Billionaire muscles
Kind of like beer muscles, where some billionaires think they can walk over the little guy/people that oppose some of their plans/agenda. Some billionaires get the idea in their head that they are the hand that feeds everybody.
The guy/girl used his/her billionaire muscles to threaten to move sports teams unless people were taxed to keep them where they were (kind of like hostages). It was one of the many things a billionaire could do that others couldn't, and he/she often took advantage of it to fuck with people that he/she thought were weaker. Elite billionaires don't have to give a fuck what the little people want, they know that democracy doesn't get anybody too far when they are the ones building everything.