Kepler
Si certus es dubita
There are elements of both with good old fashioned snake oil and stock swindles added as well. He sells his name as collateral, borrows against himself/org/assets and then uses the fact he has financial backing to pump up the value and get more investors. He then runs around bragging that the money he has in the project is his own personal wealth to pump it up even more. Meanwhile he is using that money to pay off the debt on a previous project which is usually pennies on the dollar because he defaulted.
The key though is how he guarantees the loans he gets...he does it personally that way he can write it off his personal taxes. Meanwhile that money is also paying salaries for the people who work for him.
This is how the saga of the Chicago Trump Tower went down. Not only did he get the loan from Deutsche but also a hedge fund. He ended up screwing them both over then Kushner got Trump another loan from a different department at Deutsche (cause they said they were done with him) which he used to make payments on the original loan. He also sued them to delay default. And since he personally guaranteed everything he wrote the whole thing off his personal taxes.
Now I only stayed at a Holiday Inn last night but I think what is going to screw him over (if they get him) is the entanglement of his personal and organizational finances. There is no way he didn't screw that up because he doesn't have the attention to detail and he won't pay what it costs for others to do it right either. He believes it is a smarter investment to throw your money at suing those that go after you for twice the price (because of the publicity) than to do it right because doing it right means he doesn't get everything he wants.
Now the interesting thing is Deutsche turned over Trumps financials to the prosecutors last year. Deutsche is going to do everything they can to avoid the coming prison rape over money laundering and their shady *** deals with Kushner and Trump are at the forefront of all that.
I don't know how accurate this is but it's so much fun I am accepting it all as gospel truth.
The only thing I don't get is why would anybody legitimate ever do business with him? It's a pain, if anything goes wrong he'll sue you, you probably will never get paid. I get that recently he was just laundering money for oligarchs but before that actual banks, who are supposed to know things, lent him money. WHY?