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4 former Pilot Flying J employees plead guilty in fuel rebate scheme

Published: 21 Sep 2017 22:54:57 Z

Four former Pilot Flying J employees appeared in federal court Thursday afternoon in Chattanooga to formally enter guilty pleas in the company's multimillion-dollar fuel rebate scam. The four are John "Stick" Freeman, former vice president of sales; ...
Ex-employee, Pilot president among key witnesses to testify

Published: 11 Jan 2018 12:54:46 Z

A former Pilot Flying J fuel salesman who said he felt bad about cheating customers and the man promoted to company president in a shakeup were among the key witnesses testifying Wednesday as a federal fraud trial resumed in Chattanooga. Kevin Clark ...
Feds propose method for sentencing 17 ex-Pilot employees in scam

Published: 04 Mar 2018 17:54:21 Z

Prosecutors think a federal judge should first sentence three former Pilot Flying J employees convicted in a diesel fuel fraud scheme and then follow a sentencing order for other ex-employees based on how deeply they took part in the scam, documents ...
Fuel rebate scheme trial for former Pilot Flying J employees set for November 6

Published: 01 Nov 2017 20:23:01 Z

The criminal trial for four former Pilot Flying J employees accused in the company's multi-million dollar fuel rebate scheme has been delayed by one week. The four former employees, including former Pilot President Mark Hazelwood, were set stand ...
Ex-president of Pilot Flying J objects to being labeled most guilty in $56.5M fraud scheme

Published: 14 Mar 2018 14:11:46 Z

Defense attorneys are crying foul over the pecking order in federal prosecutors' court-ordered ranking of 17 former employees of the nation's largest diesel fuel retailer by the level of responsibility for a $56.5 million scheme to defraud truckers. ...
Recordings of former Pilot Flying J execs detail racist, vulgar exchange

Published: 09 Mar 2018 04:32:19 Z

Newly released documents obtained by WBIR show just how explicit and vulgar conversations were between Pilot Flying J executives during a lake trip in 2012 . The recordings were played for the jury during the federal fraud trial involving four former ...
Judge releases racially charged recordings in Pilot case

Published: 09 Mar 2018 00:41:18 Z

A federal judge has agreed to release several secretly recorded and racially charged conversations involving former Pilot Flying J President Mark Hazelwood and other company executives. Judge Curtis Collier issued two orders Wednesday authorizing the ...
Records: Diesel fuel sales brought big bucks for some Pilot employees

Published: 11 Jan 2018 22:47:08 Z

Selling diesel fuel to trucking firms could be very lucrative for some Pilot Flying J employees, testimony Thursday showed. Calling a Pilot payroll manager to the stand Thursday morning, prosecutor Trey Hamilton elicited testimony about the pay for ...
Jury finds Hazelwood, Jones guilty of conspiracy in Pilot Flying J fraud trial

Published: 16 Feb 2018 16:15:42 Z

A federal jury on Thursday convicted the former president of the nation's largest diesel fuel retailer of a plot to rip off truckers to boost both his own bottom line and that of his employer, Pilot Flying J. A five-woman, seven-man jury in U.S. ...
Judge: It was proper for jury to hear racially charged recordings in Pilot case

Published: 30 Jan 2018 22:55:04 Z

The federal judge presiding over the fraud trial for four former Pilot Flying J employees says it was relevant and acceptable for jurors to hear racially charged recordings involving the former Pilot president. U.S. District Court Judge Curtis ...
Fraud trial for ex-Pilot employees set to start

Published: 05 Nov 2017 23:19:11 Z

More than four years after a federal raid at Pilot Flying J headquarters, the trial for the truck stop giant's former president and three other former employees begins Monday in U.S. District Court in Chattanooga. The trial for Mark Hazelwood, Scott ...
Judge ponders request to release racially charged recordings

Published: 15 Jan 2018 23:07:01 Z

UPDATE: 7:30 PM Friday: A federal judge said Friday afternoon he's taking "under advisement" a request by WBIR, the News Sentinel and several other media organizations that he release secretly recorded and racially charged conversations involving ...
Judge refuses to declare mistrial over racially charged evidence

Published: 14 Feb 2018 15:35:08 Z

A federal judge is formally confirming what he's already said several times: The introduction of racially charged tape recordings is not grounds for a mistrial in the fraud trial of Pilot Flying J's former president and three sales employees.
Pilot Flying J fraud trial nearing end

Published: 01 Feb 2018 17:42:14 Z

After a long three months, the federal fraud trial for four former Pilot Flying J employees suddenly is speeding to a close. On Wednesday, government prosecutors formally announced they were done presenting evidence.