Sixth Defendant Pleads Guilty in New Orleans Staged Accident Case

A New Orleans man has pleaded guilty in a case involving staged accidents between automobiles and tractor-trailers in that city, the U.S. Attorney’s office announced.

Mario Solomon, 48, a entered a guilty plea on May 28 to a charge of Conspiracy to Commit Wire Fraud. The U.S. Attorney’s office said Solomon, his co-conspirators and others, beginning in approximately June 2017 and continuing through the present, conspired to commit wire fraud in connection with staged accidents, including two that occurred on June 6, 2017, and June 12, 2017.