Louisiana staged accidents

A new indictment in the staged accident scam in Louisiana charges a disbarred lawyer and another man with participating in the murder of a cooperating witness who was gunned down in his home in 2020.

The superseding indictment in what prosecutors have dubbed Operation Sideswipe was unsealed Friday and reported by the U.S. attorney’s office Monday. It replaces a January indictment that charged Ryan Harris, 36, also known as Red, with murdering Cornelius Garrison at his home. When that indictment...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/2-more-charged-in-death-of-louisiana-staged-accident-witness

One of the two people indicted for the shooting death of Cornelius Garrison, who was  cooperating with the investigation into the Louisiana staged accident scam, has pleaded guilty to participation in Garrison’s murder while fingering two men he says are the actual shooter and the disbarred lawyer who directed it to occur.

In a bombshell guilty plea reported Thursday by the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana, Ryan Harris, 36, who is known as Red, pleaded guilty in a superseding...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/louisiana-staged-accident-murder-harris-pleads-guilty-but-fingers-others-for-the-shooting

A man and woman have been indicted by a federal grand jury and charged with the murder of Cornelius Garrison, a conspirator in the Louisiana staged accident scam who was gunned down in his home days after he was indicted for his participation in what prosecutors have dubbed “Operation Sideswipe.”

Garrison was killed in his New Orleans home on September 22, 2020, four days after he was indicted in the scheme to stage collisions with trucks (and in one case a bus) with the goal of prying insurance...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/pair-indicted-for-murder-of-louisiana-staged-accident-schemer-who-was-cooperating

The one attorney involved in the Louisiana staged truck accident scheme who was indicted and subsequently pleaded guilty still does not know his fate.

Danny Keating was to be sentenced Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana, but it has been postponed.

Sentencing has also been put on hold for Damian Labeaud, the on-the-ground ringleader who choreographed the collisions between cars full of individuals and (mostly) trucks.

Keating’s sentencing is now set for July...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/sentencing-of-attorney-in-louisiana-truck-accident-scam-delayed-again

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The doubleheader sentencing of two of the highest-profile men involved in the Louisiana staged truck...

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Thursday was going to be a big day in the history of the Louisiana staged accident case: A ringleader was going to be sentenced.

But that has been pushed to Dec. 7, when now two key players in the scam are to learn their sentences.

Damian Labeaud, who court documents show directed much of the on-the-ground planning for the staged collisions with trucks in the New Orleans area, was to be sentenced in U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana. 

The latest sentencing delay is the...

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Seven defendants have been sentenced this month in the Louisiana staged accident scam, but none of...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/7-more-sentenced-in-louisiana-truck-collision-insurance-scam-this-month

Three participants in the Louisiana staged accident scam received sentences of probation but no jail time late last week.

Additionally, the three were sentenced on charges of conspiracy to commit wire fraud. All other defendants in the case who pleaded guilty were indicted on charges of mail fraud.

The three defendants sentenced were Lucinda Thomas, 67; Mary Wade, 58; and Judy Williams, 62.

But a statement from the office of the U.S. attorney for Louisiana’s Eastern District, Duane Evans, also...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/no-jail-in-latest-sentencing-for-louisiana-staged-accident-scam