I don't think he knew what he was getting into, to be honest - similar appears to have happened with Koukash at Salford.

At that first meeting, someone asked if he had the funds to run a Superleague club and he brushed it off as "easy, no problem."

Not sure but wasn't Elston's wife one of the highest earners at the club at the time.

I understood at the time that she was charging the club for the dancers on match days.

Reading this thread makes me think of those characters with 'champagne taste lemonade money'.
Usually then the hard working and honest suffer as a consequence of their greed.
Good to see some justice on this occasion.