With money tight, many potential yacht owners couldn't secure loans or had second thoughts about buying a yacht in the first place, which meant that Trinity Yachts was having a hard time meeting its payroll and paying suppliers.

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"I don't want to leave Manhattan, even when I'm gone, " Koch told The Associated Press in 2008 after purchasing a burial plot in Trinity Church Cemetery, at the time the only graveyard in Manhattan that still had space.

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Wigan recovered from a half-time deficit to pound Wakefield Trinity in an 11-try victory, including two hat-tricks.

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