3 ex-staff of truck stops controlled by Haslams convicted

[rk911]

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2018/02/15/2-guilty-conspiracy-in-pilot-flying-j-case.html

[jplante4]

Old news
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[Larry-D]

Let's also remember that this was the same company that was heavily fined for price gouging during the hurricane Katrina evacuations going up I-75 in Tennessee.

[enblethen]

If I remember there is still a consumer law suit!

[drsteve]

Dutch_12078 wrote:
Maybe now this ~5 year old story that involved no harm to the general public can finally be put to rest. In a few years the Haslam family will be turning majority ownership of PFJ over to Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway anyway.

They committed criminal fraud by stealing money from their customers. Lots of crimes don't involve harm to the general public.

[wa8yxm]

Dutch_12078 wrote:
Maybe now this ~5 year old story that involved no harm to the general public can finally be put to rest. In a few years the Haslam family will be turning majority ownership of PFJ over to Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway anyway.

Well if Mr. Buffet is taking over I expect good things for he appears to be a good man but...

"No harm to the general public"

As I understand this involved Pilot/Flyning-J signing up trucking companies to re-fill at a Discount and then hijacking the discounts. (Holding up the rebate checks so they could use the money for a period and actually earn thousands and thousand of dollars in either reduced insterest payments on loans or on investments)

The problem here is the trucking companies also have financial obligations,.

The cost of transport is part of the cost of everything you buy

SO this scam DIRECTLY Impacted the cost of your RV, the cost of your Car, even the cost of a loaf of bread at the supermarkewt.

HOW can you say that it "involved no harm to the general public"?

For it very cearly DID harm the general public, the government, and most every corporation in the country.. A major crime indeed.

[Dutch_12078]

Maybe now this ~5 year old story that involved no harm to the general public can finally be put to rest. In a few years the Haslam family will be turning majority ownership of PFJ over to Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway anyway.

[enblethen]

Here is a link
Flying J convictions

[Campinfan]

I agree

[gbopp]

You may want to check your link.

[Lwiddis]

Those dam Haslams! Very disheartening.