Highway robbery | Three more plead guilty as years-long federal investigation into staged accident winds down
The three defendants are scheduled to be sentenced on Apr. 10.
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The three defendants are scheduled to be sentenced on Apr. 10.
Three more New Orleans-area defendants pleaded guilty this week for roles as passengers in a high-stakes scheme to crash vehicles into big rigs for hefty insurance payouts.
More than four year after the first indictments, some legal observers doubt that more lawyers, or any doctors, will face charges.
As a massive federal fraud case wraps up with mostly low-level defendants, the anticipated car insurance savings La. drivers fails to materialize.
In the end, millions of dollars in fraudulent insurance claims were paid out. Some defendants confessed to getting unnecessary surgeries to increase their payday.