You know, corporations, construction firms that were taking advantage of people, literally not paying them. And one of the things that we did is We went in, we investigated, we recouped the money. and one of the great things was to just bring the people in who had worked on construction projects for the most part years before, owed something like 25, $50,000. (42:43–42:47)
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