But for the last 23 years, I've been bringing cases largely pro bono, sometimes for significantly reduced fees, you know, to pay expenses or that sort of thing for disadvantaged communities. So We sued on behalf of public housing citywide, for the public housing communities, because there were serious issues with lead paint and kids were getting sick and it was toxic and the city was doing nothing about it. And we won an injunction to get lead inspections. And at that time, Andrew Cuomo was sufficiently moved by what we exposed that he injected $250 million and declared a … (17:59–18:14)
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