A man who was indicted for his role in a staged accident scheme has been killed. His defense attorney claims that he was murdered to prevent him from sharing information with authorities.
On Friday, Conelius Garrison was indicted on charges as part of an ongoing joint police and FBI investigation. On Monday, Garrison told his attorney that he was scared for his safety. On Tuesday he was dead.
Garrison was a “slammer” in the New Orleans staged accident ring. Garrison and others would pile into cars, pull in front of tractor-trailers, and then slam on the brakes. An attorney, known in the indictment documents as ‘Attorney A’ paid Garrison and others an up-front fee to stage the accidents, then shared the legal payouts with them as well.
‘Attorney A’ allegedly sent the injured conspirators to a doctor who would perform unnecessary surgeries to drive up the amount of money that they could get from a legal settlement.
While no information has been officially shared by law enforcement yet, KHOU11 reports that multiple sources confirmed that Garrison had been cooperating with the FBI and U.S. Attorney’s Office for months.
The investigation has led to the indictment of at least 28 defendants and at least seven guilty plea agreements. Defendants in the case include lawyers and at least one doctor.
“He’s indicted Friday afternoon and less than a week later, he’s murdered,” Garrison’s attorney, Claude Kelly said. “You have to be the village idiot not to see the connection.”
In an extremely rare turn of events, the FBI has joined the New Orleans Police Department in investigating Garrison’s death.
“I’m really disturbed about what happened to Cornelius,” Kelly told reporters. “All I can say is I hope they nail whoever did this.”
Source: ttnews, freightwaves, wwltv, radio, khou
Nothing new, America has become the most corrupt country in the world, look at our politicians, the get elected while poor and become millionaires stealing from us, America is worst than any third world country and people keep voting for the same politicians over and over again.
That’s why I quit voting 😉
Listen: it is part of your fall because YOU DON’T VOTE if you did your due diligence on finding the right Candidate you would find that who you would trust or not trust in being a representative for your area check his back round (do not look to the media for help) if you can talk to him/her and ask hard questions that is from local to state to federal elections and tell others about it if you can not do it yourself think about it you will feel better about it because then you will know exactly who to vote for good luck I wish the best for you
When the options are all terrible, no amount of voting makes them good. All it does is make you a participant in the system that doesn’t serve you. It’s a little like whipping yourself for your sins, as defined by a religion that you didn’t choose.
For many people, not voting is the only form of protest that is available to them. It’s not as though your over OTR trucker is going to be able to attend meetings or conferences, much less run for office…
and people keep voting for the same politicians over and over again.
…er..what was the definition of insane? Doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results?
The vast majority of eligible voters vote against everybody. Since that’s not a ballot option, they do so by staying home.
Most of the voters who actually vote, are still voting against the other guy, and not voting for the person whose name they select.
Elections have become about hiring the candidate who is least terrible, and so the way to stay in office is to make sure that only the worst candidates ever run against you – or no one, at all, as is often the case in gerrymandered places. In any other job, if you can’t find a qualified candidate, you leave the position vacant… except elected office. Maybe we should make that an option. If you can’t get 10% of the registered voters to vote for the winning candidate, leave the office empty because 90% of registered voters didn’t want the “winner” in the office.
It’ll never happen, but it more accurately reflects what is really happening, in elections, than the idea that the same people keep getting re-elected. They aren’t. There just aren’t any better alternative options, and somebody always has to “win”.
Yes I keep wondering how a bigot like Nancy P has stayed in office so long time to mandate retirement for congress to 70 years of age.
Or 60
I have heard from some of the older boys, that she was “party nancy” in the past, and has a 40′ Miller fruit trailer full of all kinds of dirt about her “collegues”.
its sad that people are doing this in order to sustain themselves.
its high priced bully.
The smart guys are having trouble making a living in legitimate businesses! In my city I over heard three lawyers crying over the future impact of self driving cars since the 200k per year income for. Dui’s is about to dissapper!
Yep – and then there’s drivers like me who was hit head on by a 4-wheeler. Out of business and cannot get justice for my losses because I’m the commercial driver. The laws are set against us.
Amen
Orland and Max. Please explain what in the world your comments have to do with this article?
Good point. I’ve been sucked in by a troll… Arguably, twice, since this post has nothing to do with the article, either… :-/
You’ve pointed out our problem. Sheeple unable to reason back to cause. Lawyers should be prohibited from legislative office. We are being killed by laws by lawyers for lawyers against US. Every law we’ve got has been perverted by lawyers because lawyers voting on any law is a conflict of interest. One GREAT day we’ll be back to God’s simple concise laws.
Nothing
I’ve said this before and i’ll say it again , No Such Thing As Justice , There’s Just Us ! So truckers fight back !
Does this mean we need a convoy?
Every body making money but the drivers. It always been that way.(when they kill Jimmy Hoffman the the hope for better pay,respect.
Jimmy Hoffa!
Not Hoffman.
Good! I hope all of them end up dead!
Good! I hope all of them end up dead!
Damn crooks
If it is possible, all our elected officials in state and federal offices should be on term limits. HOW AND WHERE DO WE GET THIS STARTED?
Convention of States,look it up,we need more states to join,sign the petition.
The only way term limits work, is if elected officials get retirement when their term is up. Do you want to pay for their pensions and health benefits for the rest of their lives? How many more politicians get these benefits if two terms is the limit, versus ten?
Damned lawyers….
Nancy Pelosi used to be the deceased Jim Jones girl friend she handled all his money that he ripped off during his so called cult group. Turned him in after she fled with the goods. All those people died not just from kool aide. More died than was told.
Hmmm dead people more dangerous on the other side can reach out and touch someone. Are you not afraid?
There’s a petition on line to limit terms of elected officials, as I understand it ( I’m no legal scholar). If signatures meet the required amount,then our law makers have to pass a law to limit the terms. Along with any other petition that gets the required amount of signatures.If this is true, why not , have the pension removed also ?
CONVOY?????? I’m IN…..
And they want to raise insurance limits???? How will this not increase the amount of cases like this?
Just knew there was someone who wanted to go first. Where’s rubber ducky