Four more admit staging $4.7 million vehicle accident in New Orleans

Four more defendants pleaded guilty Thursday in a conspiracy to stage a New Orleans vehicle accident for $4.7 million in insurance payouts.
That brings to 15 the number of people, out of 33 defendants, who have admitted guilt in a wide-ranging federal investigation of drivers, passengers, other accomplices and a lawyer accused of intentionally crashing vehicles into tractor-trailer rigs.
2015 wreck begat $4.7 million payoff for attorneys, defendants, grand jury says
The latest are Anthony Robinson, 67, Audrey Harris, 53, Jerry Schaffer, 66, and Keishira Robinson, 26, who pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit mail fraud.
Prosecutors said Harris, Schaeffer and Keishira Robinson were riding in a vehicle owned by Anthony Robinson when its driver, Roderick Hickman, steered it into a tractor trailer on Oct. 13, 2015, at Alvar Street and France Road. Hickman, known as a "slammer," hopped out and entered another vehicle driven by Damian Labeaud, a "spotter." Anthony Robinson exited Labeaud's vehicle, got behind the wheel of the wrecked vehicle and told police he had been driving it at the time of the wreck.

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