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 aplot of murder and insurance fraud that launches him toward the roiling underworld from which prosperity had shielded him.
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 amurderplot called Operation Jupiter.