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Pilot Flying J’s former president indicted in fuel rebate withholding scheme
Court records include transcripts of conversations — secretly recorded by an FBI informant working for Pilot — held between Hazelwood and other Pilot employees allegedly discussing the scam and how to use it against trucking companies who signed diesel fuel purchasing contracts with the truck stop chain.
February 9, 2016
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Pilot CEO asks court to toss lawsuits against him in fuel scam cases
Just a month after two carriers amended their lawsuits against Pilot to accuse the company’s head man Jimmy Haslam of leading the scheme to defraud carriers, Haslam has asked the court to dismiss the complaints against him.
December 17, 2014
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Former Pilot Flying J president targeted by prosecutors in fuel rebate scam, report says
Federal authorities are investigating former Pilot Flying J President Mark Hazelwood over his potential involvement in the fuel rebate withholding case that has rocked the company the last year and a half, according to a local news report.
September 25, 2014
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Judge orders Pilot, trucking companies to settle fuel rebate lawsuits at November meeting
Pilot Flying J and the seven trucking companies who opted out of a 2013 class-action settlement with the company to sue it separately will meet Nov. 19 to negotiate a settlement.
September 2, 2014
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Judge sends outstanding Pilot Flying J lawsuits to mediation
The seven outstanding lawsuits filed against Pilot Flying J over its fuel rebate withholding scheme have been ordered to mediation, where the trucking companies who opted out of the fuel provider and truck stop chain’s class-action settlement will seek to reach a separate settlement with Pilot.
August 1, 2014
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Pilot Flying J agrees to $92 million criminal settlement in fraudulent fuel rebate case
Pilot Flying J has entered into an agreement with the U.S. Justice Department to resolve the criminal investigation into the company’s fraudulent rebate withholding scheme, agreeing to pay a $92 million fine. That’s in addition to the $85 million civil settlement from November.
July 14, 2014
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Pilot VP of sales fired 13 months after implication in fuel rebate scheme
Pilot Flying J’s Vice President of Sales, John Freeman, has been fired by the truck stop chain and fuel provider, a source has confirmed with Overdrive. The departure comes in the wake of the alleged fraudulent rebate withholding scam that has rocked the company the last 14 months.
June 2, 2014
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Pilot Flying J president leaves the company
Pilot Flying J President Mark Hazelwood is no longer with the company, a source close to the investigation has told Overdrive. Hazelwood is one of the company’s executives named in a 120-page federal affidavit released last April that points to potential involvement in a fraudulent fuel rebate withholding scheme.
May 20, 2014
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Remaining lawsuits against Pilot Flying J consolidated, transferred to Kentucky
The seven outstanding lawsuits against Pilot Flying J in the wake of the company’s alleged fuel rebate withholding scheme have been consolidated and transferred to a federal district court in Kentucky, according to court documents.
April 11, 2014
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Pilot asks court to consolidate fuel rebate lawsuits, hearing set for March 27
A judicial panel will hear argument Thursday, March 27, on a request by Pilot Flying J to consolidate seven of the remaining 17 lawsuits against the fuel provider and truck stop chain and transfer them to a federal court in East Tennessee.
February 25, 2014
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Three more Pilot employees enter guilty pleas for fraud, conspiracy in alleged rebate scheme
Three more Pilot Flying J employees have pleaded guilty to fraud or conspiracy charges surrounding accusations that the company systematically cheated trucking companies out of millions in owed fuel rebates over a seven-year period.
January 28, 2014
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Pilot says it’s paid 95% of 5,500 trucking companies in its $85M settlement
Pilot Flying J said this week that by Dec. 31, 2013, it had paid 95 percent of the companies it owed money to in its $85 million settlement with 5,500 trucking companies that an Arkansas court approved in November.
January 17, 2014
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