Location: Public Records building
Mali scratched her chin with her good hand and hmmmed as she thought over Relic's question. Her eyes were focused directly on the papers before her rather than looking upwards, an indicator that she probably wasn't trying to recall some hidden information.
"Again, not my field of expertise, American History. I only know a bit more about than what was taught in high school, and even then I'm not sure how much knowledge I retain about the Prohibition. But if I were to make an educated guess I would have to say that use of sewer tunnels probably wasn't a tactic utilized in the Prohibition. At least not for my building. Depending on when exactly the building was built, it would have been completed either just before the 18th Amendment was repealed or even years after the fact. By the 30s the Prohibition and Volstead Act were both really unpopular bills and people would have known about the Amendment ahead of time and prepared accordingly."
"Furthermore, you have to think about the historical context of both the city of Justice as a whole and Boston Heights. I can't claim to be familiar with the area, but even if Justice was still a cesspool back then and that particular part of the city was as bad as the Deadlight District is now, I don't think smuggler's would use a newly built building for any sort of smuggling. When a building is new is when there's going to be the most people hanging around it. Too visible. Unless you can find the exact date of construction and trace the shell company that made it to some mafia crime boss, I don't see that connection being a thing. Besides, I don't think the sewers would be used by bootleggers in the first place. Too constrained. Harder to evade police. More difficult to transport booze." In the back of Mali's mind, a little voice called out that it dearly missed booze before it was promptly silenced like a rebel in the Soviet Union.
