If Pilot Flying J's top leaders knew its sales executives were cheating customers, why all the code talk, an attorney for the truck stop giant's former president asked Wednesday.
Attorney Rusty Hardin, who represents former Pilot Flying J President Mark Hazelwood on charges he plotted with subordinates to rip off trucking firms of promised discounts on diesel fuel, repeatedly sought Wednesday to discredit the testimony of one of the government's key witnesses against his client.
That witness – former director of national accounts Brian Mosher – has throughout his testimony in U.S. District Court in Chattanooga pointed to both Hazelwood and Pilot Flying J Chief Executive Officer Jimmy Haslam in the five-year, $92 million fraud scheme.
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