Although this does sound like the plot of Pretty Woman, I’m not buying.
I don’t think Turnip tried to whore out any of his people, if that is what you are saying.
I saw NO evidence of that, at all, and don’t mean to imply that in the least.
That IS a Jerry Jones move — a man I also put in the category of Trump regarding honesty, except he actually makes money for his investors, so I will do business with him, at a distance.
Turnip’s move is to promise great riches and wine and dine. Big generalities and investment models with impossible assumptions.
Big flash at meetings and fly on jets.
I think it mainly works on investment bankers who are not investing their own money, but also pump and dump junk at the next level. Mini-me Turnips, in other words.
We invest our own money and are more impressed with results.