Mark Hazelwood to testify against Jimmy Haslam?
JW Johnson is Ex.V.P. of the NFL’s Cleveland Browns (above). He is Jimmy & Dee Haslam’s son-in-law.
https://www.clevelandbrowns.com/team/front-office-roster/
https://www.salisburyschool.org/online-magazine-home/go-knights
Mark Hazelwood was former President of Pilot Flying J.
He was the brains who made the company billions.
Through 750 truck stops.
Now it is over 1200.
Pilot sells more diesel fuel than any competitor.
It also sells fracking fuel.
Yesterday, the judge dismissed all charges against Hazelwood.
https://ecf.tned.uscourts.gov/doc1/16715007172
Even though a jury found Mark guilty of stealing $10,405,836 from his customers.
And he was sentenced to 12 and a half years in jail.
Pilot paid restitution.
Mark Hazelwood has nothing to lose by testifying against his former boss.
Jimmy Haslam.
Mark can be compelled to testify because he is no longer a defendant.
Even if it is against his will.
As a former company insider, Hazelwood may have become the prosecution’s star witness.
He can move out of the country to avoid testifying.
Or prosecutors miss the filing deadline of April 15th, 2023 and the case ends.
Up until then, Jimmy Haslam can be charged.
And so can other family members who used to work for Pilot.
They are Jimmy’s:
son-in-law, JW Johnson
wife, Dee
daughter, Whitney
Pilot has paid over a billion dollars to settle the dozens of lawsuits filed against them for fraud.
As the company’s CEO, Haslam admitted in writing that Pilot:
stole $56 million from 5600 customers
cooked the books to conceal the theft
paid a fine of $92 million
reimbursed the Justice Department for forensic auditing costs of $12 million
Only Pilot knows what they paid in attorneys fees.
https://www.justice.gov/usao-edtn/pr/pilot-flying-j-enters-criminal-enforcement-agreement
Jimmy signed an admission of corporate guilt as Pilot's CEO imaged here dated July 10th, 2014:
Page 40 marked C4 out of 41 pages
Jimmy had to sell Pilot to billionaire Warren Buffett.
In order to buy the Cleveland Browns, a professional football team.
No one in his family got immunity.
https://brassballs.blog/home/haslam-never-granted-immunity-remains-subject-to-criminal-prosecution
The National Football League (NFL) knew about the charges against Pilot.
They allowed the Haslams to buy the Browns anyway.
On Oct. 25th, 2012.
Without objection.
https://www.cleveland.com/browns/2012/10/jimmy_haslam_is_new_cleveland.html
JW Johnson (above), Jimmy & Dee Haslam’s son-in-law
https://www.salisburyschool.org/online-magazine-home/go-knights
JW Johnson, far left, and Mark Hazelwood, with a mustache. The photo was taken by the AP on Oct. 11th, 2011, at a company-sponsored event of Pilot Flying J.
Federal prosecutors have a copy of Jimmy Haslam’s sworn statement made under oath dated Dec. 13th, 2016.
The case, 15-CV-9849, is in Franklin County Common Pleas Court in Columbus, Ohio.
It is FST Express Inc. versus Pilot Travel Centers LLC also known as Pilot Flying J and Pilot Corporation.
https://brassballs.blog/home/why-does-haslams-deposition-remain-a-secret
Tips from Jamie Satterfield in Knoxville, Tennessee.
And Chip Cooper in Columbus, Ohio.
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