Re-read that seattle times article.
Kent needed a sponsor to promise money in order for construciton to be approved. Once construction was approved, the city could vote to continue construction EVEN IF the sponsor backed out. That means that Kent just needed ANY promise to get the construciton going.
It's very likely that Kent knew this would be the outcome all along and witheld the truth a bit to get construction under way. The article even says that the city council knew more about Amiga than was let on and that they voted a week ago to proceed with construction even if Amiga backed out.
Kent used Amiga to force construction of a building that would not have been approved without a backer.
So to ask the most relevant question:
Did Amiga get anything from this deal?
It may sound farfetched, but the only really good organized crime in Washington State is in the construction business. It's not unheard of for this sort of crime to use a city council as a o between.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colacurcio_crime_family
