A top adviser to President-elect Donald Trump allegedly tried to take advantage of his relationship with the new administration, asking potential appointees for large retention fees in exchange for promoting them to plum jobs, according to multiple reports Monday.

An internal investigation by Trump’s own lawyers concluded that Boris Epshteyn — a longtime aide who coordinated Trump’s criminal defense in recent years — had asked at least two people for the monthly payments. One of those people was Scott Bessent, a billionaire hedge fund manager who was recently named to be the next Treasury Secretary.

The Washington Post notes that Epshteyn invited Bessent to lunch at a Palm Beach hotel in February, where he asked him to pay a monthly stipend of at least $30,000 to promote his reputation around Trump’s Mar-a-Lago club in Florida. Bessent, gunning for the Treasury job, declined, but Epshteyn later asked him to invest $10 million in a basketball league. Bessent also rejected that overture.

Later, Bessent told Trump’s lawyers that he believed he was criticized to them in the president-elect’s circuit after the November election. Epshteyn, reports The New York Times, told the billionaire it was “too late” for him to be hired for a cabinet position, while reportedly calling himself “Boris Fucking Epshteyn.”

The pair also had a heated confrontation in the lobby at Mar-a-Lago last week, CNN added.

Epshteyn has denied the allegations.

“I am honored to work for President Trump and with his team,” he said in a statement to the media. “These false allegations are false and defamatory and will not distract us from Making America Great Again.”

However, The Times continued with further accusations. Another person included in the report prepared by Trump’s lawyers was a defense contractor who told them that Epshteyn was asking for $100,000 a month during the ongoing transition. The report said the contractor felt hiring the man was “do or die” for their prospects.

They did not hire him and feared some form of retaliation, the report states.

A third person — former Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens (R) — also submitted a statement to Trump’s transition team saying he felt the same way about his own dealings with Epshteyn.

“Mr. Epshteyn’s overall tone and demeanor gave me the impression of an implicit expectation to engage in business with him before he would endorse or propose my appointment to the presidency,” Greitens wrote, according to reports from Just the News and CBS News.

The document concluded with conclusions that Epshteyn should no longer be so close to the Trump orbit. It is unclear what will be done.

Steven Cheung, a spokesman for the president-elect, said the review was “standard practice” on Monday and said it was now complete.

“We now move forward together as a team to help President Trump make America great again,” Cheung said.