I'm still convinced that after his financial mismanagement of the Club & MIH, combined with the Banking crisis SDM desperately tried to find a buyer for Rangers to no avail. Despite his public soundbytes I think he was convinced they'd lose the BTC and brought in Whyte with his "distressed Companies" expertese to carry out the rebirth of Rangers.......what we've seen over the last 2+ years is just various parties getting their money back for doing the dirty deed of liquidating the old Rangers.
Given how desperately the SPL/Doncaster/Regan & certain media outlets acted in trying to have the Newco expedited into the top league I wouldn't be surprised if there was some contrition at these levels too.