Sr. was supplying the dough. Via Rainbow coalition via Goldman Sachs et al. Affirmative action at work.
I doubt it. Doesn’t Jr. own the Budweiser distributorship for Chicago? I think Jr. supplied the dough and was smart enough to let someone else do the bidding. Maybe that someone else was his pop. Maybe his pop was bidding, in general, for some kind of payoff or finders fee.