realest...you got some facts mixed up here..
It was, (is?) the Royal Arkansas Hotel that was indebted with 600k ...NOT Becker personally. He overcharged the credit cards to pay the employee's payroll NOT his own. BIG difference??
Although Becker is a partner of the Hotel, it is the Hotel not Becker personally that owed back taxes, construction bills, payroll , which accumulated to over 600k
AND I have my stroooong doubt that Hayter and co. did not know about the Hotel's financial difficulties.
Remember the PR about selling the Hotel? just 4 weeks before they supposedly discovered the credit card fraud.
You really believe that Becker did not tell his 51% partner that they need to come up with 600k $ for unpaid bills???