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Ummo Bruns
January 09, 2017 at 4:16 pmMr Daggett made an interesting comment whilst visiting European ports in the 90s of the last century, when asked by a journalist on the waterfront situation in NY harbour: ” I can wallpaper my whole basement with subpoenas, if I wished”. Did anything change…..!?