Yeah. I guess it could be grift if the distributor never really had a realistic buyer for them and they were just taking a high risk with somebody else's capit

Yeah. I guess it could be grift if the distributor never really had a realistic buyer for them and they were just taking a high risk with somebody else's capital or it was all in order the get the fees that the article mentioned them trying to charge. The article isn't clear about whether those fees are even in the contract or not, or how they overcame them.