Jasper Maximov is new to the New Orleans Specters so they don't know yet they can't trust him with money, especially large quantities of it.

For him, the logical association with specters is "ghosts" so he invested all the show's budget on making sure there were more ghosts in the arena than there were people. He called up the dudes from the ghost chasers tv show and asked them to summon spirits at the Specters' arena. Obviously, it's all bullshit and they took his money knowing full well they couldn't deliver on what they promised, because ghosts aren't real. Instead they made sure to spend the cash making sure the lights would flicker in menacing ways or that the water dispensers (whatever they're called) would malfunction and look like they were possessed by evil spirits. They used as little money from the budget as they could to pocket the rest so the Specters' arena is screwed for years to come.