re: Motta/Giles Trial

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Such as?

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I dunno. Maybe a pudding cup or lesbian rape.

Is it any easier to catch these slammers today than it was when they first started this scam? Are people still doing this?

If one person is involved in multiple different accidents, is there a flag thrown at some point by law enforcement? For example, if a person gets in a wreck and there’s a police report, then switches insurance companies and is involved in another wreck, does the new insurance company have access to the persons prior history?

This whole thing is fascinating.

You think that happens where she's going?

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Is it any easier to catch these slammers today than it was when they first started this scam? Are people still doing this?

If one person is involved in multiple different accidents, is there a flag thrown at some point by law enforcement? For example, if a person gets in a wreck and there’s a police report, then switches insurance companies and is involved in another wreck, does the new insurance company have access to the persons prior history?

This whole thing is fascinating.

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Insurance companies share a database where they can pull a claimant’s history instantly and know all the claims they’ve ever filed and the injuries claimed.

I think this one got squirrelly because the slammers would get out of the car and others would get in and make claims. You didn’t have a lot of overlap of claimants and witnesses until the scheme developed for a little bit.

Today, with AI, you could probably sniff it out much quicker with phone records.

So the slammer would have someone else hop in the drivers seat? Sneaky. Probably more feasible in Orleans Parish where the police response time is so long.

I’ve had the same car insurance company for 15 years, but not being in the industry I had no idea if that information was shared or not.

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So the slammer would have someone else hop in the drivers seat?

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From what I’ve read, yes. Slippy may be able to elaborate more but my understanding is they had almost a trail car where they would switch out the slammers with a “driver”/claimant and maybe even someone in the trail car would serve as a “witness” on the accident report. Where they got sloppy was they started interchanging those people and some enterprising associate or adjuster recognized a few names and started digging.

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Wow. People who perpetuate these schemes and get away with them for a period of time probably have the capacity to be intelligent productive citizens. If they only used their powers for good…

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Eh, I wouldn’t go that far. Most of them are dregs looking for a quick buck.

One of the main slammers testified this week that he did it because it was less risky than selling drugs. Like it’s a binary choice

Motta’s boyfriend goes on trial in August for allegedly ordering it. The trigger man has already plead guilty to it and testified against Motta and is scheduled to testify against the boyfriend in August.

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I hope she is acquitted. Too nice of a body to be in jail and she has a kid.

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She has two kids ( IMDB). But there is a view that she got pregnant with the second one because she know the feds were getting ready to pounce, and she thought it would make her more sympathetic, and/or that the second baby daddy (Alfortish) would have an incentive to protect her instead of potentially roll over on her. If you start rewarding that despicable kind of behavior, then you'll get more of it.