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Former Pilot Flying J staffer implicates ex-president Mark Hazelwood in fraud scheme

After hours of cross-examination in the ongoing Pilot Flying J fraud trial Tuesday, Holly S. Radford refused to budge on two assertions – that what was going on within a sales division of the truck stop giant was wrong, and that former President Mark Hazelwood knew about it.

“Everyone knew about it,” Radford, a former regional account representative with Pilot Flying J, testified Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Chattanooga. “It was known, and it was generally accepted … I always knew it was wrong. If you blatantly put in a different discount to deceive them, I believe that’s wrong.”

“Did you think Mark Hazelwood knew what was going on?” asked attorney Rusty Hardin, who represents Hazelwood.

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