Robert Ullman is the unscrupulous head of a pyramid scheme selling Fountain of Youth Elixir, a facial cream. As he recruits more and more people to sell the Fountain of Youth Elixir, he skims part of the profits off each sale and keeps that money for himself. Ullman dies of monocaine poisoning during a stage infomercial interview on the Straight Scoop television program (apparently a consumer reports
type of program) after swindling several of his salespeople out of their earnings. One salesman that he swindled is Hal Simpson, who still has eight thousand dollars worth of useless products in his possession because he apparently didn't have a good salesman's killer instinct. Poor Hal gets blamed for Ullman's murder. (Considering what a lowlife Ullman is, the police should have thanked Hal, not arrested him. But I digress.) Ben takes the case despite Hal's lack of funds. Judge Irene Sawyer presides over the courtroom.
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