{"id":69593,"date":"2026-03-20T19:02:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T00:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/20\/new-orleans-attorneys-found-guilty-in-plot-to-stage-vehicle-accidents-for-payouts\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T19:02:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T00:02:10","slug":"new-orleans-attorneys-found-guilty-in-plot-to-stage-vehicle-accidents-for-payouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/20\/new-orleans-attorneys-found-guilty-in-plot-to-stage-vehicle-accidents-for-payouts\/","title":{"rendered":"New Orleans attorneys found guilty in plot to stage vehicle accidents for payouts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Prosecutors say they paid \u2018slammers\u2019 to intentionally crash into tractor-trailers and file fraudulent lawsuits<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A federal jury in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/new-orleans\">New Orleans<\/a> has found <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/dec\/09\/new-orleans-law-firms-staging-accidents-settlements\">two personal injury attorneys<\/a> guilty of involving themselves in a scheme to stage collisions with 18-wheelers and then collect settlement payouts.<\/p>\n<p>The lawyers, Jason Giles and former Hollywood stuntwoman Vanessa Motta, were found guilty on Friday of fraud, obstruction of justice and witness tampering, local news outlets <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox8live.com\/2026\/03\/20\/federal-jury-begin-deliberations-alleged-staged-wreck-scheme-trial\/\">WVUE<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wwltv.com\/article\/news\/crime\/jury-deliberates-fate-of-2-new-orleans-attorneys-accused-in-staged-18-wheeler-crash-scheme-fraud-federal-investigation-louisiana-new-orleans\/289-f6912c5e-b1b8-4197-8ac0-595326f3b8b5\">WWL Louisiana<\/a> \u2013 a Guardian reporting partner \u2013 reported. Their law firms were convicted of related charges.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/20\/new-orleans-lawyers-guilty-accidents-payouts\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prosecutors say they paid \u2018slammers\u2019 to intentionally crash into tractor-trailers and file fraudulent lawsuits Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox A federal jury in New Orleans has found two personal injury attorneys guilty of involving themselves in a scheme to stage collisions with 18-wheelers and then &#8230; <a title=\"New Orleans attorneys found guilty in plot to stage vehicle accidents for payouts\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/20\/new-orleans-attorneys-found-guilty-in-plot-to-stage-vehicle-accidents-for-payouts\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about New Orleans attorneys found guilty in plot to stage vehicle accidents for payouts\">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-69593","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\/69593","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=69593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69593\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}