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This is the second episode of a two-part series about a case the FBI dubbed Operation Side Swipe.

In the previous episode, we told you about what that was.

In short, a large group of people in New Orleans, drivers, passengers, and personal injury attorneys

conspired to stage dozens of collisions with tractor trailers on the interstate.

Over the course of eight or nine years, they collected millions in insurance payouts.

A group of local defense attorneys eventually realized what was going on and alerted the feds, who opened an investigation.

That investigation resulted in a handful of indictments, targeting

mostly low-level crash participants. Many believed the personal injury attorneys were next.

That's when the story took an unexpected turn.

This is where 54-year-old Cornelius Garrison was shot and killed late Tuesday night.

Now, Garrison was indicted just four days

ago before he was gunned down. In the summer of 2020, Cornelius Garrison, a prolific crash organizer,

who was secretly cooperating with the feds, was executed on the front stoop of his mother's apartment

in New Orleans. To those following the case, the executed on the front stoop of his mother's apartment in New Orleans.

To those following the case, the motive behind the murder seemed clear.

Someone killed Cornelius to silence him.

I'm Jed Lipinski.

This is Gone South. In the last episode, we spoke with Nick Arnold, a New Orleans defense attorney who spotted the

scam early on and helped bring it to the Fed's attention.

In this one, we're going to hear from an investigative reporter who's covered the

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