Connect the dots. I've written in detail about this and I'm too tired to try and find it. The timeline of events and the unscrupulous players involved who profited from thisd tells the true story. Lerner convinced Art that unless he took Baltimores offer, that he would go belly up. He then told Art that he would fly with Art to Baltimore on his own plane...then on the tarmac, he backed out and put Art on the plane alone. Et Te Brute.