> Gateway didn't know what the f to do with what they had bought.

Of course they did. They wanted it just for the patents.

http://translate.google.com/translate?sl=de&tl=en&u=http://www.amiga-news.de/de/news/AN-2016-05-00050-DE.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fStICmcjK9k

And these turned out to be really useful for Gateway between 2004 and 2006:

http://morph.zone/modules/newbb_plus/viewtopic.php?forum=3&topic_id=7509&start=15

> that money was probably borrowed from unwitting investors

Yes, that's a known fact.

http://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2001-01-00258-EN.html
https://sites.google.com/site/amigadocuments/#TOC-1998-1999:-Gateway-Scraps-Amiga-Brand
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentti_Kouri

> thinking they were going to get the next coming of Jesus in silicon.

Amiga Inc. was about software, not hardware ;-)