When, in the backwash of the 1929 Wall Street crash, his business (whose employees are all clad in chocolate-box lilac) suffers a downturn, he concocts a plot of murder and insurance fraud that launches him toward the roiling underworld from which prosperity had shielded him.

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But Milke offered a vastly different view of the interrogation and denied that she had confessed to any role in a murder plot.

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Estrada dismisses the allegations as "desperation on the part of the administration" and counters with his own conspiracy theory that he is the target of a murder plot called Operation Jupiter.

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In the predawn hours before the attack, he called his police handler, met him near the Temple Under a Big Tree, and told him about the murder plot and about Siu.

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Mr. Velez's attorney, Damien Brown, said his client has maintained he knew nothing of the plot, but Mr. Taub told the jury the driver became an accomplice to murder when he asked for a cut of the proceeds after learning of the robbery plan, agreed to be a lookout, then fled.

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