I think I’d have dug deep and found the $40 somehow.
Rule #1...Always pay the hookers!
I want to offer a slightly different take o what might have happened. I think the guys negotiated the price with the girls...likely the same rate for all of them...then, when back in the rooms, once one, or two of the girls found out that there johns were USSS, they “raised” the prices...it’s an old trick tha whores play..figuring the guys will pay up to avoid any notoriety. One supposedly wanted $800, up from $80...The agents got screwrd, not once, but twice..
Not to mention, losing his job and getting divorced are going to cost ALOT more than that!!