Louisiana staged accident murder: Harris pleads guilty but fingers others for the shooting

One of the two people indicted for the shooting death of Cornelius Garrison, who was  cooperating with the investigation into the Louisiana staged accident scam, has pleaded guilty to participation in Garrison’s murder while fingering two men he says are the actual shooter and the disbarred lawyer who directed it to occur.

In a bombshell guilty plea reported Thursday by the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Louisiana, Ryan Harris, 36, who is known as Red, pleaded guilty in a superseding indictment that replaced an earlier pair of charges against him. The original indictment for murder was in May.

The original indictment charged Harris and his girlfriend with the murder of Garrison. (His co-defendant, Jovanna Gardner, was later found to be only tangentially involved in Garrison’s death. Her case was disposed of with a guilty plea to witness tampering).

Harris’ guilty pleas were for two counts related to mail and wire fraud, the same charges leveled against all the individuals involved in the staged accident scam, and causing death through the use of a firearm.

However,  it is the Statement of Facts filed in connection with the guilty plea, also known as the proffer, that provide detail on Garrison’s death, at least as the U.S. Attorney sees it based on the cooperation of witnesses. And while what’s in the proffer may be sensational, it has not yet led t…

CONTINUE READING THE ARTICLE FROM FreightWaves HERE