The only attorney to plead guilty to charges from an investigation into staged vehicle crashes involving big-rig trucks on New Orleans roadways, called “Operation Sideswipe,” was sentenced Thursday to federal prison.
U.S. District Judge Nannette Jolivette Brown sentenced Danny Patrick Keating Jr. to 32 months in federal prison, followed by three years of supervised release.
Keating’s sentence came more than five years after he pleaded guilty in New Orleans’ federal courthouse to a wire and mail fraud conspiracy…