each quietly offering a pseudonym to the guy at the desk.”

This article is from 2009; even back then hotels were checking ID pretty much every time. How exactly were FDIC employees bypassing that? Or did the journalist just make that up?