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New Orleans's Car-Crash Conspiracy

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Re: New Orleans's Car-Crash Conspiracy

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Post by JumpCrisscross »

bonsai_spool wrote: post #19
JumpCrisscross wrote: post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> the FBI got this man killed with a sloppy indictment How do we know that’s how they discovered Garrison was cooperating?

Garrison was killed four days after the indictment was released. From the text: > On September 18, 2020, the Justice Department unsealed a seven-count indictment charging Garrison with “staging over fifty accidents.” Alfortish and Motta weren’t indicted or named in the document, but they were described, respectively, as “Co-Conspirator A” and “Attorney B.” Garrison’s coöperation with the F.B.I. wasn’t referenced in t…

Oof. Thank you.

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themafia wrote: post #4

> and today’s large trucks are so computerized that they operate almost like airplanes Nonsense. Almost no vehicle even comes with anything like this installed. Some carriers will add driver monitoring computers, and they will emit tones under certain conditions, hard breaking, lane departure, too little following distance; however, to compare these simple alerts to the level of automation in an aircraft is just daff…

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randycupertino wrote: post #3

Note the owner of the auto body shop and alleged leader of the fraud ring was indicted for murdering one of his co-conspirators who flipped and was becoming a witness: https://www.wwltv.com/article/news/local/witness-in-louisian... > Ryan Harris and Jovanna Gardner were indicted Monday for witness tampering through murder and conspiracy to retaliate against a witness through murder in addition to mail and wire fraud…

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Post by shreveport »

wmf wrote: post #15
hydrogen7800 wrote: post #11

Interesting read. This may be unfair to Louisiana based on this case, but I've heard the USA described as a federation of a bunch of states and some 3rd world countries.

I've read about similar fraud rings in Los Angeles and Brooklyn.

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Post by chrisgd »

JumpCrisscross wrote: post #17
vablings wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It really feels like the FBI got this man killed with a sloppy indictment. The fact that information that only could have come from Garrison was directly the reason he was executed

> the FBI got this man killed with a sloppy indictment How do we know that’s how they discovered Garrison was cooperating?

It’s implied in the article

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Post by selimthegrim »

shreveport wrote: post #23
randycupertino wrote: post #3

Note the owner of the auto body shop and alleged leader of the fraud ring was indicted for murdering one of his co-conspirators who flipped and was becoming a witness: https://www.wwltv.com/article/news/local/witness-in-louisian... > Ryan Harris and Jovanna Gardner were indicted Monday for witness tampering through murder and conspiracy to retaliate against a witness through murder in addition to mail and wire fraud…

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Wrong part of Louisiana

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Post by fortran77 »

The "three people in car" is a very useful tell for criminal activity. I've seen in home burglar rings (one driver, one lookout, and one person to enter the home), catalytic converter thieves (driver, lookout, and "saw man"), etc. Not sure why they need the same patter of three here, but I guess one person will be the one who goes to the hospital, etc.

It's like they all read the same "criminal" forums to learn techniques. From the article:

> Garrison would later recall, for example, that Alfortish had cautioned him to limit the number of passengers to three, because four might raise “red flags.”

In any event, given the extreme danger of a crime like this, the penalties should be more like that of a kidnapping (e.g., life in prison) and not just the 6 months suspended they'll see for insurance fraud. But that would never happen in Louisiana.

The New Yorker was refreshingly frank in this piece. I expected them to tap dance around several things they hit head on.

It's also a good reminder that in this day and age 360 degree dashcams are a must. If I were a professional truck driver, I'd have a bodycam, too.

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