Hazelwood, Wombold, Jones get new trial
Judge Curtis L. Collier (above)
The guilty verdict was reversed Thursday by the Federal Appeals Court in Cincinnati.
The defendants are:
Mark Hazelwood
Scott Wombold
Heather Jones
They were convicted of stealing $20,213,789 from their customers in a rebate scam.
They used to work for Pilot Flying J selling diesel and fracking fuels.
The case goes back to Judge Curtis L. Collier, the trial judge.
To be retried.
In the Federal District Court of Chattanooga, Tennessee.
https://www.tned.uscourts.gov/content/curtis-l-collier-senior-united-states-district-judge
The court’s 40-page opinion is linked here:
Details of the jury verdicts are linked in these stories: