Browns owner Jimmy Haslam resisting order to testify in Pilot Flying J case

Browns owner Jimmy Haslam resisting order to testify in Pilot Flying J case

Cleveland Browns buyer Jimmy Haslam has been ordered to affirm in a case adjoin the barter stop alternation Pilot Flying J. He has asked an Alabama adjudicator to abandon the degradation order.

Haslam is aswell the CEO of Pilot Flying J, which is getting sued for an declared agent ammunition abatement scheme.

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Haslam's advocate filed the motion to amend backward Friday in the civilian case of Wright Transportation v. Pilot Flying J afterwards the judge’s adjustment came beforehand in the day, according to the Tennessean.

Friday's adjustment from Circuit Cloister Adjudicator Sarah Hicks Stewart accustomed on the three-year ceremony of the FBI raiding the Pilot Flying J's Knoxville headquarters, the Tennessean reported.

In his brief, Joseph McCorkle Jr. said Haslam’s acknowledged aggregation was "puzzled" by the adjustment because the plaintiff's address is "riddled with absolute and procedural errors." Haslam's attorney's aswell declared the accomplishment to depose the Browns buyer a "thinly-disguised accomplishment to access analysis to be acclimated in the action adjoin him, wherever it ends up."

Wright Transportation, which is based in Alabama, is one of several companies suing Pilot Flying J because of an declared betray that created affected rebates for customers. The lawsuit, aboriginal filed in 2014, says Pilot Flying J "cooked the books in adjustment to accord Wright and added barter the apocryphal actualization of accepting a abatement while in absoluteness Pilot skimmed the money for itself and to pay abundant bonuses and allowances to its officers, managers and employees."

The cloister is gluttonous to acquisition out whether or not the company's CEO knew about the counterfeit scheme. Haslam has aswell resisted orders to affirm in added civilian cases adjoin the company.

"Of hundreds of cases resolved, this is one of alone several unresolved," a agent for Pilot Flying J said, via the Tennessean. "There is annihilation Mr. (Jimmy) Haslam can add to what has become a abiding action by this company."

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