Attorney sentenced for role in staged-crash scheme targeting trucks
A New Orleans attorney will serve prison time and pay more than $650K in restitution for helping coordinate staged crashes. Also...
Danny Patrick Keating Jr., 57 of New Orleans, was sentenced on Oct. 15 for his role in a staged-accident scheme targeting tractor-trailers and their insurers around the New Orleans area.
Keating was sentenced for Conspiracy to Commit Mail and Wire Fraud and will serve 32 months in prison followed by three years of supervised release. He is also required to pay $657,405.34 in restitution and pay a $100 mandatory special assessment fee.
Keating was indicted on Nov. 5, 2020, and charged with knowingly engaging in a vast conspiracy involving the intentional staging of motor vehicle collisions with tractor-trailers and commercial vehicles in the metropolitan New Orleans area. Thus far, 63 defendants have been charged in the federal probe into the staging of such collisions.
Keating was a personal injury attorney licensed to practice law in Louisiana. At the time of his plea on June 17, 2021, he admitted he knowingly paid Damian Labeaud for 31 illegally staged tractor-trailer accidents. Keating represented 77 plaintiffs involved in the 31 accidents staged by Labeaud.
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