3 Sentenced in Big Insurance Fraud Scheme to Stage Crashes

NEW ORLEANS (AP) — Three Louisiana ladies have been ordered to repay a complete of $5.5 million to firms defrauded in a scheme to stage wrecks.

Keishira Richardson, 27, Chandrika Brown, 31, and Aisha Thompson, 44, are amongst 36 folks convicted to this point in what authorities have known as “Operation Sideswipe,” information releases stated.

Every was sentenced Wednesday on one rely every of conspiracy to commit mail fraud.

Richardson was sentenced to 5 years on probation and ordered to pay $4.7 million in restitution. That’s the overall paid to settle claims made by her and others for one crash staged on Oct 13, 2015.

Richardson’s father, Anthony Robinson, and his spouse, Audrey Harris, have been every sentenced in June to 4 years in jail on the identical cost for that crash. They each underwent in depth medical therapy, neck and again surgical procedures, as a result of they “understood that agreeing to extra medical therapy would improve the worth of their lawsuit,” in line with a information launch about their sentence.

U.S. District Decide Ivan Lemelle, who additionally sentenced Keishira Robinson, advised her father and Harris that they and their codefendants could be liable for paying $5 million together with the businesses’ attorneys charges.

U.S. District Decide Sarah S. Vance sentenced Thompson to 18 months in jail and restitution of $677,500 — the overall paid in claims to a number of folks concerned in a crash with a tour bus on Oct. 15, 2015.

Vance ordered Brown to place in 100 hours neighborhood service and pay $121,000 restitution. Though Brown wasn’t in a RAV4 that hit a tractor-trailer on Sept. 6, 2017, she employed a lawyer, put in a declare for accidents and acquired medical therapy, a information launch stated.

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