A federal magistrate judge is refusing to allow former Pilot Flying J President Mark Hazelwood to upend his defense team less than three months before he faces prison unless he can prove he's not trying to delay his fate.
Hazelwood is staring down the barrel of a prison term of as much as two decades for his role as chief among a band of thieving sales executives at the nation's largest diesel fuel retailer that cheated trucking companies of at least $56.5 million and as much as $85 million in five years.
He faces sentencing Aug. 22 in the Chattanooga courtroom of U.S. District Judge Curtis Collier on convictions including conspiracy to commit wire fraud.
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