Ross, back then, was involved in handling bankruptcies for high profile businesses.
He was handling the Tag Mahal bankruptcy FOR the shareholders, but ended up also helping Trump survive his bankruptcy.
Wilbur Ross became rich investing in faltering businesses like steel mills and coal mines, finding a fortune in blue-collar industries that others dismissed as beyond saving.
But before he was scooping up Rust Belt factories, the banker was sizing up another troubled asset: Donald Trump. More than two decades ago, Ross represented bondholders who were gunning for Trump after he failed to pay back the high-interest loans he had taken out to build his casino empire.
When Ross arrived in Atlantic City, N.J., for negotiations in 1990, he found a throng of journalists and curious onlookers eager to catch a glimpse of Trump, according to "The Vulture Investors," by Hilary Rosenberg. For the quiet Ross, the scene inspired a revelation: Trump's flashy image had resilience.
Ross embarked on a strategy that helped Trump avoid a personal bankruptcy that could have derailed his unlikely trajectory from real-estate mogul to reality television star to president-elect.
Another article about the same thing:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/chasewithorn/2016/12/08/trump-and-his-commerce-secretary-wilbur-ross-a-look-at-25-years-of-connections/#769f5582f820
The monthly figure was in one of the several trump books I have read, I think it was by Tim O'Brien.
TrumpNation: The Art of Being the Donald
https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-wilbur-ross-commerce-20161208-story.html
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