Both are charged in a wide-ranging federal indictment and are accused of filing false insurance claims for people involved in ...

A disbarred New Orleans attorney dropped his opposition to remaining jailed before trial in a blockbuster federal ...

NEW ORLEANS — In a dramatic development in federal court Wednesday, one of the nine new defendants in the massive federal case that exposed multimillion dollar staged accident fraud and later exploded ...

A former stuntwoman used her professional skills to fake a number of car crashes and file insurance claims, according to an ...

Since 2023, seven babies in the neonatal intensive care unit of a Richmond hospital have suffered unexplained fractures and ...

Stuntwoman-turned-lawyer Vanessa Motta is accused of filing fraudulent insurance claims after staged 18-wheeler crashes in an ...

After she and others became aware of an investigation into the scheme, the defendants allegedly committed various acts of ...

Vanessa Motta (pictured), 43, has been charged for her role in an alleged scheme to stage car crashes for insurance payouts.

Federal prosecutors place attorneys Vanessa Motta and Jason Giles near the center of a criminal scheme that they say led to ...