They probably need it to cover bail.
The other funny thing:
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Blackstone, which in April sold Extended Stay America, a budget business hotel chain, to Lightstone, a real estate investment group, for $8bn, already had global assets totalling 100,000 rooms.
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So, Blackstone sold something to Lightstone. Yeah... that doesn't sound like some form of collusion or a very strange coincidence!!