{"id":31593,"date":"2025-01-26T10:35:21","date_gmt":"2025-01-26T10:35:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/26\/new-orleans-murder-defendant-alleges-his-lawyers-fiance-set-up-the-killing\/"},"modified":"2025-01-26T10:35:21","modified_gmt":"2025-01-26T10:35:21","slug":"new-orleans-murder-defendant-alleges-his-lawyers-fiance-set-up-the-killing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/26\/new-orleans-murder-defendant-alleges-his-lawyers-fiance-set-up-the-killing\/","title":{"rendered":"New Orleans murder defendant alleges his lawyer\u2019s fiance set up the killing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Witness in fraud case was allegedly killed in a scheme set up by the fiance of a former stuntwoman turned attorney<\/p>\n<p>In a blockbuster development in a long-running case that exposed a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/dec\/09\/new-orleans-law-firms-staging-accidents-settlements\"> multimillion-dollar staged-accident fraud scheme<\/a>, a man linked to the murder of a key federal witness recently pleaded guilty \u2013 and alleged that his attorney\u2019s fiance, a disbarred lawyer, set up the killing.<\/p>\n<p>With his family looking on, Ryan \u201cRed\u201d Harris agreed to a 35-year sentence in the murder in exchange for his cooperation in the massive case, which has led to more than 50 guilty pleas by people who admitted to intentionally ramming into 18-wheel trucks then collecting money from fraudulent lawsuits.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jan\/26\/new-orleans-murder-lawyer-fiance\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Witness in fraud case was allegedly killed in a scheme set up by the fiance of a former stuntwoman turned attorney In a blockbuster development in a long-running case that exposed a multimillion-dollar staged-accident fraud scheme, a man linked to the murder of a key federal witness recently pleaded guilty \u2013 and alleged that his &#8230; <a title=\"New Orleans murder defendant alleges his lawyer\u2019s fiance set up the killing\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/26\/new-orleans-murder-defendant-alleges-his-lawyers-fiance-set-up-the-killing\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about New Orleans murder defendant alleges his lawyer\u2019s fiance set up the killing\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}