NEW ORLEANS: A man under federal investigation for alleged involvement in a scheme to stage expensive car crashes was shot to death inside a New Orleans apartment, according to his lawyer.
Cornelius Garrison, 54, was found dead Tuesday, four days after the U.S. Attorneys Office in New Orleans accused him of staging crashes with tractor-trailers in exchange for $150,000, The Times-Picayune/The New Orleans Advocate quoted Claude Kelly, the federal public defender representing Garrison, as saying.
The indictment Friday alleged Garrison was the driver in more than 50 of the wrecks, mostly along Interstate 10 from Slidell to Baton Rouge, in which other defendants would act as passengers, intentionally causing accidents with trucks that were changing lanes.
The crashes cost drivers hundreds of thousands of dollars in…