 The bulk of the mortgage had been previously sold in the CMBS market and the remaining $285 million balance had been syndicated to firms specializing in subordinated debt including AREA Property Partners, Starwood Capital Group, Colony Capital and Paramount Group.Colony Capital founder Thomas J. Barrack Jr. later claimed Donald Trump personally called him to set up a meeting with Jared Kushner to invest $45 million in the building's distressed debt.Further reports indicated that Jared Kushner had complained to his wife Ivanka Trump about Barrack pressuring him on the debt and that she had asked her father Donald Trump to set up a meeting.