A 20-year-old murder warrant and fraud within a horse-racing industry association are among a fresh batch of evidence that federal prosecutors are asking a judge to allow into the next blockbuster trial in New Orleans’ staged accidents saga.
At issue in a 55-page government filing last week is whether prosecutors can reveal to a jury elements of the criminal biographies of Sean Alfortish, a disbarred lawyer accused of orchestrating the crash scheme from the top, and Leon “Chunky” Parker, the man Alfortish allegedly paid to gun down a conspirator, Cornelius Garrison III.
U.S. District Judge Wendy Vetter has set an August trial date for Alfortish and Parker over Garrison’s murder and fraud, in what would culminate a yearslong probe dubbed “Operation Sideswipe” that has brought dozens of convictions, including of two injury lawyers last month…