The most suspect thing about this story is that "owners" don't manage player or faculty rooming lists at training camp. That doesn't make any sense to me.
If he was a personal assistant for benson was he being booked by the team? I mean maybe another one of bensons assistants booked the spot? I can't believe that they wouldn't just give the dude a company credit card to book his travel anyway. Although I've never been an assistant for the super rich.