Danny Keating, an attorney who was one of the masterminds of the Louisiana staged accident scam, was sentenced Thursday to 32 months in federal prison.
Keating’s sentence will be followed by three years of supervised release. He also must pay $657,405.34 in restitution.
Keating was one of the most significant participants in what prosecutors in the office of the U.S. Attorney for Eastern Louisiana dubbed “Operation Sideswipe,” the intentional collisions in the New Orleans area between cars full of participants in the scheme and other vehicles that were usually tractor trailers…