The owner, Jeffrey Loria, is a jewish art collector art from New York who bought the Expos in 1999 at a quarter of their price as a gift to his son in law David Samson. He couldn't get montrealer's bucks to build him a new stadium so he sold them to the league for 120 million bucks, they became the Washington Nationals and then the league sold him the Marlins for 158 milions but with a 38.5 million no-interest loan from MLB.